You could also do the opposite now and make a sail out of bedsheets and put it on a modern board

You jump on this one better than I do - on the regular board 🤣

Companies: there is our brand new 3000€ surfboard made out of NASA carbon fiber, unicorn poop and rainbow dust! Nico: Well I have this wood laying around....

Looking forward to part two. There should have a rule you can use anything from a basic builders store apart for foam Insulation boards or expanding foam.

hahaha.. I feel a challenge coming on!!! Wait until you see my tequila tree board

Fantastic video Nico. Hilarious. Manufacturers are sweating and shaking in their shaping rooms. This is the barn door board revolution 😂👍💥

This is one of the best things I've ever seen on the internet (& I've been using it for 35 years). Genius!

Best windsurf KZfaqr. Thanks for the entertaining content Nico😄

Most impressive gybe ever!! 🤣 So funny!! We look forward to your improvements! (And, hopefully, a guest carpenter coach to keep you from hurting yourself in the shop.)

Amazing that you made it work and nailed the first jibe perfectly ! 🤣 Big respect!

Please continue that was the funniest windsurfing video I have seen 🎉🎉🎉😂 On a plank of wood you still jibe better than I do on my freeride board. I doubt my life choices that lead to this fact😅

You’ve touch the feeling of the pioneers of windsurf ! Passion and hope , then let’s go see how it works .

40 years ago, Mike Waltze took down a hollow-core door from his bedroom, mounted a sail and fin on it and got it going, then when home and rehanged the door. Steve Wilkings took photos of all of it. Significantly lower stakes than your project, and significantly more flotation. Still, bravo, especially on that live-or-die jibe. Next step: put a foil on it. Also, big up for the Midnight Oil clip.

Tbh this was really sick. You know what would be fun? Do a challenge with a few pro windsurfers that they need to make their own board and do a race. Maybe even slalom x stuff too depending how much of a challenge you want to make it. Really keep up the good work love your videos and even use them when I give windsurfing lessons or to show people who are struggling with for instance light wind plaining. Hope to see you once and race with you on the foil!

Loved it. Had such a stupid smile on my face all the way till the end. It's like Topgear and their "genius" testing ideas. This is a true entertainment. Respect, man ❤

Actually held my breath for that first gybe 😄

Amazing. I can't believe that you did gybe perfectly with this wooden board. 👏👏👏👏

lets foil that thing

DIY boards would be a cool category for Slalom X

As a boat builder i love seeing this.... as designing on the fly is what its all about... well done

That is just awesome, was watching with a big smile on my face! Thank you for making my day! It is amazing that is actually worked.

Da kommt der Spruch: "Der gewinnt auch auf einer Klotür!" her. Good on you! 👍🤙

Unfassbar gut: Geile Idee und mega Gefühl für alles mit Segel drauf. Halse direkt in die Welle und mit Push weiter 😅

Brilliant. It reminds me of when, many years ago, we made a wooden ironing board into a snowboard. The conversion entailed (1) removing the legs (2) spraying it gold (3) attaching a person with roof-rack straps. It was not very good (it didn’t budge at all), though it looked fly. But it had even less rocker than Slim Shoddy 😂 God only knows how you got this monster up to 17 knots, or pulled off that gybe on the wave. Stunning! Keep it up and we’ll see you winning in Lanzarote on a true full-wood slalom…

"Sag was willst, aber die Leute interessieren sich für das Board..! 😂😂 Ich schmeiss mich weg😂 Geiles DIY- Video😂🤙🤙🤙

Really enjoyed that! Can't wait to see the next developments :)

Ganz geile Videoidee. Und zu krass fuhr das Brett einfach👍👍

Dear Nico, where do I even begin to express my admiration for you? When I first stumbled across one of your videos about three years ago, I was instantly impressed with your charisma and windsurfing expertise. While some of your more recent videos haven’t been as tremendously entertaining as the classics, this one was something special. The sheer ingenuity required to make a vessel that works so well from was downright impressive, and I was shocked when you made such an amazing gybe on the board. Nico, you have restored my faith in the internet windsurfing community and for that I am forever in debt to you. Sincerely yours, Daniel

Love it!!! Please keep going with this. Makes me want to try it.

New Board Brand. Finally! 😃

Thanks for proving something for me. I have shaped my own boards since the late '80s and one thing that always pissed me off was the long held misconceptions that rocker is what makes the board turn. It certainly has an effect on how the board turns but you just proved once and for all that a flat board will carve jibe just fine! BTW that was fun to watch.

Best video I've seen on KZfaq for a long time! You had me truely entertained and inspired to try more fun and random things.

This has to be the craziest thing I've seen on your channel. Such crazy actions take you into the realm of legends. I'm very curious about a Slim Shady 2.0

Great fun! I was laughing out loud watching this. Can’t believe you made the first gybe (shows how strong your survival instinct is, haha). It is great to see some goofy fun from a pro athlete.

Love the idea! Subscribed to see more like it!

Finally someone did this! Really cool video Nico and now u can say the smallest board u ever windsurfed was 0 liters🔥

so cool ! the more you improve, the more it will look like a modern board 😀

So fun to watch 😂🤣😂🤣. You're the best 🤴. I would love to see it with a foil 😝

I like that board art with wood chips 😂. Keep on going and make you own board in the end!!

When one navigates well…even a wooden board works!?!!! Oh man… it looks it’s easy!!! Good job and really fun 🤙😜👌

Too cool! Reminds me of Mike Waltz windsurfing a door in the mid-eighties.

The way you took the wave in the first jibe was just on point

+1 for doing this with a windfoil (or wingfoil) setup. Obviously no beachstarting unless you start off a pier.

The quest to make windsurfing more affordable has begun!

İ love your videos man i always watch them and it makes me feel happy keep up the good work

What a crazy idea but so much fun to watch this video!

This was a brilliant project! So cool and rewarding to make something with your own hands. Out of all your gybes I've seen, this has to be the best, simply because it enabled you to get back to the shore. 🙂 It will be great to see the 2.0 verson. Can you make it from a lighter wood, that doesn't absorb water?

Keep it going!! Love these kinds of vids :)

Zehr gut das video ! !! It remembers me my boards, in 1980 ! 😁

Yeah!!! Series!!

Great video! So much fun. I would be interested to see the improvements.👌

I did see a video of Matt Schweitzer and Jim Drake windsurfing a DOOR in Hawaii... early days, just for fun..

I would recommend 2,1 mm more rocker in the tail up to 46 cm of width, and then 6.7 degrees more scoop to the front. A bit more double concaves until 98 cm from the nose will improve handling in chop dramatically. Moving the mast base 9 mm more forward, and using a fin with 2 degrees more rake would do it... And again, if you use 100 % titanium screws you would save 0.5 grams of the total board weight giving new levels top end speed and control... This is really crazy 🙂 Per

In the past 15 years Ago I make a Sea Lion replica, with 4mm marine Plywood, carbon strrp and extruded polistirene strips (EPS) like a vacuum wooden hollow board, and externally a 300 gr E-glass around 1 layer, overlapping the rail. Project cost about 150 euro, it was fast to do around 1 week of work and the board was fine. Final weight around 9-10 kg

Super unterhaltsam. Tolles Video🤙🏼

The Starboard wooden board is back!

That's sick! So fun 🙂

I enjoyed watching this great video 👍❤

That is soooo sick🔥🔥🔥

Du bist so eine Legende😂 richtig cooles Video

That is just incredible, great sailing. Forget the board shop get down to B&Q

Oh my gosh, this is hilarious. And you perform much better than me on my regular gear 😅 Thanks for the video! Lena

Haha, nice one!😂 You guys never run out of ideas, brilliant!👍

you got me a constant grin on my face the hole video! what an amazing idea ! i guess you learned a lot ! it would be such a nice competition at PWA when every rider have to make his own board in 4 hours and then competing on it :D

Crazy, and more than wonderfull !!

The fact that you actually got planing on that is crazy and shows how good of a windsurfer you are 👑 Also Nice sweatshirt HABIBI 😂

That is really funny ;-) and entertaining us! Thanks

Made me laugh out loud!!! 🤣😂

HAHAHAHA so fun! Love it!

Nico save us!!!!!! No more expansive branded board, but just custom.

Planing jibe with this lmao! Really cool and fun project! Some ideas to expand the project: - strap a layer of polystyrene between two planks to increase volume - Try with a foil!

Gibt es eigentlich etwas, was du nicht kannst ? Klasse 💪

you destroid all what I learn of windsurf in 20 minutes, jaja

Such a cool idea🤙

Part 2 please😀!

WATERPROOF using a 2-Part EPOXY sealer...! Also, you should consider a proper 1 inch thick 18 layer Sapele Mahogany marine grade PLY-WOOD... NOT oriented-strand-board... I love this project...!

Ahahah great video 😂😂😂😂 Greetings from Verona (Malcesine-Torbole area) Italy 🇮🇹

Nico, you have some skills - as a carpenter, too - 😅. I am very impressed that you managed a planing gybe, and had the audacity to try in pretty cold water. What was your plan B, if you did not make that gybe?

I’ve just saw your video! 😂😂 great! Is it not an idea to organise a (what we call in holland) an “zeepkisten- windsurf-race” 😂 Max price for contesters to prepare a board and than race!

We made our first boards from marine ply, laminated with epoxy and set with a rocker. I kited for years with mine.

First Low-tech and petrol free windsurf board ! Long live the Slim Shady

Great, especially that you can screw in the camera direct in the board! Only a few cut-outs were missing for the perfekt board. 😉 🤙

You are the hero ! Respect !!!

Time to build whacky boards! 5 guys one board, 2 guys 1 foil, attach a kite friend at the front so 1 surfer 1 kiter 1 board

Its amazing what spring weather does to the brain.

Best ad for OSB wood makers

That's the REAL SINKER. Keep going please.

You are freak!! Awesome idea and skill!

More of these please hahaha

Eco friendly - perfect!!

That is silly! Love it! ❤

Thats windsurf youtube content! Perfect 😂

Haha great vid!

Du bist echt verrückt! 😉😉😉

Such a cool experiment, love to see it actually worked, would be worried on wood splinters in my feet. If you had put dome paint of laque it would have been a bit more water resistent Doing experiments means your spirit / mind is free, so a good sign Curious on the location story Keep making these videos, young kid on the water making fun

Geiler video Nico! You guys should do a race in slalom x where competitors have a day to create their own diy boards and then race them on a slalom course! Imagine the fun 😂

Best Story Ever!

Epic. This will be your new most watched video

AMAZING

nice effort 🙂