A Simple Life of Luxury

Tales from a down-shifted family
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Tagged: Forward Loop

Cut Lip 3

Wales / Windsurfing

Forward Loop Crash

Well, if I learnt one thing today, its that slightly over-rotated forward loops can hurt quite a bit! All was going well, the wind was blowing, the waves were pretty big and I was out for a sail all on my own with my little JP Wave board and a 4.5m sail. First run out...

Going Loopy – Pulling the Trigger 2

Windsurfing

Going Loopy – Pulling the Trigger

I’ve just got back from an excellent windsurf session here at Ynyslas. I wandered over to the beach and it didn’t lok great, grey, not that windy and not much in the way of waves either. I rigged my bigger sail, a 5.6m Gun Nexus and decided to give it a go with my Naish...