“THE REAL CORE OF IT IS GRABBING YOUR TWIN-TIP, POINTING IT DOWNWIND, POWERING UP AND GOING FOR BROKE!” Twin-tip racing is a growing discipline, offering a more straight-up and accessible buzz than its more technical cousin, foil racing. Rather than navigating around a course with challenging upwind angles and long reaches, TT:R racing, as it’s known, is run on a downwind slalom track with tight turns around buoys close to the shore, so riders jostle for position right in front of spectators on the beach. Of course skill is a prerequisite and you need a sound grasp of tactics to do well, but the real core of it is grabbing your twin-tip, pointing it downwind, powering up and going for broke!
The recent addition of having to jump over inflatable…