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I would like to rent a Laser for the day (few hours) during my stay in Belgium in September. The only place I found in Google was Sailcenter Limbourg, which is not very close to Brussels, where I'll be based. Could someone point me in the direction of a club that rents Lasers nearer Brussels...

I have a very basic question regarding surfing waves: what should you be looking at when trying to do this? When you're faster than the waves I guess you should be looking ahead of you for the lower spots or valleys. What about when you're slower than the waves? Should you be looking behind...

In the video above a coach from the International Sailing Academy says that shooting up to head to wind is a good technique to defend your leeward hole from poachers. Watch from 1:53. I'm not getting the rationale of this. What I see here is that the windward boat hast lost his leeward hole...

In this video Ben Ainslie says that he "waggles the tiller on one side of the boat and then on the other side" to keep the boat head to wind. Is this legal? According to this document, I think it is not: http://www.sailing.org/tools/documents/Rule42Laser201320032014-[16804].pdf Emphasis...

Has anyone read Jon Emmet's "Be your own sailing coach"? Would you recommend it? Are there good pictures, are the different techniques clearly explained?

According to the LaserXd folks, when roll tacking, "to get a really powerful hike, [you should] kick your hiking boots under the grabrail". Has any of you ever done it this way? What would be the way to do it? Maybe hiking with your heels under the windward grab rail? I guess one should do it...

Hi, I'm a Laser newbie from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sorry for my awkward (nautical) English! I was watching Ian Elliot's video on light air gybing: So his way of getting the boom across for a gybe is to grab the mainsheet at the after end of the boom with the help of the tiller extension...