2008 Clinics
Learn to Windsurf
Petra Kanz Clinics

Learn To Windsurf Clinic
Sunday, June 15, 2008, 11:30 am
Fee: $35
Advance Registration Required

BABA and Ultimate Watersports are working together to bring a one-day Learn to Windsurf Clinic to the Gunpowder on Sunday, June 15, 2008. Registration is at 11:30. The fee is $35. Participants will be introducted to windsurfing and get on the water with certified windsurfing instructors.

BABA will provide a complimentary one-year club membership for clinic participants so they can keep up the stoke and read all about area windsurfing activities in the BABA newsletter. Encourage your non-windsurfing family and friends to join us for this clinic. For more information contact Janice Emerling. or 410/457-4001.

Also - check out the US Windsurfing Learn to Windsurf Project for online instructions - this may give you a head start for your on the water class.

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PETRA KANZ CLINICS
Advance Registration Required
Dates and Clinic Topics to be announced.
For more information about other Petra Kanz Clinics go to Petra's website.

Clinics will be tailored to participants' interests with 6 people maximum. Clinics are 2 days and have shore/ simulator lectures as well as time on the water. If you are interested in joining a group to determine what topics the 2008 clinic will cover, Janice Emerling or 410/457-4001 asap.

Shortboard Clinic

Longboard Clinic

Freestyle/Sail Handling
This clinic will help any windsurfer comfortable with basic skills to greatly improve their board and sail handling ability. Petra starts with solid clew first, fin first and backwind sailing (beach starts and waterstarts). Then come helicopter tacks and body sail 360s. Petra works from successes on these skills into more advanced tricks, all interspersed with lots of sail-chi and how these moves apply to everyday sailing. And the beauty of a freestyle clinic is that it requires next to no wind!
The clinics will limit class size to six students (minimum four students) which allows for significant individual attention.

Petra Kanz was the women’s 2001 Freestyle Champion at the prestigious King of the Cape competition in New England and is a uniquely qualified freestyle instructor. She says that learning freestyle means "Debunking two myths: 1) that ‘freestyle’ is a senseless accumulation of show off tricks that only 1/2% of the windsurfing population is able to do, and 2) that it has nothing to do with ‘normal’ sailing skills." Petra teaches at Extreme Windsurfing in Lakes Bay, NJ, and conducts professional clinics at other sites on the East Coast during the season. Petra's passion is getting women and girls into watersports.