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The first thing that everyone needs to know about gybing is that it is not a relaxed transition. You need to be committed, concentrating and fully body powered. When you are free riding with feet into footstraps and harness it’s very comfortable and relaxed. But gybing is a fully athletic transition . Don’t be realaxed . Focus and spend energy through the transition in order to get out of the gybe fully planning
Since Lars jibes very similarly to mee this video helped me so much thanks nico.
I don't fail my jibes. I just practice my water starts accidentally
That duck jibe blew me away! 11/10
Thanks Nico, your videos are so helpful. Ive been sailing for 3 decades, with breaks for having children, and at 61 I'm still chasing the planning carve jibe. All your suggestions have helped me immensely and I'm getting there. We're heading into winter in Australia but I'll be out there practising your moves every chance i get. Keep the videos coming I'm a huge fan! 😊
There are so many things to take care about in a short term and no jibe is similar to each other because of gusts, chop and so on. Some windsurfer can jump a frontloop before they can do a proper power jibe. Greetings from Germany
Nice job Nico :-)) I'll tell you what: I have been windsurfing for decades. For a long time I really had problems during the transition phase of the jibe when you are flipping the sail. My board slowed down, I was able to flip the sail but then I found myself in an awkward position in the new tack because the board went too much upwind, slowed down considerably, and most times I found myself in the water. It was no good! Then I found the trick! You have to "really" lean forward when you get into the turn and be "assertive" about it. People get scared of leaning forward because they think that something bad is gonna happen with all that speed, they lean backwards, the board slows down to standstill, and they fall into the water. You've got to do just the opposite: leaning forward aggressively saves you from going into the water :-) The second thing is to flip the sail as you are carving. If you flip the sail after the board turns, it will just take too much time to grab the other side of the boom, and again you find yourself in an awkward situation because the board loses all its momentum (you are not planing), and sinks, and again you find yourself in the water. Great video though.
I was going to suggest Lars swap his grip from under hand to over hand before the Jibe, I sail with under hand grip on the front hand, and had to get into the habit of swapping my hand over before I jibe, but I see you caught that.
Thanks Nico. Improving takes a lot of thinking and mind preparation. Good detail spoting is essential. I have improved a lot in the previous years thanks for foiling, wich is 95% of my riding now. But I think many should give it a try. Foil is more demanding but overall easier : you sail smaller, no chops (dreamy smooth ride), you glide longer depowered, so you have way more time to concentrate on your movement, 10 times more opportunity to train as you can fly as soon as you have over 12kt (with a wave sail). And if you don't make it correctly it simply doesn't work whereas you can do it incorrectly for years with a fin and still manage to avoid swimming. And this leads to carve incorrect technique in your musle memory. Just don't think foiling as an extention of slalom.
Lars is a good mate and your critique will help a lot of people with their jibing. I was happy when he moved his front hand forward before flipping, but sadly that was after he went underhand.
Excellent video Nico.
Nico, can you do a video like this one about foiling jibes?
The most useful advice I've given myself... never wait until the edge of the strong wind to practice jibing. Initiate the jibe well within the wind zone. I tend to wait until I'm at the edge of the lake where the winds are gustier and end up losing wind as I throw a jibe. I'm going to have to get some footage to you! Your videos are awesome!
Good job nico. I think that one of the biggest problems is that after the apex the surfer wants to take the same angle again and thus always falls out of planing.
Thanks for this very profound weedio on jibing . The toe/hill switch advise is the last piece of the puzzle for me .. cant wait to get on the water to try it out
Great video, glad to see such an explanation, know that in China the technical explanation video about windsurfing is almost blank, only a very small number of amateurs translate your video and other windsurfing videos on youtube , bring us some materials that can be learned, thank you very much Nico ! Thank you from the distant Chinese fans!
send it!!!! so cool to see this footage and everyone that windsurfs knows the struggle!
He’s not sheeting enough and not bending his knees enough. It’s almost better to sail in overpowered conditions to learn this. What happens in that situation is that the moment you unhook, you have to get real low, into almost a sitting position with your knees very bent, to stay sheeted in. That’s where the term “hanging from the boom” comes from. You take your back foot out of the strap, still saying in that low position, and then, rather than actively trying to turn the board, just let the sail pull you upright so that your head is above or slightly ahead of your knees. But keep in that sheeted in position with your back arm. You want to go from that low, seated position into what I consider to be a typical, athletic stance - leaning slightly forward, but with the head and shoulders up, knees slightly bent to be absorbing bumps. You see similar a similar position in almost all sports - tennis’ ready position, skiing, basketball, a goalie in soccer awaiting a free kick. It’s balanced and strong, and you can make adjustments very easily from it. If you let the sail pull you into that position with the sail sheeted in, the board will begin to turn, simply because the sail’s Center of effort will be pulling you into an arc. From there you can make a slight adjustment with your feet, lifting your front foot or pointing your back foot, to shape your carve. But he’s so upright that every bump gets transferred to his upper body, and so of course he’s going to be off balance. And if you let the sail sheet out when you unhook or take your back foot out of the strap, the board is going to straighten out and you’ll have to try to force it through the arc, which is difficult to do.
great vídeo!! pls do more like this one😊
As I said I have problems with my gybes but one thing I noticed with Lars was he wasn't sliding his front arm up to the mast pre flip.. he got better at the end which helped..If you don't do that the rig is too far away from you when you try and get it on the other side..he's going well though..I doubt I'd be able to try as many and take the stacks..lol's