Windsurfing

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Windsurfing is generally a very safe sport. It is practiced by millions and there are very few deaths associated with it. However, there are dangers depending on the conditions in which you participate. These include hypothermia, drowning, concussion and broken bones. These dangers mostly occur when windsurfing in extreme conditions that include high wind, big surf and shallow reefs. For those who windsurf on mildly windy days on lakes and other protected bodies of water, these risks are quite minimal. Dangers can be minimized further by getting good instruction, staying close to shore, and getting out of the water when the the wind, weather or surf conditions are beyond your abilities.

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Board have Daggerboard to upwind and powerful fin to downwind planing without Daggerboard. These kind of board is Not efficient in both weak and strong wind but they are cheap and easy control. The hybrid board was popular after the introduction of Mistral Prodigy in later 1990s. The typical hybrid board nowadays is A kind Neil Pryde RS:X and Bic Techno 293 OD.

First of all, are you talking about windsurfing or kitesurfing. The two sports sound similar but are very different. In kitesurfing, as the name suggests, the rider has a large power kite, which you fly in the air to provide you with power. In kitesurfing, you have a small, thin board on your feet. In windsurfing, the rider has a large, thick board with a sail 3 or 4 metres high directly mounted onto it. The rider stands on the board and holds the sail, angling it into the wind to control the amount of power. Windsurfing is effectively sailing on a board instead of in a boat, whilst kitesurfing is using a kite to create power.

If you are talking about kitesurfing, individual kites range from £200 to £1000 depending on condition, make and size.

Windsurfing rigs cost around a few hundred pounds, again depending on condition, make and size.

the largest commercial sails are currently at 12.5m square in size companies such as neilpryde have their range of the rs:6 going up to this size howevere the largest custom sails are anywhere up to 15/16m square, these are not available to but though

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Barbara Kendall of New Zealand won gold, Zhang Xiaodong of China won silver, and Dorien de Vries of Netherlands won bronze.

It's the strong flexible rod that vertically holds the sail in place. Attached to this is the boom that the windsurfer will hold onto.