INtuition Gybing & Core Skills Windsurfing

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INtuition Gybing & Core Skills Windsurfing

“This has been reviewed as the world’s most acclaimed and best reviewed windsurfing technique movie ever.  It is in a totally different league to other windsurfing technique movies in terms of quality instruction and production. If you want to learn to gybe, you need this movie! It takes years off your learning curve and ensures your windsurfing future is hassle free. It’s more like buying software for your brain than buying a average DVD as it radically improves your windsurfing. It’s a no brainer, you cant live with out it!”  Guy Cribb

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Learning to Windsurf is an amazing experience and there is various milestones to reach on your windsurfing journey. The first major accomplishment is to be standing on the board sailing in a safe direction without having to uphaul the sail every 30 seconds.

However, uphauling does build up the core muscles which you will need later!! When you find that magic balance point of you, the sail and the board all working together you will then be on your way to sailing in stronger winds and having a great time! Learning how To Windsurf then becomes a much faster and exhilirating learning experience.

The next goal is to turn the board either completing a tac or a gybe. The tac is easiest to learn and the most important as you need to be able to sail comfortable upwind and tac to change course. Picture yourself climbing a mountain. The safest way is to zig zag up to the top of the mountain. This is the same for tacking upwind.

The sailing position for sailing upwind is called close haul where the sail, and mast is upright and 45 – 50 degrees to the wind. If you go beyong having the sail beyond 45 – 50 deg to the wind, the wind will be forced around the other sided of the sail and may cause you to fall off. Therefore, sailing ‘close’ to the wind is an importnat skill to develop. The tac involves you then to step around the front of the mast keeping both feet as close the centre line as possible.

The windsurfing gybe is more technical to learn and can be a major hurdle for people learning how to windsurf! This involves turning on a downwind or broadreach course and this is where most of the falling in occurs. The reason being is you have to move to the back of the board where the footstraps are normally loacted and the fin and this is a very unstable part of the board.

However, if you are quick and keep the knees soft and bent with both feet equally distributed over the centre line the sail should naturally swing round for you to catch the other side. then you step forward positvely and your new sailing direction!

If you can tac and gybe and sail up,down and across the wind on a broad reach your next amazing feat is to use a harness line and get at least one foot in the back foot stap. The feeling of having the board lift you onto the plane with you just sailing on the fin opens up a completely new world of fun, speed, fast turns and windsurfing tricks for you to explore.

Of course you will no longer be a beginner and learning how to windsurf will become tremendous fun. There is one last milestone to reach however and that is the water start which will save you from many trcky situations onec you venture onto the sea and into stronger winds.

For more information on how to windsurf check out the video below which gives an introduction to how to windsurf moving onto more advanced carve gybes.

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The planning carve gybe is the mecca, the pinnacle, the bench mark that Windsurfers must strive for to gain recognition amongst Windsurfing buddies and communities. However, the forward loop is becoming the standard to reach as the learning curve for windsurfing steepens every year.

This is largely due to the improvements in kit design, distribution of quality information and better Windsurfing Instruction from windsurfing centres. And the growth of windsurfing centres around the world with warm waters, constant windy conditions, excellent windsurfing kit and professional instruction.

Despite these improvements I would say the carve gybe is still a technical skill to master which has many components that if mistimed or misunderstood will result in failed gybes time and time again leading to hours of frustration. It was a couple of months of constant practice in the warm, sunny conditions in Cyprus that I managed to eventually master the carve gybe and the feeling was the best ever. In fact I had not been more excited since I conquered the water start.

The reason why it took me so long to learn the carve gybe was the whole thing was entirely too mechanized , too planned so by the time I got out on the water I had either forgotten everything or I was too stiff with no dynamic movement or synchronization. It wasnt bad enough for my fragile confidence that my buddies were using me as a gybe marker to turn around every time I fell in.

My turning point was when a local dude got me to Windsurf around his board and he shouted out the actions as I attempted to gybe around him. The water was only waist deep. After 2 hours I eventually got it and the roar from the crowd sat on the beach was enough to make me feel like a pro!

I realised I did not need to get all the components right for the carve gybe, just the main ones such as plenty of speed in the approach, bending the knees (sitting on the loo) with lots of mast foot pressure to keep the board flat, unhook gently and place the foot on the inside rail, push the sail into the turn, extending the front arm, looking in the right direction and then the change of the feet followed by throwing the rig forward and stepping forward.

Once I got the speed and the mast foot pressure sorted the board more often than not took its own course and I came out the other side. So, anyone struggling with the carve gybe, make sure you get lots of speed, stay sheeted in, lots of mast foot pressure and you will be more than halfway there. Good Luck.

Brin May

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