Advanced Windsurfing

Learn how to sail in a bigger breeze and take on beachstarting!

Appropriate for ages 14 and up. This course will show you how to refine your skills on our high performance equipment.

The course includes all necessary equipment, including a wetsuit (and a textbook, if applicable). Besides our certified instructors helping you be ready to get into the harness and footstraps, you’ll also learn about advanced equipment selection and tuning, advanced self-rescue, fast (shortboard) tacks, and pivot jibes.

You’ll learn the following skills:

• Using a Harness, Advanced Safety & Self-Rescue

• Handling of a Performance Board in High Wind Conditions

• Equipment – Choosing the Right High Performance Gear

• High Wind Handling – Carve Step Jibing, Jumping, Looping

• Beach Launching, Fast Tacks, Backwind Sailing, and more…

Prerequisites: Successful completion of Intermediate Windsurfing course (or its equivalent). Students must be comfortable swimming and treading water.

What To Bring

Students should bring comfortable clothes, a bathing suit to wear under the wetsuit provided, a jacket or fleece, a towel, lots of sun protection, a lanyard to secure their glasses around their heads, a bottle of water, and non-skid/non-marking shoes to wear while windsurfing (they will get WET – tennis shoes, aqua socks, or Teva sandals work great).

Important: Please arrive 10-15 minutes before your class to check in.