Proud moment as the coach! So cool to be able to share these moments with the younger bro, 15 years after I got hooked on the sport 😍😍 Thanks for the epic edit, Windsurfing TV!
As a windsurfer if 40 years. Loved watching this. Takes me back to the early 80s reading books, practicing, getting it wrong, then right. The best sport. The wind is free, it takes you to a place of freedom. You v nature.
7 days! The same thing took me 2+ years- And then there are days when it feels like you’ve regressed back to day 2… but then there are moments when you (accidentally) feel like a pro! Finding good conditions and having a robust second-hand/used market for equipment is key. Great video-a nice change from all the tips on forward loops and backies ;)
I am joining in the queue. Started windsurfing last year. I dont think I been out 5- 8 times last year. Might be 6-7 times this year. Not even close to the foot straps or the harness. I dont fall so much. Infact, barely fall at all. My strategy is to get comfortable, sure and confident in where I am now and then go to the next phase. Will take years for me. I mean last year I was on a 3 m sail all year. This year went up to 6.5m Mostly low wind conditions. Tried in hard wind I couldn’t manage. Could go a little, but it was a straggle. So I decided low wind and slowly go out in harder wind. I am older as well, 38. Not talking about the muscle sour I get after every session. Couldn’t go out the next day. All body sour. Impressive the level he got in 1 week 👍😊
Wow...truly amazing...I started this year on February, at my 48, each Saturday with almost no wind, 36 days until now, 57 hours total sailing..... happily found this video, thanks for sharing.
Amazing what you can do with the right equipment good conditions and a great coach. Love these kinds of videos helps show my wife it doesn't always take years
This is truly incredible. I've never seen nor heard of anyone getting into the harness on day 3. This is a solid combo of great coach, natural ability and serious fitness. The average person can never get through 7 days of windsurfing and that many hours on the water. Massive respect. In 23 years of windsurfing I've never seen anyone progress that fast. Also, don't ever try to learn to uphaul in the waves. It's guaranteed to break your spirit. What you witnessed here is almost a miracle 🤣 Super cool to see. Gybing and looping in a month or two I rate, maybe less. Keep sending it.
I took a beginner course 5 hours per day for 6 days, with 4 free practice hours alone with the equipment. Of the 6 students in the class, 3 dropped out, and I was the only one that used the extra practice hours. I was one of only two students that passed the beginner course. I did try the harness for the first time in the final day of the course. I did learn a beach start but not a water start.
I think you overhyped and scared people . I tried today at age of 50 waves were similar in this video. after 30 min bit of theory and 20 minutes jumping into water I could sail the rest is just need practise like everything else and at 27 it it’s should be twice as easy to master . Not at all difficult water sport , pleasant and better then kites and surfing
Got a guy from novice to fully planing and harness and straps in 1 week. Easier because it was in a bay so zero swell, let alone a shorebreak, but harder as it was in the early 1990s so kit was a little harder to use. You would never have guessed just looking at the guy, as he didn't look particularly athletic, but he listened intently, practised the full time each day and asked great questions. He would have got the same result or better whoever had been his instructor, it was fantastic to watch.
it's funny because i got an old windsurf board from the 90's out of the internet market. go to my local lake, it was kinda good wind for beginners season and boom! after a couple hours, maybe 4-5 i made it into the harness, sweet gliding, felt good ☺️ to be fair - i know the water and the wind very good, in my teenager days I've been sailed on a 420 Jolle with a friend basically everytime there was wind. won couple prizes also 😊 but surfing is also really fun, i think i keep going it, pretty prowd of myself how good i am with the old equipment. but im a little concerned about the waves and open sea 😅
Great progress! It took me 1 year and 40 sessions of self learning on water from scratch to planing in harness and straps in 16-20 knots. It was really hard
Try learning on a 40 pound One Design board with a non battens sail. An 8 foot boom that NEVER stayed firm against the mast. I’m surprised any of us stuck with it. Today’s gear makes it so much easier. I’m glad I struggled from the beginning, but I love my current gear.
In the early 80’s, I was employed as a sailing instructor and I was given one afternoon to learn how to sail a windsurfer… I’ll add, I had to work it out by myself.
Might be very obvious, but what helped me with the progression from the beach start to the water start is definitely having enough wind. If the wind is not enough, it can be veeery exhausting trying to get the sail off of the water and very frustrating when the wind doesnt help you. (Also you must be as tucked in as possible when being pulled out of the water)
Thank you for showing the difficulty in learning this sport. From a snowboarding perspective, I knew there was a lot that goes into making a skilled wind/surfer that nobody seems to mention...
That's very impressive, especially given that the shorebreak is a tough place to learn--if the wind wasn't sideshore it would have been a different story. Add to that planing a 190L is no joke, in its straps even less so. Credit to Cosmas' fearlessness and dogged persistence. Most beginners take a lot longer to get comfortable with wind and power, regardless of technique, plus all the traffic out there would normally be scary as hell. Undaunted and applying some very good instruction, Cosmas did in days what usually takes weeks. Reading Trickionary certainly didn't hurt ;-)
Nice work, 7 days in a row is hard going, great progression. I had a boat sailor planing on his first day once 😄. I'm sure someone has pointed out but you need to lean out the side and drive into the fin when it is possible, you are losing control in the video because you where driving the front foot too long ( It causes lift on both sides of the fin and board wobbles ). Turn your hips parallel to the rail of the board start to shift your drive into the back foot, straightening the leg and drive into the side of the fin as you pull in the sail in to the other rail of the board. And then your planing on the fin😁 Controlled, comfortable , Windsurfing baby! 😁🤙Enjoy windsurfing and good luck in the Defi Wind! Find the fin and your there 🤙
i tired sea windsurfing yesterday... it was too difficult than windsurfing on lake. I am so impressed watching your progress only 7days! i wish riding like you.. very motivated to me. thank you sharing that.
Great job! I started 3 years ago.. 1st year 10 hours after a 1.5 day course. 2nd year 40 hours, beach start, planing.. this year.. planing, sometimes a non planing gybe-ish turn and a tack but still not comfortable in the footstraps, often to much pressure on the backside of the board and stall..not enough speed for footstreps and repeat 🤔 46 yo now.. hopefully this year the complete package and then makeing myself even more comforable on the water
His water starts are incredible. Took me ages to learn. Would get up on the board and then get yanked over the other side. This guy remembered to let go at the right time.. amazing !
Those conditions are just not made for 200 liter boards and 2.0 sails and he had to progress to a bigger sail and smaller board quickly to avoid frustration. This reminds me of my 4 day beginners course in Fuerte at Risco del Paso many years ago. 😅
I was learning a few years ago at the same spot and couldnt get thru shorebreak for two hours. El Medano is tough spot for beginners. I can see great coaching behind the progress, you did the right moves. Waterstart the 3rd day ? just impressive 😃
Started windsurfing last year. I dont think I been out 5- 8 times last year. Might be 6-7 times this year. Not even close to the foot straps or the harness yet. I dont fall so much. Infact, barely fall at all. My strategy is to get comfortable, sure and confident in where I am now and then go to the next phase. Will take years for me. I mean last year I was on a 3 m sail all year. This year went up to 6.5m Mostly low wind conditions. Tried in hard wind I couldn’t manage. Could go a little, but it was a straggle. So I decided low wind and slowly go out in harder winds. I am older as well, 38. Not talking about the muscle sour I get after every session. Couldn’t go out the next day. All body sour. Although this is getting a little better as well Impressive the level he got in 1 week 👍😊
Try 6 months adleast that's what im doing now. I knew how to plane already but now i am flying. I am still working on jibing though. Would like to fully plane a jibe one day, im just stalling mid point
I have been teaching windsurf for years, and seen thousands of students, I have never seen that! It seems that the wind has been consistent all the week which is crucial, but I know well medano bay, it's a difficult spot for a beginner. What is the background of the rider in sports? Very good surfer/kitesurf? Physically the beginnings are so demanding, it's crazy to be able to do that in a few days, congrats man!
I know its crazy!! I actually thought maybe I’d been set up and he already could windsurf. 😁 But I’m told it genuine.. he is a sailor though and been around windsurfing.. I guess
Especially impressive for your hands not having time to put some extra layers of skin on top... respect! My advice for injured hands: thin dish washing gloves. No matter what colour...
Such a fake video. No beginner manages to make a water start on day 3. There is some kind of big experience and physical abilities behind that, which is not told in the video.
Proud moment as the coach! So cool to be able to share these moments with the younger bro, 15 years after I got hooked on the sport 😍😍 Thanks for the epic edit, Windsurfing TV!
Now to spend 20 years mastering, that’s what i love about windsufing you never stop learning.
Me and my gf were there and saw it live. We were dumbfounded by how quickly he progressed.
Very impressive and good attitude 🤙
As a windsurfer if 40 years. Loved watching this.
Takes me back to the early 80s reading books, practicing, getting it wrong, then right.
The best sport.
The wind is free, it takes you to a place of freedom.
You v nature.
7 days! The same thing took me 2+ years- And then there are days when it feels like you’ve regressed back to day 2… but then there are moments when you (accidentally) feel like a pro! Finding good conditions and having a robust second-hand/used market for equipment is key.
Great video-a nice change from all the tips on forward loops and backies ;)
pretty much my experience too (i.e. yours). verbatim
I am joining in the queue. Started windsurfing last year. I dont think I been out 5- 8 times last year. Might be 6-7 times this year. Not even close to the foot straps or the harness. I dont fall so much. Infact, barely fall at all. My strategy is to get comfortable, sure and confident in where I am now and then go to the next phase. Will take years for me. I mean last year I was on a 3 m sail all year. This year went up to 6.5m Mostly low wind conditions. Tried in hard wind I couldn’t manage. Could go a little, but it was a straggle. So I decided low wind and slowly go out in harder wind. I am older as well, 38. Not talking about the muscle sour I get after every session. Couldn’t go out the next day. All body sour. Impressive the level he got in 1 week 👍😊
Wow...truly amazing...I started this year on February, at my 48, each Saturday with almost no wind, 36 days until now, 57 hours total sailing.....
happily found this video, thanks for sharing.
Amazing what you can do with the right equipment good conditions and a great coach. Love these kinds of videos helps show my wife it doesn't always take years
Very impressive, and very tough conditions for starting to windsurf
This is truly incredible. I've never seen nor heard of anyone getting into the harness on day 3. This is a solid combo of great coach, natural ability and serious fitness. The average person can never get through 7 days of windsurfing and that many hours on the water. Massive respect. In 23 years of windsurfing I've never seen anyone progress that fast. Also, don't ever try to learn to uphaul in the waves. It's guaranteed to break your spirit. What you witnessed here is almost a miracle 🤣 Super cool to see. Gybing and looping in a month or two I rate, maybe less. Keep sending it.
I took a beginner course 5 hours per day for 6 days, with 4 free practice hours alone with the equipment. Of the 6 students in the class, 3 dropped out, and I was the only one that used the extra practice hours. I was one of only two students that passed the beginner course. I did try the harness for the first time in the final day of the course. I did learn a beach start but not a water start.
I think you overhyped and scared people . I tried today at age of 50 waves were similar in this video. after 30 min bit of theory and 20 minutes jumping into water I could sail the rest is just need practise like everything else and at 27 it it’s should be twice as easy to master . Not at all difficult water sport , pleasant and better then kites and surfing
Got a guy from novice to fully planing and harness and straps in 1 week. Easier because it was in a bay so zero swell, let alone a shorebreak, but harder as it was in the early 1990s so kit was a little harder to use. You would never have guessed just looking at the guy, as he didn't look particularly athletic, but he listened intently, practised the full time each day and asked great questions.
He would have got the same result or better whoever had been his instructor, it was fantastic to watch.
it's funny because i got an old windsurf board from the 90's out of the internet market. go to my local lake, it was kinda good wind for beginners season and boom! after a couple hours, maybe 4-5 i made it into the harness, sweet gliding, felt good ☺️
to be fair - i know the water and the wind very good, in my teenager days I've been sailed on a 420 Jolle with a friend basically everytime there was wind. won couple prizes also 😊
but surfing is also really fun, i think i keep going it, pretty prowd of myself how good i am with the old equipment.
but im a little concerned about the waves and open sea 😅
Looks like we have a new member of the family 👏
A solid block of sailing was the key for me.
Had 12 days in a row of 20+ knots and transitioned to a wave board. Never looked back.
Congratulations and welcome to the sport! This is something you can enjoy for the rest of your life!
Great progress!
It took me 1 year and 40 sessions of self learning on water from scratch to planing in harness and straps in 16-20 knots. It was really hard
9:30 Yes, speed is what we need. Consider yourself hooked for life!
Unbelievable!!
Wonderful coach with brilliant student!!!
Try learning on a 40 pound One Design board with a non battens sail. An 8 foot boom that NEVER stayed firm against the mast. I’m surprised any of us stuck with it. Today’s gear makes it so much easier. I’m glad I struggled from the beginning, but I love my current gear.
Super encouraging, as a sailor looking to try out windsurfing. Send it!
In the early 80’s, I was employed as a sailing instructor and I was given one afternoon to learn how to sail a windsurfer… I’ll add, I had to work it out by myself.
Can fully relate. Maybe not the easiest spot to learn 😁 tricktionary book is so good, helped me quite a lot
Might be very obvious, but what helped me with the progression from the beach start to the water start is definitely having enough wind. If the wind is not enough, it can be veeery exhausting trying to get the sail off of the water and very frustrating when the wind doesnt help you. (Also you must be as tucked in as possible when being pulled out of the water)
Great 7 days straight. I had 3 days broken up into 3 weekends. immediately bought gear asap to continue my progression 4years later still going!
Thank you for showing the difficulty in learning this sport. From a snowboarding perspective, I knew there was a lot that goes into making a skilled wind/surfer that nobody seems to mention...
That's very impressive, especially given that the shorebreak is a tough place to learn--if the wind wasn't sideshore it would have been a different story. Add to that planing a 190L is no joke, in its straps even less so. Credit to Cosmas' fearlessness and dogged persistence. Most beginners take a lot longer to get comfortable with wind and power, regardless of technique, plus all the traffic out there would normally be scary as hell. Undaunted and applying some very good instruction, Cosmas did in days what usually takes weeks. Reading Trickionary certainly didn't hurt ;-)
i like the long learning curve and the endless posebility's, keeps me going with this sport! Great after just 7 days... good job!
Thanks for sharing:) Helps for us amateurs out there.
Very inspiring. Now need to find a place to do a 7-day on the water windsurfing daily to get better, faster.
It takes a lot of energy and request a lot of will to go through what you did in such short amount of time 👏👏👏
Wel done dude... It's gettin better and better..
Nice work, 7 days in a row is hard going, great progression. I had a boat sailor planing on his first day once 😄. I'm sure someone has pointed out but you need to lean out the side and drive into the fin when it is possible, you are losing control in the video because you where driving the front foot too long ( It causes lift on both sides of the fin and board wobbles ). Turn your hips parallel to the rail of the board start to shift your drive into the back foot, straightening the leg and drive into the side of the fin as you pull in the sail in to the other rail of the board. And then your planing on the fin😁 Controlled, comfortable , Windsurfing baby! 😁🤙Enjoy windsurfing and good luck in the Defi Wind! Find the fin and your there 🤙
i tired sea windsurfing yesterday... it was too difficult than windsurfing on lake. I am so impressed watching your progress only 7days! i wish riding like you.. very motivated to me. thank you sharing that.
Great job! I started 3 years ago.. 1st year 10 hours after a 1.5 day course. 2nd year 40 hours, beach start, planing.. this year.. planing, sometimes a non planing gybe-ish turn and a tack but still not comfortable in the footstraps, often to much pressure on the backside of the board and stall..not enough speed for footstreps and repeat 🤔 46 yo now.. hopefully this year the complete package and then makeing myself even more comforable on the water
His water starts are incredible. Took me ages to learn. Would get up on the board and then get yanked over the other side. This guy remembered to let go at the right time.. amazing !
Very cool ! I remember learning; What a sweet time of life
I think the outbanks sound (North Carolina, Avon) will be the best place learn windsurfing.
Unbelievable progress in 7 days.... awesome...well done
Yep- more vids like this please. Love the Channel.
Good job! Awesome! I cant wait to be back in December - nothing like Medano!
Great video! And the best part is the smile on your face when you're getting out of the water. love it!
Those conditions are just not made for 200 liter boards and 2.0 sails and he had to progress to a bigger sail and smaller board quickly to avoid frustration. This reminds me of my 4 day beginners course in Fuerte at Risco del Paso many years ago. 😅
I was learning a few years ago at the same spot and couldnt get thru shorebreak for two hours. El Medano is tough spot for beginners. I can see great coaching behind the progress, you did the right moves. Waterstart the 3rd day ? just impressive 😃
The definition of progress 👋👋👋
This took me a YEAR
Sameeeeee😫
Excellent video. More of these to get more youngsters into the sport.
Started windsurfing last year. I dont think I been out 5- 8 times last year. Might be 6-7 times this year. Not even close to the foot straps or the harness yet. I dont fall so much. Infact, barely fall at all. My strategy is to get comfortable, sure and confident in where I am now and then go to the next phase. Will take years for me. I mean last year I was on a 3 m sail all year. This year went up to 6.5m Mostly low wind conditions. Tried in hard wind I couldn’t manage. Could go a little, but it was a straggle. So I decided low wind and slowly go out in harder winds. I am older as well, 38. Not talking about the muscle sour I get after every session. Couldn’t go out the next day. All body sour. Although this is getting a little better as well Impressive the level he got in 1 week 👍😊
this guy is so talented and must be with a very good instructor.
Thank you for this video ! This is very inspiring for the best sport EVER !!!
World Champ in a month next 🤩
Day 1 conditions 😱😱. Legend 🍻
I like windsurfing.
Well done! 🤙
Try 6 months adleast that's what im doing now. I knew how to plane already but now i am flying. I am still working on jibing though. Would like to fully plane a jibe one day, im just stalling mid point
Wow!!! Is this indeed real??
I have been teaching windsurf for years, and seen thousands of students, I have never seen that!
It seems that the wind has been consistent all the week which is crucial, but I know well medano bay, it's a difficult spot for a beginner.
What is the background of the rider in sports? Very good surfer/kitesurf?
Physically the beginnings are so demanding, it's crazy to be able to do that in a few days, congrats man!
I know its crazy!! I actually thought maybe I’d been set up and he already could windsurf. 😁
But I’m told it genuine.. he is a sailor though and been around windsurfing.. I guess
come on : it's not the very first time, even for day one!
Finally an episode I can identify with. All those triple forwards, high jumps, etc. is nice to see but almost not real for the below average.
he did good . vey impressive👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
inspiring! 😃
Just HOW?? How can you do that in 7 days? 😂 That's impressive
Especially impressive for your hands not having time to put some extra layers of skin on top... respect! My advice for injured hands: thin dish washing gloves. No matter what colour...
can we get an update?
Huge boards compared to when I was windsurfing in the 80’s and 90’s
Very good video and experience..
Well done!
Great progress
Muy bien, pero esto son años de experiencia y haber roto muchos aparejos, y nadar con la tabla a la costa para salvar la vida.
is it possible to share the location information?
it could be very helpful to me when preparing the windsurfing travel~~
Terrific effort. Not really an easy place to learn either.
Amazing progress for 7 days
it is so hard to get the sail off the water once it falls in.
🎉 If someone makes so much progress in such a short time, they are extremely talented!! Have you ever experienced something like this in other sports?
Same asking!!!
I think my record is getting knocked over 7 times in a row in high waves until I finally got some wind in the sail and steering speed ^^
If he progressed like that in just 7 days then he will be winging in an hour easily
looking how much he enjoys the challenge, i think he will get bored with a wing before 1 hour elapsed
Im 2 weeks in and i am almost on harness
I did the same progression in one day.
super cool man
el medano ❤️
Muy capo sos!!
where is this place?
Just Unreal
Amazing!!!! Go and send it :=)
Awesome
Cool
Such a fake video. No beginner manages to make a water start on day 3. There is some kind of big experience and physical abilities behind that, which is not told in the video.
nice
Music?
Just start kitesurfing 😂
🤙🤙💪💪
I used 6
nah. I in 7 days landed a forward loop, lol. just kidding
Worst beach to learn. So small and crowded. Better not speaking about the wind. So that makes you bigger.
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Wow toughest learning conditions
EPIC COSMAS!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥹🥹