BeWindsurfer School, is a school where you can learn windsurfing, and is addressed to beginners and advanced level windsurfers, where either as beginners they would like to know the secrets of windsurfing, or as advanced level students would like to bring to perfection their skills on this particular sport.It operates throughout the year, is located in the facilities of the Nautical Club of Voula ,and the School’s instructor is George Karagiorgos, graduate from the Faculty of Sports Science from the University of Athens, with distinctions at National and Local level.
George Karagiorgos was born on the 31st of August, 1983 in Athens, and has graduated from the Faculty of Physical Education & Sport Science of the University of Athens, specialised in windsurfing.
His first contact with windsurfing was at the age of 15. Despite the fact that his residence was far from the sea, this did not prevent him from being in the water and training hard every day, regardless of the circumstances. Within the last 15 years of his athletic journey as a member of the National team of Youth and Men, from 1998 to 2013, he has won major awards and medals at National, Balkan, European and World level. In the meantime, he has collaborated with some of the greatest athletes of this sport including Nikos Kaklamanakis,Byron Kokkalanis , Michael Gebhardt (USA), Gal Fridman (ISR), Fabian Heidegger (ITA), Nimrod Mashiah (ISR), Toni Wilheim (GER). From 2002 until today, he has collaborated with Gal Fridman, Gold medalist in Athens 2004.
In 2012, graduating from the Athletic Academy of Athens, he begins his coaching career at the Nautical Club of Voula , establishing the Bewindsurfer Windsurrfing School. In 2016 he was the coach of the Greek Olympic RS:X Team at Rio Olympic Games and coach of the 5th Olympic champion Byron Kokkalani. From 2016 until today he is the coach of the National Windsurfing Team and the coach of the Hellenic Federation’s gym where all the National Sailing Teams are training. Along with his coaching carrier , he wants to impart his scientific and athletic knowledge, to individuals and athletes of all ages, who seek the secrets of sailing and especially windsurfing.
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