360's

This category of maneuvers involves moves that have some sort of circular (360 degree) rotation involving the board, the sail, and/or the body.  Many of these moves were inherited from the long-board freestyle maneuvers in the 1980's but rest assured, all the great New School windsurfers have flirted with these maneuvers as well.  They are key in the development of sail control, balance, and connectivity.

Rotating just your body is called a Pirouette.   The simple rotations using the mast base as a pivot include the following:   Rotating only the sail is a Sail-360, with the Reverse Sail 360 as another variation.   Rotating only the board is a Board-360.   Rotating your body and sail together is a Sail-Body-360.   An extension of the Sail-Body-360 is to jump on the leeward side of the sail and perform a Reverse-Sail-Body-360.   More of the same include the Frisbee (a Reverse sail body 360 with a sail throw.

Making a complete circle either upwind or downwind results in another subset of 360 maneuvers.  The upwind variety involve two very similar maneuvers called the Flip 360and the Upwind 360. A unique style to the Upwind 360 is the The Gecko and theClew-1st Gecko.

The numerous downwind variety include the standard Downwind 360, the One Handed downwind 360, the downwind 360 strapped, and it's cousin, theBender.

THe Tweeked maneuvers are seldom seen and they include the Tucan (I suppose I could put this in the Willie Skipper Variaion) the Lazy Susan, and the Teletubby.