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Gebhardt, a consummate tweaker of gear, also ran hundreds of tech talk clinics and wrote technical "How To" coaching articles for multiple Windsurfing magazines (educating the masses of poleboarders) when not testing/developed windsurfing gear for his sponsors and enjoyed helping to modernize the sports equipment through constant innovation.
A windsurfing waist harness. A windsurfing harness is part of the trapeze used in the sports of windsurfing and kitesurfing to connect the rider to the rig by a line attached to the boom or kitesurfing bar. It consists of a girdle-like contraption that is worn around the body, with a hook for attachment. [1]
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 sport is a hybrid between sailing and surfing.
Drake never stopped innovating. He continued to design cutting edge windsurfing equipment throughout his entire lifetime. During the 1980s and 1990s he produced a wide range of custom board shapes that challenged the status quo and introduced revolutionary short and wide as well as long and narrow board concepts to the sport.
Windsurfing, is a wind-propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing. Windfoiling, is the hydrofoiling variant of windsurfing. It uses a hydrofoil that lifts the board above the water. Wing foiling is a sport where an individual holds a lightweight wing on a surfboard with a hydrofoil.
Windsurfing equipment (3 C, 9 P) W. Windsurfers (9 C, 7 P) Σ. Windsurfing stubs (45 P) Pages in category "Windsurfing" The following 16 pages are in this category ...
This gear was particularly ideal for a broad wind range from five knots to thirty-five knots of wind. Olympic Windsurfing involves 'One Design' boards, each sailor windsurfing with the identical board design, daggerboards, fins and sails. The equipment is specifically selected to allow racing in a wide range of sailing conditions.
The sail and board move at the same speed. With pumping one can sometimes push oneself onto a plane or maintain planing in marginal conditions. But sail and board travel at basically the same speed. This is the main reason why windsurfing requires a lot of equipment. The equipment must match the wind conditions much closer than kiting.