I have been windsurfing for several years now, working on my stance, gybes, waterstarts. I have been able to improve quite a bit. But there is one thing I feel like I still have a long way to go - proper rigging.

The following scene might be familiar: a perfect day for windsurfing - wind is not to strong, water not too choppy, it’s not cold yet, it’s a weekend. You race down to the beach, and what you want to do,more than everything else, is get into the water and start working on your waterstart or gybe. You spend as little time as possible rigging.

You get into the water, and five minutes into your session, your forearms start hurting, you feel overpowered,you keep crashing.. There is a good chance all these things happen because you did not rig properly.

If you think about it, one of the things that seperats advanced sailors from intermediates from beginners is proper rigging. Proper rigging will do for you the most important thing - give you more time in the water.

W e must start at the beginning, so we will just start with the simple technique of rigging.

Before we go into all the details, watch this short clip. In our next post, we will explain in details how to implement the riggingtechnique from the clip.

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