WindsurfingUK issue 11 June 2019 | Page 9

9 WHAT SHOULD I BE WORKING ON NEXT? WORDS: SIMON BORNHOFT PICS: WINDWISE, LORENZO MITTIGA/KATE OCEAN LEVEL: BEGINNER – IMPROVERS - INTERMEDIATES WHETHER YOU DABBLED WITH WINDSURFING A FEW YEARS AGO, YOU’RE RECENTLY NEW TO THE SPORT OR YOU’RE JUST STRUGGLING TO GET THE BASICS SORTED, YOU‘D DO WELL TO ASK YOURSELF, “WHAT SHOULD I ACTUALLY BE WORKING ON NEXT?” With so much to encounter during the early stages it’s both confusing and often very counter intuitive to work out what is the best use of you time on the water. It’s very easy to slave away making marginal gains, feeling you’re ‘improving’, but in fact you’re developing ‘bad habit’s’ or actually holding back your progression without realising it. If I was learning from scratch again, there are both major changes and subtle hidden actions, skills and principles that I now know are far more important to focus on, and that is exactly what I’m going to share with you now. These are the exact skills to develop early on in your windsurfing career that will help you understand more how the sport works, learn faster and blast into and through the beginner-improver-intermediate stages. So here’s what to focus on next…. uk WIND SURFING