The history of windsurfing is short. Tarifa is for the serious amateur for the simple reason that it is often too perilously windy for the beginners. Eric Lubbe arrived from Germany in 1983 and opened the first fun-board school in Tarifa.
Today there is a choice of four surf schools.
Fluent in five languages, Eric has seen some fundamental changes in the sport over the past fifteen years. Now they are smaller and lighter using the same carbon technology as spaceships. The level of ability of the average windsurfer is also much higher. People can be seen sailing with 40 knot winds and doing amazing jumps. At the height of the season, the atmosphere on the beach is highly competitive when enthusiasts race, speed-sail, wave sail and produce world champions such as the Dane, Bj rn Dunferbeck, who lives in the Canary islands and has long been known as 'El Chico de Las Canarias'.