How many windsurfing sports?

DelCarpenter · Joined: 06 Nov 2008 Posts: 499 Location: Cedar Falls, IA

In my opinion, Windsurfing includes at least 4 different sports: board sailing, bump & jump, wave sailing, and freestyle. (I'm a longtime board sailor with only a little chop riding skill, no jumping or wave sailing experience and no freestyle experience.)

I think a case could be made for counting windsurf racing (whether course or slalom) as a 5th windsurfing sport.

My board sailing is developed enough to include land sailing (snow, ice & parking lot sailing) which requires two very different "boards" and might be regarded as the 6th and 7th windsurfing sports.

All of these sports use universal joints & wishbone booms for sailing. Are there more?

KevinDo · Joined: 02 Jul 2012 Posts: 426 Location: Cabrillo Inside

IF racing gets to be the 5th than speed should be the 6th!

geohaye · Joined: 03 Apr 2000 Posts: 1437

windward1 · Joined: 18 Jun 2000 Posts: 1400

Wave sailing, like its counterpart, surfing, has two distinct categories: Shortboard and Longboard (SUP wave sailing). Often it is different folk doing these two categories, or sub-categories, if you will. They are extremely different although they both deal with windsurfing waves.

J64TWB · Joined: 24 Dec 2013 Posts: 1685

And then there's the sport of just looking at your equipment like I have been doing most of the Summer! It has been a horrible Summer for wind here in Chicago.

nw30 · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2014 4:37 pm Post subject:

7 ) Sand or beach sailing, using a skateboard like board with balloon wheels.

8 ) Ice sailing, same board but with blades on it.

cgoudie1 · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2014 4:45 pm Post subject:

You need to move, I'm on day 44 (of 46), of what a lot of people have called a poor
year in the Gorge. A day counts as better than 45 minutes
planing in at least 1 foot strap, on a 6.7 (used exclusively 1 time this year)
or smaller. I probably won't maintain a 95% average the entire season
(like Guy does) as I usually leave in October. Just for reference, my
average sail size in June was 3.7, in July, 4.7, and so far in August
around 5.2 (yes I am cheap, ergo the 6.7)

Oh, Formula and Slalom are definitely different sports (not that I
currently do either).

-Craig

LeeD · Joined: 12 Jun 2008 Posts: 1175

It never stops.
Formula racing can almost be divided into "light wind" and high wind divisions.
Slalom can be flat water or surf slaloms, although the latter hasn't been raced in a few dozen years.
Wave sailing, do we score wave RIDING or do we score manuevers done in the surf zone? And which get's higher points?
How can we rate bump n jump? Biggest jumps (DaleCook) or trickiest moves?
Is Defi Wind a speed event or a slalom event? It looks more like a huge get together.
And how do we classify he purists? Like those who sail from AgateBeach to the Farallones, or Coyote to Alameda?

kevinkan · Joined: 07 Jun 2001 Posts: 1661 Location: San Francisco

kevinkan · Joined: 07 Jun 2001 Posts: 1661 Location: San Francisco