A basic, comprehensive guide to the latest in boards, equipment, and technique. For beginning and intermediate windsurfers. Chapters on reading the weather and choice surfing destinations worldwide.

Tricktionary is extensive knowledge, along with tips and tricks to learn and enhance manoeuvre techniques. Experienced, professional athletes and coaches demonstrate simple to highly complex movements in a precise and stylish manner. The Windsurfing Tricktionary contains theoretical knowledge, as well as pretty much all the existing topics, tips and tricks for beginners, intermediates and even advanced riders. --

Profiles the sport of windsurfing and the windiest places where the sport is practiced.

The wind is tearing at the sail, and the board is pounding across the waves. Windsurfing is salt spray on your lips, sand between your toes and great times with your friends on the beach. In this book, we get an inside look at windsurfers, their equipment and their competitions. Steffen Kjaer is a journalist and the author of the Action for Kids Series. For a year, he followed a group of young windsurfers, and here they all talk passionately about their sport, their friendships and their big dreams. The book is illustrated with impressive photos.

Combine the thrill, freedom and exhilaration of surfing, skiing and sailing, and you have an understanding of the attraction of windsurfing. This book is the ultimate guide to windsurfing; packed full of information and with photographs by John Carter, it offers a full explanation of equipment, a detailed description of the basic as well as intermediate and advanced techniques, and has specific chapters on planing, sailing smaller boards, gybing, wave sailing and much more. With over 200 great photographs, informative diagrams, a glossary and list of useful addresses, this is the complete guide to the sport.

One of the most popular and exciting water sports in the world, surfing has a rich history dating back to at least the eighteenth century. The International Surfing Association estimates there are more than twenty-three million surfers worldwide. Windsurfing's popularity peaked in 1984, but by the mid-1990s, it began a rapid decline. Today, however, the sport is again gaining momentum, and younger generations are learning what a fun and exciting sport it is. Readers will learn the history of both sports, the skills and equipment needed to participate in them, and how to surf and windsurf safely.

With dozens of full-color photographs, the perfect introduction to the skills and equipment needed to master the sport.