Windsurfing: Step by Step to Success offers comprehensive coverage of shortboard sailing techniques and equipment, and is aimed at everyone from the first-timer learning waterstart and gybe to the expert sailor attempting the latest moves. An experienced windsurfing instructor gives simple hints on mastering each manoeuver and has produced an exciting array of color photographs which make up detailed instructional sequences for more than 30 shortboard moves. The book also contains a study of top sailors as they perform complex moves, including forward and backward loops. With advice on buying boards, sails, and fins; tips on rigging; and notes on health for windsurfers, this is the ideal manual on a very popular hobby.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A book about everything,
By Andrey Burya (Russia, Moscow) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Windsurfing: Step by Step to Success (Paperback)
Author quickly explains short board fundamentals - water start (in detail), clew water start, etc.
Then he shows common freestyle tricks - helicopter, sail 360 and others with lots of photos but little text (5-7 pictures for a move with short titles). These explanations are like that can be easily found in the Internet. Other subjects - jumps, loops, wave riding described in the same manner. This book is pretty out of date now, so modern tricks are not explained (spock, volcano ...). It is of course not a beginner book but probably it can be useful for more advanced sailors. My opinion that it is better to buy 2-3 windsurfing videos than this book.
6 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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This is a must!,
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This review is from: Windsurfing: Step by Step to Success (Paperback)
Its just great...its a must for every surfer with a desire to learn more....
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The first record that I can find of anybody windsurfing dates back to the 1940s, when Tom Blake, a legendary surfing pioneer from Oahu, Hawaii, first attached a sail to his huge wooden surfboard. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World Cup, Ian Boyd, Robby Naish, Jason Polakow, Bjorn Dunkerbeck, Dave Kalama, Mark Angulo, Erik Beale, Les Saintes Maries de la Mer, Bernie Brandstaetter, Mike Waltz, Peter Thommen New!
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The first record that I can find of anybody windsurfing dates back to the 1940s, when Tom Blake, a legendary surfing pioneer from Oahu, Hawaii, first attached a sail to his huge wooden surfboard. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World Cup, Ian Boyd, Robby Naish, Jason Polakow, Bjorn Dunkerbeck, Dave Kalama, Mark Angulo, Erik Beale, Les Saintes Maries de la Mer, Bernie Brandstaetter, Mike Waltz, Peter Thommen New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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