Black Team Tips
How our sail development work
It’s often that sails which are presented on magazines are existing only as a graphical drawing. The real sail does not yet exist. Ju...
FREERIDE SAILS? What does freeride mean?
We have often discussed the differences between Slalom sails. How about freeride sails?
Freeride sails are sails which are not taken i...
The Sri Lanka trip
Our chief developer makes recent trips to our production facilities to stay up to date with production processes and the natural evolut...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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:
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