Windsurfing

Windsurfing

Mechanics and design of a windsurfer mast

Published in Steve Haake, The Engineering of Sport, 2020

Before discussing the mast which is the main focus of this paper, it is important to have an understanding of the workings of a windsurfing rig. The standard windsurfing rig consists of four basic components: the sail, the mast, the boom and the mast foot. Other components such as battens and camber inducers may be added to improve aerodynamic entry to reduce drag. Figure 1 indicates a slalom rigs main features.

Key performance indicators of Olympic windsurfers during a World Cup: RS:X class®

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Published in Journal of Sports Sciences, 2022

Israel Caraballo, Raúl Domínguez, Jose Luis Felipe, Antonio Jesús Sánchez-Oliver

Windsurfing is a sport that combines components of surfing and sailing (Andrianopoulos & Vogiatzis, 2017). The first appearance of this sport in the Olympic Games was in Los Angeles in 1984, and it was consolidated as an Olympic discipline in the games of Seoul (1988) and Barcelona (1992) (Chamari et al., 2003). Among the different windsurfing classes, the Neilpryde RS:X© class is the only one included in the Olympic Games. This class was proposed by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) and by the International Olympic Committee as an Olympic board in 2006, replacing the Mistral One Design© class.

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