intermediate non-planing
windsurfing lessons
our professional rya instructors will help to carry on developing your skills beyond the basics
intermediate non-planing options
- the progressive system of coaching give you the skills to confidently move forwards
- 3 hour lessons
- Private or Shared Group and One to One sessions
- Passionate qualified windsurfers, who love to teach and share
intermediate non-planing windsurfing
The Intermediate Non-planing Windsurfing lesson is where you go once, you’ve had some time on the basics and now need to improve those early techniques.
Taking the basic movements, now speeding them up and making them more refined, really helps to increase success rates, with moves like tacking and gybing.
The Intermediate Non-Planing phase in windsurfing can be quite broad, so you may start to head out in stronger winds, where you’ll need to be more dynamic and aggressive in your actions, but utlimately those Core Skills are really tarting to make sense.
Repetition is a big part of this phase in your windsurfing journey and we’ll be drilling certain movements and focussing on balance, vision and counter balance.  You’ll be feeling the control increase and your actions and responses will being to make more sense.
intermediate non-planing lesson (1-2-1 or Shared/Private Group)
The Intermediate phase is when your windsurfing really starts to take off.  All of those basic movements you’ve been working with like the Warrior stance, Counter Balance and Vision, will now come into play as we push things harder.
Who should attend the Intermediate Non-Planing lesson:
* If you’re already sailing as a beginner with very little experience, either on our Beginner session or on your own, this level is for you.
What we may cover
- Discussing stronger winds and safety.
- Speeding up and improving the Core Skills such as Vision, Warrior and Counter Balance.
- Understanding windsurfing equipment
- Kit setup and adjusments.
- Harness and lines.
- Pumping the rig.
- The power of stance and vision.
Helpful Information & intermediate Lessons
Things start to get a bit more exciting as you are tuning those moves and getting more dynamic, but we still need to consider everything from conditions to kit.
when do intermediate non-planing lessons run?
As you develop your skills, we need to head out in stronger winds.
I’m not saying 20 mph or more, but definitely 10-15mph, when you need to start to manage the rig and board more efficiently.
As we’re coastal based you’ll get those conditions all year round, so our lessons happen all year.
Also note that as winds get stronger, the water is often choppier which adds another little twist to the learning curve, but that’s how windsurfing works, it’s a forever learning curve.
What kit do we use as people start improving?
with a buoyancy aid for safety reasons, with a wetsuit as optional.
To be honest, the boards and sails don’t need to change that much at the intermediate non-planing phase, as it is all about accuracy and speeding up the movements.
We still use the Starboard boards and O’Shea sail, which are forgiving enough to help you make those moves.