Flaka

A Flaka is a freestyle windsurfing move, where the sailor performs a sliding upwind 360 degree turn with the board and in the footstraps. Invented by Web Padrick, who originally named the move Swayze after the actor Patrick Swayze. This move looks like a flatwater taka, hence its current name.

The entire move is performed at planing speed on short boards and is therefore a "sliding" or "New School" freestyle manoeuver.

Alongside Vulcan and its variations, Flaka is the key manoeuver in modern windsurfing freestyle. Flaka variations include onehanded Flaka, clew-first Flaka, Flaka-diablo, Flaka 720, Meev (invented by Kevin Mevissen) and Shaka (invended by Ricardo Campello)

External links

* [http://www.roynbartholdi.com/windsurf/index.htm Royn Bartholdi Windsurfing] , with descriptions and photos of techniques and freestyle tricks

FLAKA : Also referenced as an acronym

This is also the acronym for the fun shop of you-name-its, Feel Like A Kid Again, a web-based shop specializing in toys, games, video games, antiques, weird stuff, parts to your collectibles you never thought you would find, OOAK/hand made items and more.

Their myspace is www.myspace.com/flakashop.

They also have a cafepress, a squidoo, facebook and more. www.flaka.net is their current main site.

[www.flaka.net]

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[http://www.myspace.com/flakashop myspace FLAKA]