Sailboarding at the Summer Olympics Sailboarding at the Summer Olympics Sailboarding or Windsurfing has been one of the Olympic sailing events at the Summer Olympics since 1984 for men and 1992 for women. All sailors use the same One Design boards, daggerboards, fins and sails. The equipment is chosen to allow racing in a wide range of sailing conditions, as during the Olympic Games events must take place as scheduled whether or not there is enough wind for planing. Multiple medal winners include Alessandra Sensini and Barbara Kendall with three medals; and Bruce Kendall (brother of Barbara Kendall) and Dorian van Rijsselberghe with two medals.
Leading activity that the "self" is a process of real-life activity that is connected to, and positioned within ongoing societal activities. Rather than residing in the depths of a human "soul," the self is constantly re-enacted and reconstructed. The self engages in practical life tasks and collaborative transformative practices, and contributes to purposefully "changing something in and about the world (including in oneself as part of the world)" (Stetsenko & Arievitch 2004: 494). Leading activity Leading activity is a concept used within the tradition of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), to describe the activity, or cooperative human action, which plays the essential role