How to Avoid High-Speed Windsurfing Crashes
Watch how speed sailors put the brakes on their high-speed windsurfing gear at the 2019 Luderitz Speed Challege, in Namibia. Vincent Valkenaers, Twan Verseput, Bjorn Dunkerbeck, Gunnar Asmussen, Oisin van Gelderen, Pep Bonet and Jim Crossley perform three different methods for stopping boards and sails at high speed. When you're trying to break a speed sailing world record, slowing down a windsurfer at 100 km/h is one of the techniques you need to master. Three different methods can be used: the "S" move, the 360 strategy, and the crash option. Footage by Miriam Rasmussen
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