Flaka
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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 manouver.
Alongside Vulcan and its variations, Flaka is the key manouver 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)
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