Windsurfing – Tour description

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Windsurfing is a sport of fun and enjoyment. Once you can master the basic skills, you will be able to do windsurfing on your own. You will enjoy the freedom when gliding on the surface of water and “flying” alongside with seagulls. It will also give you lots of excitement and challenge. When you are blasting on the water, the speed will pick up with the wind and the feeling is so wonderful that you cannot beat it. Are you ready to take the enjoyment and challenge from windsurfing? Our Water Sports Centres have organised a series of windsurfing training programmes ranging from introductory training to instructor training, so as to enable you to enrich your leisure time, explore your potential and set your own target in this respect.

Basic Windsurfing Training
This course is specially designed to offer you a safe, uncomplicated and enjoyable start to the sport of windsurfing. Our instructors will guide you through the basic skills and theories, including launching, start and landing, sailing techniques and stance, maneuvers, rigging, self-rescue techniques, sailing theories and safety codes.
Entry requirement – Able to swim 50 metres.

Windsurfing Improver
More practices are the second step for every novice windsurfer who wants to improve his / her skills. In this course, you will learn how to do tacking and jibing faster. The course is also suitable for those who have left the sport for a long time and would like to refresh their skills.

Intermediate Windsurfing Training
Once you are competent in doing windsurfing in all directions in light winds, the intermediate course is the key to open the door of windsurfing paradise. In this course, you will learn how to sail in stronger winds with more advanced techniques, stance, maneuvers and sail rigging, correct harness and harness line adjustment, basic foot-strap technique and mast track adjustment. With more knowledge about the sailing theories, you will be able to sail the board in various conditions. After passing the assessment, you may proceed to the advanced windsurfing training and fun board training.

Advanced Windsurfing Training
You will learn all practical skills and theories to enhance your windsurfing competency. This course covers the techniques of beach start, water start, sailing stance, rig tuning and carve jibe.

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Windsurfing is an
incredibly dynamic sport.
You can learn to cruise slowly
like a sailboat, fly along at
lightning speeds, race, wave sail,
or do aerial tricks. The best
time for windsurfing on the west coast
is between November and April. It´s sunny
and the water and wind conditions are good.
After April the monsoon hits and the seas can
be very rough. These conditions are more suitable
for experienced windsurfers. On the east coast the best winds are during July and August. They tend to be on the strong side, but other than that conditions are excellent.

And, of course, the best thing about windsurfing in Sri Lanka is that the water is nice and warm whatever the season. No wetsuits, no Neoprene. All you need is your swimming gear! If you are a beginner, you can learn in the relative safety of the Bentota river while windsurfers with experience can face the stronger winds of the open sea.

Enjoy a windsurfing course in the warm, blue waters of the Indian Ocean. Our windsurfing instructors will teach you about the wind, how to efficiently get on the board, sail and turn. Learn the high-wind stance, steering and jibe and continue to reinforce sailing skills.

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