Freeride

Basic moves and tricks for freeriding on flat water

• 360 When planing you initiate a jibe, but keep holding the sail flat and try to...
• Backwind Duck Jibe The backwind duck jibe is a mixture of duck tack and duck jibe. After changing...
• Backwind Jibe With this jibe variant, you step around the front of the mast to the other side...
• Bender The Bender is a variant of the Carving 360 where the sail is put on the water...
• Body Drag With the body drag, the feet are completely detached from the windsurfing board...
• Donkey Jibe The Donkey Jibe is a duck jibe with following 360-degree body and sail...
• Duck Jibe The duck jibe (duck gybe) is a variation of the jibe where you lean the rig...
• Duck Tack A quick tack where you turn to an upwind course and dive under the clew of the...
• Heli Tack The heli tack is a tack in which the sail is rotated upwind. Because of this...
• Heli Tack - clew first The Heli Tack in the clew-first version. First shift the sail, then push the...
• Heli Tack - no handed In this variant of the heli tack, both hands are released from the boom shortly...
• Power Jibe The power jibe is the standard among changes of riding direction and at the...
• Push Tack With the push tack, the sail is pushed against the wind when it is tacked and...
• Shortboard Tack This fast version of a tack starts from full planing speed and is an important...
• Slam Jibe The slam jibe is a fast jibe variant for changing course quickly in tight...
• Step Jibe The step jibe is the easiest variation of the power jibe to learn. You can find...
• Upwind 360 The upwind 360 is a 360-degree turn of the board and sail in windward direction...