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A surfer who gave up paddling and hired the sky instead.
means A person who rides a board fitted with a mast and sail, steering by tilting the rig to harness the wind across water.
from A straightforward 20th-century compound of 'wind' and 'surfer,' coined as the sport itself was invented — boardsailing pioneers in the late 1960s/1970s bolted a sail and universal joint onto a surfboard, and 'Windsurfer' quickly went from a brand name for the device to the everyday word for both the board and the person riding it.
- origin
- Invented 1960s by bolting a sail to a surfboard
- skill curve
- Falling is step one, two, and twelve
- olympic status
- Sailing event since 1984, oddly under sailing not surfing
- physics flex
- Can sail faster than the wind pushing it