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If you want to find the true spirit of windsurfing today, ignore the glossy travel brochures of the Caribbean or the Mediterranean. Instead, head to a windswept gravel car park on the South Coast of England or a rugged headland in western Scotland in mid-November. While the rest of the world may have largely traded […]
If you walk down to the beach on a blustery afternoon today, the horizon looks vastly different than it did three decades ago. The sky is a chaotic dance of neon nylon kites, and the water is punctuated by the silent, levitating magic of hydrofoils. Foils and kitesurfing have undeniably won the modern popularity contest. […]
While Hua Hin is globally famous as a premier kitesurfing destination, it has a highly active, fully equipped water sports community that explicitly caters to windsurfing. Because Hua Hin’s beach stretches offer steady cross-shore winds and a mix of shallow lagoons and open water, it is the perfect place to use a high-volume progression board. […]
It is absolutely possible to hire or buy these boards in Thailand! In fact, Thailand is arguably one of the best places in the world to do so. An interesting industry secret is that Thailand is the manufacturing hub of the global windsurfing industry. Almost every major windsurf board brand—including Starboard, JP Australia, and Severne—is […]
Introduction If you spent any time near the water in the 1980s, you remember the neon sails, the zinc-pink noses, and a brand name that practically defined beach culture: Mistral. While high-end race boards like the Mistral Equipe or classic trainers like the Competition took up plenty of real estate in the rental sheds, there […]
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