How to set-up a board and rigg
Tips for the beginners

1. Brief introduction how to set-up a board and rigg, and how to store and transport it on the car or on your way to the water. Set-up (english) (german) & transport (english) (german)
   (worldofwindsurfing.net)
   

2. Tips from the UK ‘boards’ magazine (english)
   

3. Basics technique from boardseeker.com (english)
   

4. Tips from Peter Hart (english)
   Carving, chop hops, waterstart, correct positioning etc.
   

Manouevres
Find out more about the different moves, starting with the beachstart, uphaul, tacks and jibes further on to more advanced moves like Duck Jibe, Heli Tack, the numerous freestyle move and loops in the wave.

1. Videos of basic moves at continentseven.com (english)
   (beachstart, uphaul, steering, tacking, jibing, waterstart)
   

2. Find more moves on continentseven.com, ranging further from intermediate to professional levels
   (incl. 360, Aerial Jibe, Duck jibe,  Chop Hop, Heli Tack, Body Drag, Push Tack, Slam Jibe, Willy Skipper, Grubby and lots of loops and other moves) (english)
   

Magazines
Collection of Online Magazine (professional and private)

1. Allosurf.net - french page focused on the weather forecast, but with comprehensive surf and windsurf/kitesurf spot guide (french) spot guide (french)
   

2. Boards - the UK (print) magazine (english)
   Travel reports, equipment tests, tour reports and a good beach finder for the UK
   

3. Boardseeker.com - very good free equipment tests, technique, reports, videos, pics (english)
   

4. Daily dose - one of the best German magazine with lots of infos, pics, videos and a very good second hand platform to acquire new gear or sell old stuff (german)
   

5. Directwind.com - french magazin (french)
   

6. Free Magazine - surfing, windsurfing and kiting (german)
   

7. French windsurfing blog - planchemag (french)
   

8. Stehsegelrevue - one of the earlier online platforms, different style, but with similar content as dailydose, a bit less stylish in our opinion(german)
   

9. Surf Magazin - the german (print) magazine (german)
   

10. Totalwind.net - spanish web magazine and forum (spanish)
    

11. Windmag - also very nice french windsurf magazine with cool pics and videos (french)
    

12. Windsurfers.de - reports, pics and videos about windsurfing (german)
    

13. Windsurf Journal - french page with pics, spot guide etc. (french)
    

14. Windsurfing.co.uk - the UK (print) magazine (english)
    Equipment tests, tour and travel reports and the best and most comprehensive beach finder for the UK (english)   beach finder (english)
    

Private Webpages

Links to some surf enthusiast

1. oase.com - lots of links for windsurfer, kitesurfer etc. (english/german)
   

2. River Rippers - windsurfing on rivers (english)
   

3. Soulrider.com - Surf Forum and surf spot page. Cool videos and photos (german)
   

4. Thorsten Indra - windsurfing photographer (english)
   

5. windlords - windsurfing blog (german)
   

6. windsurf gallery - lots of pics incl. heli shots and mast mounts (english/french)
   

Classes & Associations
International

1. EFPT - European Freestyle Pro Tour (english)
   Includes profile of riders and link list to their private pages (english)
   

2. Formular Experience (english)
   

3. IFCA - International Funboard Association (english)
   

4. IMO - International Mistral Class Association (english)
   

5. International Raceboard Class (english)
   

6. ISWC - International Speed Windsurfing Class (english)
   

7. IWA - International Windsurfing Association (english)
   

8. PWA - Professional Windsurfers Association (english)
   

9. RS:ONE - Racing Class (english)
   

10. Techno293 Class (english)
    
    

National

1. Associazione Italiana Classi Windsurf (italian)
   

2. Australian Windsurfing (english)
   

3. Austrian Windsurfing (german)
   

4. Dansk Brætsejler Organisation (Danish Boardsailer Organisation) (danish)
   

5. Deutsche Windsurfing Vereinigung (DSWV) (german)
   

6. Funboard Spain (spanish)
   

7. Finnish Boardsailing Association (finnish/english/swedish)
   

8. Fédération Française de Voile (french)
   

9. Nederlandse Vereniging van Wedstrijdsurfers (NVW) (dutch)
   

10. Polish Windsurfing Asscoiation (polish)
    

11. Svenska Vindsurfing Förbundet (swedish)
    

12. UK Windsurfing Association (english)
    

13. US Windsurfing Association (english)
    

History and technical design

Windsurfing background: Brands & Shaper
(soon to come)