What began in the late 1990s at legendary competitions such as the "King of the Lake" on Lake Garda has developed into one of the most dynamic disciplines in windsurfing today: Freestyle means tricks, slides, loops and other jumps on flat water. In the early days, it was mainly gliding manoeuvres such as jibes and first jumps that were shown, but since then the level has gone through the roof and new tricks are being invented and combined almost daily.
The boards are just as special as the manoeuvres. Freestyle boards are characterised by the following features:
Freestyle boards are specialist boards for specialists! You can savour the advantages especially when sliding and rotating - if you want to practise flaka, spock or even more difficult tricks or can already do them, a freestyle board always makes sense.
If you neither know nor can do moves like Spock, Culo or Kono, you don't need to think about this board group. Why? The disadvantages on the straights are immense for non-freestylers - poor upwind performance, loss of guidance from the short fin and lower speed potential quickly make a board in this group a bad buy. In this case, it's worth taking a look at board groups such as Freestyle Wave or Freemove, where you can get boards that also do the first freestyle tricks, but are noticeably faster and better in a straight line.
Ideal sails for this board group:Freestyle sails, wave sails
