How to: CARRY YOUR WINDSURFING-GEAR | Full Tutorial

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[@mjoosterhuis]

At 4.10 you are about to find out that you forgot your fin, so you walk back to the van to go get it. Once back at you gear you realise that you forgot the screwdriver to attach the fin to the board, so you have a nice stoll back to the van (which you repeat to bring back the screwdriver after attaching the fin). All in all a perfect warmup 😂. (But seriously, very nice video with handy tips, thanks for that!)

[@Nico_GER7]

Haha!! Luckily I wasn't actually going to go wave sailing (as you can see from the conditions behind), so I didn't have to do the walk of shame 😂!

[@lisadean538]

I noticed that too lol. I put my screwdriver and fin in a footstrap and hide the screwdriver on the beach......usually under my flip flops 😊

[@logohigh1]

Hahah

[@fasullamail]

Sooooo true. I noticed it too. Once I had to walk the stuff (big board and rigged sail, separately) for a huge distance on sand. At the moment of connecting the 2 parts... I realised I had forgotten to install the base plate. 😩 3rd walk!

[@Jaawws1]

@@lisadean538 Round here the dogs steal your flip flops!🐈

[@martijnwindsurfing]

Great video Nico, that ending shot🤣!

[@oceannesailor]

Windsurfing for almost 10 years and crazy how many practical tips I didn’t know about presented here (shame on me! 😅😩). And I had to watch this without sound, too, so incredible how much and how well you communicated even without it. Thanks, Nico!!!! Another very well conceived and presented video 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@jeroenhessel7535]

OMG, I've never seen that trick with the mast extender in the foot straps, but it's really genius.

[@posegidon]

Also you can put your extension on the head of your boom! Mostly it fits perfectly!

[@andysykes9139]

I used to have a 1980's custom wave board that spun out constantly. I got a 90'S Mistral Screamer and that thing was so stable at high speed!

[@ryohunter3430]

When i first saw the title I was like "what kinda video is this? Why do I need a video like this?" But now I think is one of the most helpful video I ve ever seen 🤩 thx Nico also thx from my back 😉

[@NicolasKOWALSKI]

Windsurfing since 30+ years. I just did not know how to do this properly. Thanks Nico.

[@kev-the-windsurfer.]

Cool tips!! I didn't think I needed to watch this, but I watched anyway and found it to be very helpful and interesting!!

[@stefanogiorgetti417]

Very very useful and well explained - thank you!!

[@jeroenhaverkamp7043]

Thanks Nico, superhandy, once again. You (and Robby Naish offcourse) are my windsurf Hero’s

[@donaldfiesta8666]

Don't you just love it when someone comes up and tries to talk to you while you're carrying in the wind?

[@carlschmidt4059]

Great tips, thanks a lot for the video, Nico!

[@roylass1057]

Very helpfull video , there is another a little treaky way which works in strong wind and small material, you hold the riged sail on the boom downwind and the board with the other hand upwind, as i wrote its a little treaky but for me the easiest way

[@your.dark.lord.]

Using a big and heavy beginner board, so I carry it separately. But the sail, on my head looking down to base as you showed. Really useful!

[@peteraffenzeller7485]

Super interessant wäre mal so eine Anleitung wie man mit dem Zeug aus einem shorebreak rauskommt...halbwegs elegant und in einem Stück 😁🤙

[@wim-1399]

I was afraid this video would start (and end) with "just grow some muscles!" 😂. Really good tips, thanks man. And I loved the ending haha!

[@shredandenjoy7311]

Thanks for sharing! I'm just getting into windsurfing and I appreciate these tips!

[@joakimyliruusi]

Thank you for this! I really would have needed this about a month ago, first surf session of the year. I had a difficult time carrying both board and rig together, so I decided to carry them separetly. I took the rig first, left the board, brand new 2021 Starboard Carve. Then the wind flipped the board and smashed it to the ground, braking the board on 4 spots 😭 So keeping them together and carrying them together I will do from here on out!

[@j3d3rby1]

Thank you, The Head Carry,, finally explained in detail,. Excellent tutorial, keep them coming.

[@mintoxace5571]

I still struggle with my front foot wanting to slip out of my footstrap at high speed when using racing gear. I’ve tried all the different techniques to add pressure to the front foot (boom lower, tighter footstraps, different downhaul settings, mast base position, waist harness as opposed to seat harness, different fin sizes etc) but no luck and it’s ruining my sailing. I’ve asked many top sailors in my area and even on the tour but no one seems to be able to help. I don’t have front foot issues when using wave sails on freeride or free race boards, only full race sails. If you could do a video on how to set up your gear to reduce front foot issues that would be awesome. Setting up harness lines for race kit would be great too. Thanks for all your content so far. 😊

[@yilmazkurt8584]

You are very smart. Thank you for sharing. I am new to Windsurfing. This was my tenth day in windsurfing today. I am 44 years old but Iam trying to learn as much as I can at the weekends. Have a wonderful day.

[@dominicglover4118]

Super useful tutorial. I’ve been wanting a video to talk through the head carry for a long time, and here it is 😃

[@ojchilton]

Great video, I love the mast base tip! While carrying the gear on your head, you will find that you have more control over the board if, instead of holding the foot strap, you put your hand palm down on the board through the foot strap (thumb doesn't go through). This gives you much more control over the angle of the board in the wind.

[@kier4n]

Love it. Ive always wanted to do the board and rig on the head thing but never knew how!

[@drillkid]

Thank you for all the videos.

[@charysmx]

Awesome, can't wait to try! Now we only need the definitive guide on how to place your gear in the wind so it doesn't fly away. Especially unconnected - fin on the ground or not ? Fin upwind or downwind? How to place a sail in stronger winds, and where to place something heavier on the sail if necessary?

[@EverRider]

Nice tips. Just missing the same tuto with foil gear 😁

[@manlioferrari8030]

I vote for this. Specially going to the water with 9.0 and 100 cm wide board 🙄

[@robhruska7611]

Got lots of great ideas.Thanks!

[@djmax01]

Great video 🔥 I've always wondered the correct way to carry the gear over your head Definitely going to try it out next session

[@kenzephyr]

Very helpful Nico - thx for this. Even I learned something today with 40+ years of surf experience. Keep it coming 🤙🏼

[@launisteemu]

Bravo! Good and clear instructions.

[@olivierduran1454]

As always, very helpful 👌

[@henrycartwright7124]

Great video! 11.15 is the most important for the vast majority of windsurfers so perhaps if you do another how to carry video that would be helpful to expand on. Otherwise all v helpful. I would add that if you are carrying board and sail separately never to leave the sail by the water’s edge unattended in case it flies away. So carry board to beach first!

[@alexvantee6938]

Nice tutorial, cheers hadn't seen the extention trick yet. For carrying a board i always do heck forward with fin to the inside. Makes a more stabil walk then nose forward

[@uritamminga1]

Awesome tips! I will use them next time out!

[@steffenernst3234]

Great tutorial and useful tips 👍. I never figured out how to carry board and Sail (rigged) up over my head until now. Will try to use your advice next time. Cheers 🤜

[@PonyhofKiel]

Thank you for all your good videos

[@jessicalaulhe1687]

Great video, love you Nico!

[@EdnaDelmondes]

Perfect!!!🙏🏼

[@rrschmid]

nice video! I was hoping u'd also show the board flipped over on top of the sail carry technique...

[@noohohno]

Great tips. Now I need to add a long extension to the kit:). Interesting uni cup. Hybrid between Euro and American? Best of both?

[@notyouraveragewindsurfer]

That was awesome!

[@niwelezlusch9610]

Wow! Great! Danke für diese tolle Erklärung :)

[@davemarch1811]

Nice tips thanks Nico 🙂

[@logohigh1]

I put each mast section through each foot strap , Then boom on top, harness lines around mast extension and then sail on top secured front and back same as nico , and then tie down haul rope round the lot Then you only have to carry one package and it won’t blow away The mast extender through foot strap looks like recipe for damaged wrist ….if wind blows suddenly from wrong direction

[@henrymahergmail]

Nico, great video as always. The quality is getting better and better. Is there any chance for you to do another video on carrying foil gear? How to get it through the shore break and back again. And also with wave sailing how to walk your gear back up the beach to the original launching spot. I usually just carry it board in hand and sail in the other, have tried to carry it on my head but sometimes it gets a little bit out of control. Thanks again for all the great videos. All the best.

[@_aira_7937]

Nice lifehacks, thank you🤙😁

[@oliverkagi]

Hoi Nico, there is another way, which in my opinion is even easier to carry board and sail on the head. You take the board and put it on top of the sail with the fins looking towards the sky! I think it's easier to balance as the board is on top of your head and not a weight in front of you. cheers

[@simplejim-il7mg]

Nice! Thank you 🤙

[@salvatoredecarlo2971]

Hi Nico, thank you for your videos, they are very usefull! I was wondering if you could also make a video about how to bring the sail out of the water please? In particular when there is a bit of a shorebreak and the water gets deep quickly (when the shore is steep). Many thanks!

[@Willleau1]

love your videos. top work.

[@homerilias]

Genial, so sieht man auch clever aus.

[@luciennieman4490]

Great tips👍👍

[@lukasbroer9824]

Grande ! Grazie molto

[@cobbiepalm6790]

For you it must seem like common sense, but this to me was knowledge of gold!

[@danielebasso1094]

Thank you very much! 😄👍🏼

[@TomEliaerts]

Nice easy tutorial! I see you have the new np combats in the house 🧐😆? So np will sponsor you again?

[@riktigelaar8002]

Great video! Especially the on the head carrying I'm mostly doing that on power instead of technic. And.... don't fotget tot take of your cap first while carrying it on the head. Otherwise you could end up with a dent in the sail due to the button on top of you cap.

[@Nico_GER7]

Not if you wear them like me 😄.

[@nicke14]

Or forgetting you have the gopro on your helmet, coming out of the water 🙈😄

[@riktigelaar8002]

@@Nico_GER7 Not everybody look good doing so🤣

[@CharlieCushing]

My friend forgot to take his GoPro off his helmet last year...

[@thorstenc7342]

This was my first thought too 😂 But especially with older sails, the foil can also tear 😱, unfortunately, i know very well what i'm talking about 😭

[@guswind4636]

when carrying sail and board separated to the shore beach it always better first carry the board and then sail rig and attach it to the board, otherwise you might not find your sail where you left it, I learned that in Tarifa 🤣

[@fitnessandinjury]

awesome thanks

[@bertvwveldman3931]

So Nico, why dont you tape the nast joint to prevent sand and mast getting stuck. Great tip on mastextention as a handgrip, will try this for sure

[@gionacoerezza3673]

Very helpfuuuul

[@nonamenosurname8516]

This is great video, nothing new to me (I saw technique carrying it seperately in each hand some years ago on Fehmarn/Heiligenhafen) and its such an excelent way how to carry your gear between car and beach). Well that thing with the extension under footstrap never occured to me (I have small boards, so no issues here, but I will give it a try). Its nicely explained how and why it works. Mast 90° to the wind that should be basic to everyone, but when u look at beach how others doing it then its not :( Everytime I go I see many guys just fighting with wind while carrying their gear. My first thought is: wind is your friend, not your enemy. My second thought: if they cant use wind to their advantage on the solid ground how they perform on the water? Work smarter, not harder :) tip for next video: few tips how to get in and out of the water throught bigger beach break? When to go to water, what to look for, some tips how to see when its "safe" and when its not etc

[@ingotaraske6996]

Great tipps, carrying the sail on the head often pushed down the sail to my head so now it’s clear how to use the wind more effectively. How about taking care of the carbon fin? I guess you lift the cover just before heading back one more time to get on the Neo, and keep the board upside down? I’m also struggling with bringing foil board and sail to the water a bit. Usually I take the board with foil there first, but it’s a bit risky with kids playing at the beach etc.

[@a-ztube]

Richtig nice tausend dank 👌🏽😍🤙🏽

[@Joey-xc3xb]

I know it's alreay been said, but I really wish I had known that 'cary your gear like a backpack' trick 10 years ago! Thanks Nice, you (guys) really make some quality (and visually appealing) content. and good luck with the road to 50k subs, I know you will get there soon!

[@klavskaupa8605]

Great other video idea is How to carry your foil equipment because it's a bit more complicated, and also if you can you could show how to carry your equipment out of the water because I am always struggling with that. Great video, thanks for the tips ;)

[@thorstenc7342]

Hi Nico, wieder mal ein Klasse Video 👍🏼👏🏼 Die Variante mit der Mastverlängerung ist schon top. Ansonsten kann ich für Leute mit wallender Mähne (wie mich 😉😂) die NP Neopren Cap empfehlen, ersatzweise auch den Mastfußprotector als Hutersatz. Hilft mir immer wieder, auch das Board mit dem Foil zu tragen.

[@bradmurdaugh5228]

Great video. Props to Lars and his editing. Very apparent that your videos have just leveled up.

[@LarsWcmn]

Thanks;)

[@loskiff]

Nice Job! Can you do a video about the differences between the various mast bases? I see at 3:04 you use a 2 pin base and sometimes a 1 pin base. I am very curious about it!

[@vladislavkornushenko]

After 10 years of windsurfing I finally know how to carry the staff 😂

[@user-rl3cv6zc7s]

Спасибо! Очень полезное видео. Я так ни когда не пробовал выносить снаряжение. Я если парус большой выношу отдельно верх и отдельно доску. Если парус небольшой доска в одной руке верх в другой все вместе.

[@mikeflower3308]

great video! great can you teach us about foils ? things get more difficult there especially in and out the water! thanks

[@CharlieCushing]

For carrying the rig as one unit: What I've been doing lately is connecting the sail + board and then flipping the board fin-up so it's lying on top of the sail. Then I flip the harness line over the fin so that it holds the board in place. You can then fly the rig or carry it on your back. I don't know how bad it is/isn't for the sail to carry it on your head, but carrying it on your back seems to distribute the forces a lot more evenly.

[@Nico_GER7]

That sounds very interesting. I wouldn’t wanna do that with an expensive fin, but I see the advantage. I wonder if this will be hard to control in shifty and strong wind. What do you mean by carrying on your back? I don’t get how that would look.

[@CharlieCushing]

@@Nico_GER7 So yeah, carrying it on my back...It's pretty undignified. I just bend over instead of standing upright and then find the balance point like you were demonstrating on your head. I've tried it before on my head, too, but I think it's most likely too much strain on the sail = bad idea. If the wind is strong enough, I just let the sail fly and hold it at my waste by the mast + footstrap with the tip of the sail slightly downwind. Honestly, I think the way you're showing it in this video is probably safer for the gear all-round. I can see a risk of the harness line chipping the sharp edge of a performance fin. And even on the flat of my shoulders/back, there's still pressure on the sail and that should be minimized whenever possible. When I'm too tired after a session, though, this technique I'm describing seems to require the least amount of energy when I want to get the entire rig back in a single trip.

[@tomweston3239]

I'm working at a windsurf station so carry kit full time and this was still super useful, I'll definitely try the extension trick at some point. Any chance you could do this for the foil too? even though I only have 25 meters to go or so, I tend to bring the board down and follow with the rig which isn't really ideal when it's super windy

[@Arved00710]

Hey Nico, cooles Video, funktioniert super, wo bist du ? Sieht verdammt schön aus.💪

[@chrisk7150]

Oh god, my heart at the outro :( Please include a disclaimer along the lines of "No neilpryde sail was harmed during the making of this video" :D

[@repsak3]

Im no pro like you but i never wear a hat with that top pin when i carry sails, tho i do stick the fin in the harness lines sometimes :P

[@kramshoej]

damn those were nice tips

[@roj0088]

Can you do a video on what is a good gps for gps sailing?

[@charleswillard775]

Cool that thx...tried the board extension handle for 1st time today. But was thinking don't you destroy the u/j rubber by bending it down all the time.

[@simonepinto1388]

Hello Nico, very good tutorial with good insight! But I have a question: how instead do you get the gear out of the water smoothly? At my spot the sand goes quickly down (or up when you walk out of the water) so it's hard to lift everything, and I always separate the rig from the board, but that leaves the board floating around in the waves and usually reaches goes ashore by the time I'm back. Is there a better way?

[@lasersailor184]

Carrying the board cross wind, or even into the wind is easy. But what about carrying the whole thing downwind, especially when you're done?

[@BendixEngemann]

Danke 🙌. Vorallem der Trick mit der Mastverlängerung und das richtige tragen auf dem Kopf des gesamten Materials (schon oft gesehen, aber nie gecheckt wie man es am einfachsten macht).

[@butzemann27]

Nice intro

[@pete9772]

And now an easy way getting in and out of the water with a foil.🤙

[@Nico_GER7]

Wanted to put it in this video, but was too much. 😄😄

[@mariskavanvliet9728]

Great video!! Thankyou! What is the location of this spot?

[@ElectroHouseFanXXX]

Nico thanks a lot for the video, really helping me learn the technique . What would u say up to how many litres or kg you could cover above your head with a big freeride / slalom sail? I have a 8.5 freerace sail with a 140 litres board (HRS version) which weighs A LOT. U think its still possible ?

[@ScrattleGG]

All I learned from this is I need Nico to carry my gear FOR me as the easiest solution

[@windaddict]

When you set down your board it sits on the fintip which can get damaged over time. In the video you have the cover over the fin. But fin covers easily break / tear at the fintip when you set the board down like that. Not sure what to do.

[@orjanolsson9577]

OK, I am sorry. It is of course up to you. And your videos are really good! Basically,,,

[@Nico_GER7]

😂😂

[@user-sw9mj3yw9p]

재밌다 ㅋㅋ

[@someoneinmyhead]

Where was this filmed? Where are the best spots to go windsurfing on the Baltic sea?

[@OlliGarchow]

Oh, watch your sail on the end. I hope it is still in one piece

[@martinkoppl4367]

Good Tips! Packing the Rigg as a Handbag is my way to go after i saw it from your previous Video. Btw where is this Location? Just went home after a vacation in Born. Would be so cool to see you surfing in real :)

[@thorstenc7342]

This should be Heidkate, near to Kiel.

[@estherliutti]

Got a question about the first hack: Do you carry the board with the Fin on so you can leave the screwdriver in the car? or ou put it later?

[@oomkoen]

What are the orange and blue color codes from that Ultrakode?

[@sharewavestv]

Today no magic uprigging? 😉 But cool to share your knowledge

[@steven_windsurf_nl]

So when first watching i thought... He has to get back for the fin. 😊. But then the video released of windsurf being 40 years old, narrated by nico saying 'that day he forgot his fin'. So, i guess this is a nice tribute...