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Windsurfing is a sport involving travel over water on a small 2–4.7 metre board powered by wind acting on a single sail. The sail is connected to the board by a flexible joint. The sail is connected to the board by a flexible joint.
Windsurfing is a wind-propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing. [1] It is also referred to as "sailboarding" and "boardsailing", and emerged in the late 1960s from the Californian aerospace and surf culture. [ 2 ]
Water skiing, a sport where an individual holds onto a rope and handle while being towed across the water while riding one or two water skis. White water rafting, rafting on various classes of river rapids; Windsurfing, is a wind-propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing. Windfoiling, is the hydrofoiling variant of ...
Windsurfing - sailing using a masted sail attached via a gimbal to a surfboard Wing foiling or wingsurfing is a surface watersport where a rider uses a lightweight wing on a surf board with a hydrofoil.
Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore.
Windfoiling (or foil windsurfing) is a surface water sport that is the hydrofoiling evolution of windsurfing, as well as typical sailing boats and sailing hydrofoils. It uses similar equipment to windsurfing with a normal or slightly evolved rig on a normal or specialist foil board.
Rocker: How concave the surface of the board is from nose to tail; Stringer: The line of wood that runs down the center of a board to hold its rigidity and add strength; Tail: The back end of the board; Wax: Specially formulated surf wax that is applied to upper surface of the board to increase the friction so the surfer's feet do not slip off ...
A surface watersport created from a combination of water skiing, snow boarding and surfing techniques. As in water skiing, the rider is towed behind a boat, or a cable skiing setup. Skurfing (1984) Another fast growing boardsport is skurfing a mix of surfing and more conventional water sports in which the participant is towed behind the boat.