Waves

Windsurf techniques for waves - wavesailing and jumps

• able Top Pushloop This jump is not a sequence of table top and push loop, but describes an...
• Aerial The aerial is a jump that is launched over the lip of the wave during a...
• Aerial - one handed The balance of the rig is extremely important for one-handed aerials. The back...
• Air Chachoo The air chachoo is a pretty sick move where the sail is shifted in the air like...
• Air Taka An aerial 360-degree turn in the wave - the air version of the taka. While the...
• Backloop The backloop is a kind of backward rotation that is jumped into the wind as a...
• Backloop - one footed A one-footed backloop. Hanging with your weight at the rig, the mast base and...
• Backloop - one handed One-handed is the term used here for a backloop jumped with one hand at the...
• Backloop - one handed/one footed The one-handed and one-footed backloop is the most difficult variant of a...
• Backloop off the Lip The backloop off the lip is a backloop that is jumped as a backside aerial. The...
• Backside 360 A backside 360 is a body, board and sail rotation around 360 degrees, slided on...
• Backside Aerial A backside aerial is a jump out of and back into the wave while riding...
• Backside Cutback A turn to the lip of the wave during a backside wave ride is called a backside...
• Cheese Roll The cheese roll was the first variation of a front loop - a jump in windsurfing...
• Cheese Roll - no handed A hands-free cheese roll. When jumping over the flattened sail, both hands are...
• Crazy Pete The Crazy Pete is basically a half backloop. At the highest point of the jump,...
• Double Forward The double forward is for professionals only. With the double rotation, it’s...
• Double Taka The taka in double version, a 720 degree rotation on the wave around the...
• Floater The floater is a delayed turn at the lip of the wave. Instead of riding a...
• Forward - one footed One-footed frontloop - that’s what you call a frontloop jumped with one foot...
• Forward - one handed The one-handed execution of the forward. The front hand is released from the...
• Forward Loop The forward loop (also: front loop or just forward) is a forward rotation when...
• Forward off the Lip A forward off the lip is a loop initiated from an aerial during a frontside...
• Frontside Cutback The turn at the lip of the wave on the frontside wave ride is called the...
• Frontside Cutback - clew first Shift the sail first and then start the bottom turn and cutback with the clew...
• Frontside Cutback - one handed There are two ways to perform the one-handed frontside cutback. The front or...
• Goiter The goiter is a move in windsurfing. The goiter is jumped during the frontside...
• Goiter - no handed The hands-free version of the goiter. Both hands are released from the boom...
• Goiter - one handed A one-handed goiter. The back hand is released from the boom to rotate this...
• Gu Screw Gu screw is the term for a jump in windsurfing: A 180-degree turn jumped as an...
• Jump Jumping forms the basis for many windsurfing moves. Here you’ll find the...
• Killerloop Killer loop is the name given to a front loop that is jumped vertically over...
• Ocean Jump A move inspired by windskating, a kind of switch stance cheese roll with the...
• Ponch The ponch is nothing more than a goiter that is jumped over a wave when riding...
• Ponch - one handed The one-handed version of the ponch.
  
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• Pushloop The pushloop is a type of backwards loop in which you initiate a turn over the...
• Pushloop into Forward The pushloop into forward (push forward) is a high jumped pushloop that is...
• Reverse The reverse is performed from an over-rotated backside cutback. With a lot of...
• Shove it The shove it is derived from the backside aerial and is jumped over a wave....
• Shove it into Cheese Roll also called 'Twister'
• Spinloop The spinloop is a low, more sideways and very fast rotated frontloop (forward)...
• Stalled Double Forward A delayed double forward loop is called a stalled double forward. Only a few...
• Stalled Forward With the stalled forward, the rotation is only initiated at the highest point...
• Stalled Table Top Double Forward The stalled table top double forward is a delayed jumped double forward loop...
• Table Top The table top is a jump in windsurfing where the bottom of the board is turned...
• Table Top - one handed A one-handed table top. During the jump, one hand is taken off the boom. This...
• Table Top Backloop The table top backloop is a combination of jumps in which an additional table...
• Table Top Double Forward The table top double forward is a double forward loop that is initiated with a...
• Table Top Forward A variation of the forward that is initiated with a table top. The table top is...
• Table Top Pushloop - one handed This one-handed jump is not a sequence of table top and push loop, but...
• Taka A taka is a 360-degree rotation around the vertical mast while a frontside wave...
• Taka Diablo The taka diablo is a taka in which the sail is shifted over the...
• The Klei The klei is a combination of wave 360 and taka. This riding technique content...
• Triple Forward The triple rotated front loop is currently one of the biggest challenges for...
• Triple Taka A triple turned taka. Finding a suitable wave for this move alone is not so...
• Tweaked Aerial The tweaked aerial is a frontside aerial where the body is twisted under the...
• Twister The twister is a shove it into cheese roll. These examples show the twister in...
• Wave 360 The Wave 360 is a 360-degree turn that is performed against the steepest part...
• Wave riding Riding waves is the supreme discipline in windsurfing. Wave riding (windsurfing...