FAIRHOPE, Ala. (WKRG) — Surf's up and hang ten! This windboarder caught some action near the Fairhope Pier.

WKRG News 5 Photojournalist Jason Garcia captured this stunning footage of a windboarder cruising at 16 miles per hour at around 3 p.m. on Wednesday in Fairhope.

However, the footage left some of us in the newsroom asking, what IS windboarding?

Windboarding, also known as windsurfing, involves a normal surfboard with a sail attached to it — almost like a miniature, personal sailboat. Unlike regular surfing, windboarding utilizes both the speed of a wave and the wind to propel the rider forward.

While this particular rider makes it look easy, windboarding is a balancing act of adjusting the sail and your body weight to stay upright. In some conditions, wearing a harness is recomme

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