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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]
Wakesurfing differs from other wake sports in that the boat does not tow a rider (continuously). The rider uses a tow rope to help them get up in the wake. After doing so, they drop the rope and then ride the wake as they would when surfing. The rider is also much closer to the boat than with other water sports such as wakeboarding.
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.
Professional Windsurfers Association; see Windsurfing; Prairie Wrestling Alliance, a Canadian professional wrestling promotion based in Edmonton; Reality of Wrestling or Pro Wrestling Alliance, a US independent professional wrestling promotion; Pro Wrestling America, a defunct independent professional wrestling promotion
RS:X is a windsurfing class selected by the ISAF [1] to replace the Mistral One Design Class for the 2008 Summer Olympics.The discipline has similarities to Formula Windsurfing - mainly in that the equipment used was designed to allow windsurfing in low and moderate wind conditions with good performance.
Jeff Rowley Merry Beach, New South Wales, 2013. Surfing was brought to Australia in 1915 by Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku. [6] He demonstrated this ancient Hawaiian board riding technique at Freshwater (or Harbord) in Sydney, New South Wales.
Jim Drake, Inventor of Windsurfing. Jim Drake (1929 – 2012) was an American aeronautical engineer who is widely credited with the invention of the sport of Windsurfing.He patented his windsurfing concept in 1968.
Jim Drake's wing invention 1982. The history of wing foiling, or simply "winging" begins with the invention of pre-hydrofoil technology wing surfing dating back to 1981, when aeronautical engineer Jim Drake, who also invented windsurfing, [4] and Uli Stanciu, European windsurfing pioneer, together invented and patented the world's first wing. [5]