Becoming the Best Windsurfer You Can Be - A Book Review
How would you like to become the world's best windsurfer? Well then, how would you like to be an extremely excellent windsurfer, so you could enjoy the thrill and exhilaration of the sport? If so, I'd like to recommend a very good book to you, one that has all the information you'll ever need to know about windsurfing.
The name of the book is; "Windsurfing - Improving Techniques" by Ben Oakley, 1987.
Although this book was written well before the latest technology in windsurfing it is excellent, and most of the fundamentals are there.
I would recommend every windsurfer read this book.
The author, Ben is a windsurfing coach and he's well known for his work and is often quoted in "Windsurfing Magazine USA" The art of learning technique is much different than the diagrams and pictures, as you have to get a feel for it; you have to become one with the waves and the wind.
The author explains the essence and the feeling, and tries to explain how the windsurfer must mold themselves to be part of and work with the forces of nature.
He also explains that you cannot always learn gradually especially in this environment, sometimes on a challenging day you end up learning a lot, the hard way.
If you learn in flat water with strong winds for instance and then move to a choppy river with strong currents everything changes.
If you are windsurfing in ocean waves it's a huge difference.
He has some very good advice in the book for instance you must trust your equipment and never blame it, think of it as an extension of your body.
Practice makes perfect, and if you're going to be out there for hours on end you're going to have to do some self coaching, but you better make it fun, because that's what it's all about.
When you first start you need to buy a big board with a beginner sale and then eventually advanced to a wave sail.
The author warns to be careful buying used equipment but if you are serious about the sport and you plan on moving up right away perhaps, you should go for it because you aren't going to own that board very long anyway.
Please consider all this.
The name of the book is; "Windsurfing - Improving Techniques" by Ben Oakley, 1987.
Although this book was written well before the latest technology in windsurfing it is excellent, and most of the fundamentals are there.
I would recommend every windsurfer read this book.
The author, Ben is a windsurfing coach and he's well known for his work and is often quoted in "Windsurfing Magazine USA" The art of learning technique is much different than the diagrams and pictures, as you have to get a feel for it; you have to become one with the waves and the wind.
The author explains the essence and the feeling, and tries to explain how the windsurfer must mold themselves to be part of and work with the forces of nature.
He also explains that you cannot always learn gradually especially in this environment, sometimes on a challenging day you end up learning a lot, the hard way.
If you learn in flat water with strong winds for instance and then move to a choppy river with strong currents everything changes.
If you are windsurfing in ocean waves it's a huge difference.
He has some very good advice in the book for instance you must trust your equipment and never blame it, think of it as an extension of your body.
Practice makes perfect, and if you're going to be out there for hours on end you're going to have to do some self coaching, but you better make it fun, because that's what it's all about.
When you first start you need to buy a big board with a beginner sale and then eventually advanced to a wave sail.
The author warns to be careful buying used equipment but if you are serious about the sport and you plan on moving up right away perhaps, you should go for it because you aren't going to own that board very long anyway.
Please consider all this.
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