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"Training as a Team"
This feature was the start of my coaching relationship with John Skye. We took this forward into Team Fakefish with Chris Audsley coming onboard and the backing of Kyle McGinn. John and I both learnt huge amounts from this and we still continue to do so as we both mentor each other.
A travel article covering the ‘jewel in the crown’ of all my coaching destinations. It gives you a feel for the place and was my first travel article I wrote for Boards mag. Subsequent trips here have given me a whole lot more opportunities to enjoy a huge array of conditions including some great wavesailing.
How you set up your equipment is of vital importance to all sailors! This focuses on waveboards but the footstrap spread and mastfoot positions ring true for a majority of freeride and freemove sailing. The difference between back and front foot waveriding is also presented with tips and insights from Skyeboy, Audsley, Goya and Louise Emery.
No manoeuvre has received more attention over the last 4 years – the spock and its variants dominatefreestyle contests at national and World Cup level,and you can’t open a windsurfing magazineanywhere without seeing a picture of someonesliding backwards. Here's how I do it...
Often touted as windsurfing’s hardest manoeuvre (at least the hardest proper manoeuvre, we’re not counting
ridiculous freestyle tricks here), the back loop has taken over to some extent from the forward loop as the move
that sets seriously good sailors apart from the rest of us. But you know what? It’s all a bit of a con; back loops aren’t
that scary, and they’re actually pretty easy...