Guide to Better Gybing

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"Guide to Better Gybing" Yes, it's classic stuff from 1989 , Proffesional windsurfers gives hint's and explaining, how to better gybe. And also explained common mistakes when doing that and how to avoid it !  A movie from Robert Masters (the best windsurfing movies producer of all time) . In this movie is almost all top windsurfers in 90's.  The windsurfers:  Alex Aguera  Randy Ames  Mark Angulo  Kelby Anno (Bruno)  Tina Baylis  Beik Benson  Stephan Van Den Berg  Tim Berkstresser  Anders Bringdal  Peter Cabrinha  Alan Cadiz  Brian Caseiro  Angela Cochran  Pat Corelli  Paul Coutts  Dana Dawes  Dave Deisinger  Brad Duffy  Björn Dunkerbeck  Anick Graveline  Fred Haywood  Trevor Hunte  Cort Larned  Jay Laswell  Nathalie Le Lievre  Kit Low  Tom Luedecke  Tim McGain  Maui Meyer  Robbie Naish  Axel Ohm  Tom Pace  Mark Pederson  Bruce Pederson  Chris Radkowski  Rush Randle  David Ross  Dave Russell  Raphael Salles  Nevin Sayre  Matt Schweizer  Rhonda-Smith Sanchez  Steve Sylvester  Robert Territheau  Scott Trudon  Mike Waltze  Greg Willis  Steve Willrich  Ken Winner  Bruce Wylie

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00:00The most important thing is practice makes perfect.

00:30Probably the first step before you actually can get out on the water is to have the proper

00:38equipment.

00:39It really makes a big difference.

00:40You've got to have a fast board and a fast sail and comfortable equipment.

00:44If you have your fin back, the board tends to track better, but it actually makes your

00:52turns more drawn out.

00:53And it also keeps you from pointing real well.

00:54If you have your fin forward, it allows you to point real well and turn quicker.

00:59But it may make the board a little bit unstable at high speeds.

01:06A lot of times it's equipment, using too big of fins, not leaning into the turns enough,

01:13not leaning forward enough, leaning back too much and stalling the board out.

01:20But a lot of times it's simply equipment.

01:21There are a lot of boards around that I couldn't even jive.

01:24I don't think enough people pay attention to where their foot straps are.

01:36They assume that the manufacturer puts them in the right place.

01:39This isn't always true.

01:41I sort of have a little bit of a motto, he who hesitates gets killed, kind of.

01:55You don't go into anything half-hearted.

01:56You go into a jive of half-hesitating and you'll just go vroom, vroom, vroom, flat,

02:02flat and fall over.

02:04So you've got to commit yourself and be confident and go for it.

02:11Go!

02:14Another thing you want to consider is where to put your booms and how high off the deck

02:42you want them.

02:43I like mine a little bit higher so that I can actually pull down more.

02:46A lot of people like low booms for some odd reason.

02:49I think it's actually more uncomfortable to sail.

03:13I'd have a video camera on the beach and I'd have them go do half a dozen jives, maybe

03:23a dozen jives and then bring them in and if it's got an instant playback you can show

03:27them right there exactly what's going on.

03:29A different hand position on the boom or if they want to learn boom to boom or grabbing

03:33the mast.

03:34I'm not saying any one way is better, but teach them all the ways and let them choose

03:42which is easiest for them.

03:53I think if you really want to do a jive you really have to commit to it.

03:57You have to pull that back foot out and really jump on the tail and turn the board.

04:02Get that leeward rail dug in and really go for it.

04:07A lot of people just kind of skip across the water and they don't put a lot of pressure

04:11on the leeward rail and the board doesn't come around.

04:16I think you kind of have to have a go for it attitude and you're going to crash a lot.

04:20Everyone does, but you're going to learn a lot faster.

04:27If you break the advanced jive down into just a few basic elements it's a lot easier to

04:33tackle rather than if you try and think of it as a whole.

04:37About a jive?

04:42Completing it.

04:43Yeah, that's it.

04:44No, it's setting up for the jive initially because if you get the right set up pretty

04:50much of the time you can make the jive.

04:54But if you kind of hesitate at the last minute and don't set up for it just right, some of

04:58these new boards we have with really hard rails and stuff have a tendency to spin out

05:01and go the other way.

05:03The most important aspect is probably setting up for the jive.

05:08I think it's just like in a race looking where the mark is, looking where the waves are,

05:13looking if there's any gusts, any other sailors.

05:16And once you initiate the turn the rest sort of follows through by itself.

05:20It's thinking about it before you come to the mark and doing the process of the jive

05:35which everybody's done a thousand times before but when you're in a race it's a little different.

05:39It really needs to be done well and fast.

05:43The other thing is keeping the rail firm all the way through the jive and not letting the

05:47rail bounce up and down and you do that by taking your front foot and locking it really

05:52tight into the strap, pressuring with your back foot on the rail and keeping a real smooth

05:57pressure on the rail and on the board and not letting the board bounce up and down.

06:02You do that by keeping your legs really loose but tight so they act as like shock absorbers

06:09and if the board starts to fall away you pull up with your legs.

06:12If the board starts to come up as it hits a piece of chaff you push down on the rail

06:17and keep that nice even pressure.

06:26I take the back foot out of the strap, put it on the leeward rail and then the important

06:30thing then is to really sink your body down low and get down to get the centre of gravity

06:36down lower and then you can crank the board around by pushing on the leeward rail.

06:47Another factor is bend your knees.

06:49I don't see enough people bending their knees in their jives.

06:51If you watch some really excellent sailors, Robbie Nash type sailors, any of the world

06:56class guys, you'll always see that their legs are bent as they go through the jive and they're

07:01leaning forward.

07:03If they get in trouble they bend their knees again.

07:05You don't really have any recovery when your legs are locked out so lean forward and keep

07:10your knees bent.

07:11If you get in trouble I bend my body and get a lower centre of gravity.

07:15I would recommend as you're learning how to carve a jive on a shortboard to forget really

07:24about switching booms.

07:27Practice carving the board one at a time.

07:32If you're learning how to carve a jive on a shortboard, you're going to learn how to

07:40forget about switching booms.

07:41Practice carving the board 180 degrees from one tack to the other.

07:50You will end up clue first and probably fall, but that's okay.

07:57We all started falling.

08:04I think most people's problem is that they lean too far back in a jive.

08:08I try to concentrate.

08:09If you snow ski you'll understand what I'm talking about is keeping your weight forward,

08:13keeping your head on top of your feet and never getting too far back.

08:17In a jive I always concentrate on leaning very far forward in my turn, which coming

08:22out of the turn it will help you have more drive.

08:25You won't be stalling out on your tail.

08:28If you're coming out of a jive fast, then you're doing the right thing basically.

08:32If you're coming out of a jive slow, most likely you're leaning on your tail too much.

08:38The most important things to think about going into the jive is maintaining your speed.

08:57The faster you go through the turn, the easier it is to jive the sail.

09:08One of the common problems I see is that people try to jive around a dime.

09:19Good planing jives aren't done that way because your speed has to stop or slow down

09:24real radically in the middle part of the jive.

09:27The best thing you can do is have a nice continuous arc all the way through the jive.

09:38So starting off with good speed.

09:41As you go into the turn, you want to keep your weight forward.

09:44That means bending your knees, bending at the waist, keeping the arms straight,

09:48keeping the boom away from your chest.

09:50Whenever you pull it back, it chokes the rig.

09:53When you're in the process of flipping the sail, flip it out in front of you,

09:56keeping your elbows out of your chest.

09:58Because again, if you flip it here, you're leaning back to get out of the way of the rig.

10:02You want to keep it forward by extending your arms.

10:06And then coming out of the turn, flipping the sail and again staying forward.

10:17It is easier to jive when your mass stays quite close to your body.

10:26Especially as the sail is crossing from one side to the other and you're switching booms.

10:32If you let the mass get away from you,

10:35the sail, more likely than not, will be powered up and will be pulling away from you,

10:44which makes it harder to jive.

10:51Another problem I find is that people have throwing the sails when they're changing direction.

10:59They are a little hesitant.

11:02They either let go of it way too early, when the sail still has a lot of power,

11:07or they hang on to it with their back hand and they sail away clue first.

11:21I think one of the key elements of jiving is to be able to jive.

11:26I think one of the key elements of jiving is to slide your hand back.

11:31If you watch most of the good jivers, they slide their hand back on the boom

11:34and they pull down with their back hand.

11:37And by doing that, they do a couple of things.

11:39They immediately cut the power off in the sail because it over sheets the sail completely.

11:56When considering hand movement, I would say that there's not one prescribed method.

12:04Hands should be comfortably placed and utilized to flip the sail around,

12:11but really, you have to be able to do it.

12:15Hands should be comfortably placed and utilized to flip the sail around,

12:20but really, you have to be able to do it.

12:23But really, whatever feels best, whatever is comfortable.

12:26But really, whatever feels best, whatever is comfortable.

12:29Sometimes I hold the mast, sometimes I just go from boom to boom.

12:32Sometimes I hold the mast, sometimes I just go from boom to boom.

12:35It varies on different kinds of jive.

12:38Whether you're bouncing around, if you're on a race board,

12:43you're more likely to have a more drawn out turn.

12:47And so there's more time to, say, grab the mast for an instant.

12:52Another important factor is over sheeting.

12:55Another important factor is over sheeting.

13:12Another important factor is over sheeting.

13:15A lot of people figure that they're going to slow down.

13:18Normally, they slow down by sheeting out.

13:21If you sheet out, you really don't sheet out.

13:23You have the illusion that you're losing speed by sheeting out,

13:27when in reality, you're just opening the sail up.

13:29The way that we sheet out is to actually over-sheet the sail and pull the sail in,

13:33or keep it sheeted.

13:51I take power in the beginning of the jibe by sheeting in,

14:06sometimes over-sheeting a little, driving through the turn,

14:10and then as soon as I swing the sail around, I take my front foot out

14:13and put it in front, just in front of the foot straps, just behind the mast.

14:17And what that does, it also keeps the weight down in the front of the board.

14:20Now when the sail's swinging around with my other hand,

14:23I grab it and give a little scoop of wind,

14:25which sort of gives me a little extra thrust out of the turn

14:28before I sheet in and continue on.

14:33I like looking at Maui Meyer as a person that jibes really well, who's a light sailor.

14:38Maui, if you watch him real closely, he'll really pull down on the boom with his back hand.

14:44And if you watch any of the good sailors, they all slide their back hand back on the boom

14:49and pressure with that back hand.

14:51That weight transfers through the boom, down the mast, and onto the rail of the board

14:56and keeps that pressure on the board.

15:19At the gorge, you really have to read the terrain and turn off of one substantial chop

15:41and make sure you do a lot of banking right on that chop.

15:44If not, you're going to go over the top of it and probably get a little air,

15:47which might spin you out or you'll land on the rail and get off balance or something.

15:56If you are to start your jibe halfway between two waves,

16:02then you only have half the distance before running into the next wave.

16:06So it's very important to initiate your jibe at the crest of one wave.

16:13Jibing is very different depending on what board you're on and what conditions you're in.

16:19For instance, a high-speed jibe and strong winds and bouncy water,

16:25I try to get very far forward on my board, trying to keep the weight more on my front foot,

16:30keeping my head over the front of the feet.

16:43When I sail at a choppy place like the gorge, for instance, on the outside it's really choppy,

16:49I tend not to commit as much to the jibe by leaning forward.

16:52I lean back a little bit more and try to balance over the top of the board

16:56instead of in the front of the board.

16:59It's kind of a compromise, but you don't get in trouble as easily.

17:13Snow skiing, when you're in the bumps, you don't try to turn on the downhill part of a mogul,

17:19you go slamming into an up mogul, slamming into the surface coming at you.

17:23Same with windsurfing.

17:25You want to pick the point you're going to jibe on, and basically I call it a berm.

17:42There are two different footstrap techniques for planning jibes.

18:10One is footstrap to footstrap, which I like to do when it's really rough and the wind is good and strong.

18:18That way I never lose contact with the board.

18:20The other technique is footstrap step forward jibe, or step jibe.

18:25The reason that one is so good is that you move your weight really far forward

18:29by taking your back foot, stepping up by the mast step.

18:33Try a lot, it depends.

18:39In high wind, you usually keep your foot in the same position all the time.

18:43You flop around the sail, you grab the other side and then you jump around.

18:46But in lighter wind, I usually, actually as I let go of the sail, I change foot positions as well.

19:04Generally on the quick snappy jibe, you switch your feet very quickly.

19:12Actually, some people are doing it halfway through the jibe.

19:19And they have to do that because they come around quicker,

19:24but also they have to get farther forward on the board

19:29in order to keep up speed.

19:34If you do a longer drawn out turn, say as I do, more often than not,

19:41I can stay back in the straps because I have speed through the turn.

19:47And I don't actually switch my feet until after the sail is jibed.

19:58If it is not windy enough so that you can plane through your jibe,

20:23you will have to switch your feet sooner

20:27and perhaps place your new forward foot farther forward on the board

20:34in order to keep the board more level

20:38so as not to sink and drag the tail of the board which will slow you down.

20:58So it's important to step forward and keep the momentum going forward

21:02and keep your weight where the volume is in the board,

21:05the wide part of the board which is the middle of the board.

21:08And the board just naturally, continually keeps planing and you don't have any problems there.

21:15Usually, right after I'm flipping the sail, I pull my foot out of the one foot strap,

21:20switch my back foot straight, try and get straight away back into the other foot strap.

21:24Try and get into the forward foot strap on the other tack as fast as possible.

21:28Once you've got that done, then you can try and set back into the back foot strap.

21:43I've always jibed the sail and then switched my feet

21:47rather than doing both at the same time or switching the feet first then the sail.

21:52So really there's two movements in jibing.

21:55One is lower body, the other is upper body.

21:59Either jibe your feet first, then jibe the sail, or jibe the sail, then the feet.

22:09The biggest thing is coming through your jibe really fast, just making it smooth.

22:15When it's smooth, you don't lose your speed, you don't lose your power.

22:18When you try to pull it too tight or too drawn out, you lose your speed either way.

22:30In rough conditions, you sometimes don't want all the speed that you have,

22:36so you might want to sheet out a little bit and decrease the speed,

22:40or you just want to go for it and have all kinds of speed depending on the chop.

22:48In flat water, you want to just go in and jibe full speed

22:51and really get a lot of the board in the water when you jibe.

22:57Then you come out really fast and you get nice, fast jibes.

23:03I go as fast as I can all the time and just commit, really commit to my jibes.

23:10If I'm really powered up, just get on the tail and the boards just turn real fast and hope for the best.

23:19A common problem is that people round up too much at the end of their jibe.

23:23They tend to finish on a beam reach or higher.

23:26When you should actually finish your jibe, complete the jibe, flip the sail, sheet in,

23:31be in the straps on a broad reach on the other tack.

23:37In order to exit going fast, this sounds kind of funny, but after a good jibe,

23:43as soon as you sheet in, you can take your back foot and do these little short squiggles.

23:48It's a hard thing to explain, but you're moving your board just to get it playing.

23:53You're working your board with your feet.

23:55I tend to do this a lot when I'm trying to get my speed back up again after a jibe.

24:14The difference between a slalom board and a long board isn't that much for a carving jibe.

24:20The main thing with a slalom board, you can commit a lot more and lean further forward.

24:24Also, because it's got a shorter bottom rocker line and a shorter overall plan form,

24:29it can really help you get a lot of speed.

24:32I'm going to try to get a little bit more speed on this board.

24:35I'm going to try to get a little bit more speed on this board.

24:38Because it's got a shorter bottom rocker line and a shorter overall plan form, it can go into a tighter radius.

24:45With a long board, because it's a lot flatter, you have to draw the turn out more.

24:49You're going to lose a little bit of speed, even when it's really, really windy.

24:54I tend not to commit as far forward.

24:56I don't lean as far forward into the turn or over onto the rail as much.

25:01There are definitely distinct styles when it comes to jibing.

25:06There are definitely distinct styles when it comes to jibing.

25:09It's most desirable to be able to do all different styles.

25:14You have, taking two extremes, Robby Nash, who does a very tight, quick jibe, but slows down more,

25:26relative to, say, myself, who does a more drawn-out jibe, but I come out of the jibe with more speed.

25:35He has to pump a lot to get back to speed, but he goes less distance.

25:41I'm certainly not saying that one is better than the other, but there are places for both kinds of jibes.

25:48Going into a mark, say, and there are people on the outside of you,

25:53I would love to be able to jibe as tightly as he can sometimes.

25:58Conversely, it's very important to come out of your jibe with speed,

26:04and sometimes you can just go right around people because they do a tight jibe and are pumping to get up to speed,

26:12when you never lose speed by doing a more drawn-out turn.

26:17I am trying to learn to be able to do both kinds.

26:22The best thing is to just really keep over your board, try to keep your weight over your board as you're leaning in the rail,

26:49not too much in your rail, or not holding back too much.

26:53The fin will pop out or you'll push it too hard.

26:57You just really want to set that rail at a nice turn and try to pick a spot away from your buoy as to come out of it as close to the buoy as possible,

27:04but still at a good arc that you're coming out totally powered.

27:08I can't do that, though.

27:20People have to realize that jibing is not a two-part thing, it's a one-part motion.

27:37It's not really sheathing, push your foot, turn the sails, turn your stance, flip the sail, grab.

27:47It's a real smooth, gradual, one motion.

27:52The more smooth and natural you get it, the better it's going to come out.

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