Academy
05
Jun
Our chief developer makes recent trips to our production facilities to stay up to date with production processes and the natural evolut...
25
May
BLACK SLALOM TIPS: Boom Height
Are you 190 tall? Place your boom at 150. Are you 180 tall? Place your boom at 140. This would be excessively easy!
The boom height is ...
22
May
Excess baggage travels
Our Black Team travel the world with huge heavy windsurfing bags on monthly bases, if not weekly. They turn up to the check in of the a...
12
May
How to downhaul a sail with a simple knot!
We have really seen a lot of different ways from people to downhaul the sail. Especially if using slalom sails where there is more powe...
08
May
Andrea prepares for Defi Wind
As the 2018 edition of the Defi-Wind is approaching, our Black Sheep Team picked Andrea Cucchi´s brain for info on how it was when he w...
07
May
The first PWA experience
Ever wondered how it would be starting in your first ever PWA World Cup event? We asked our riders which experiences they went through ...
06
May
Board volume & sail size
There are board volumes every 5 -10 litres in slalom boards. Which are then used on different type of slalom or slalomfreeride sails, s...
23
Apr
Freestyle sail for waves
Can you use a freestyle sail in the waves? We asked our riders who gave us their straight answers based on their day to day sailing:
R...
19
Apr
What do you bring for racing?
You go to a race, and you need to be sure to have all the vital stuff to do your job good. This time we are not talking about gear, whi...
14
Apr
Taking notes
It's true to think that to become a good windsurfer you need to practice a lot, and true that some people might have more talent than o...