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coachg
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Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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Or simply switch your feet & sail clew first until you build up speed, then flip.
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westender
Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 1288 Location: Portland / Gorge
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Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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Yes. That sounds like the Foolproof never fails gibe. Done in high wind, low wind, high speed or schlogging speed. It's very simple.
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jingebritsen
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Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 6:18 am Post subject: |
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over sheeting worx in the age of railroad tie narrow boards, race sails and aruba schmokin over powered conditions. i only over sheet now in very limited app's. namely, when jibing down a monster offshore swell that's been grabbed by a sandbar that jacks them up to make "the wall" look like a baby pool. hi, 7-8 foot swell, how did you nearly double? then i over sheet my 4.7 or 4.0 and ride straight down the wave face, flip the sail somewhere near the bottom, and sail back toward shore. unfortunately, that only happens a few dayz a year.
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PeconicPuffin
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Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 7:26 am Post subject: |
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jingebritsen wrote: | over sheeting worx in the age of railroad tie narrow boards, race sails and aruba schmokin over powered conditions. |
I think it's useful to distinguish between full blown racing oversheeting that you're describing (where the clew is sheeted in so far that the sail is essentially luffing clew first, the goal of which is to dump power) and the less dramatic additional sheeting by the back hand as the front hand extends forward into the bow and arrow or pool shooting position while entering the carve, the goal of which is to aid acceleration into the turn.
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Sailboarder
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Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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coachg wrote: | Or simply switch your feet & sail clew first until you build up speed, then flip.
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I had a nice day today in 20 kts with success on every jibe. It's the first time I'm consistent in swell and chop. They were not full planning jibes, not yet. If many were initiated while on the plane, I was far from planing at the exit...
Nevertheless, the oversheet discussion was key for me. In non-planing jibes, I was able to control the pull by modulating the oversheeting. Too much pull when it's time to switch feet? Just pull a bit more on the back arm. I never felt so much in control, even while tacking. I would then open a bit to increase power clew first, gain a bit of speed and stability before flipping the sail.
I don't think modulation can be done while doing a fully carved jibe, but I now have a feeling for what should happen with the sail now. Next step will be to get the weight transfert and feet switch right!
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feuser
Joined: 29 Oct 2002 Posts: 1508
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Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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That's great - thanks for posting your experience, Sailboarder!
I think you're right in that it's hard to modulate the radius of a planing jibe in mid-turn without losing speed and the consistency of the arc. Much of it is planning and execution, visualization, perhaps rhythm - to place the perfect jibe into the space afforded to you between troughs or in the space to the jibe marker on the slalom course.
I do know that I wobbled out of many race jibes when the guy in front of me splashed or stalled and I had to tighten the radius to avoid running over Pete (oops, no naming names....), and it's never as good, fluid and fast as a jibe that is consistent from beginning to the end. It's kind of like knowing exactly how fast you can take a corner with your car and then having to break for that cat in mid-turn.
I see videos of these PWA slalom guys who, unlike myself, actually know how to sail, and they have the same issues when unexpected things happen at the marker.
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isobars
Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935
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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 8:30 am Post subject: |
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Sailboarder wrote: | I don't think modulation can be done while doing a fully carved jibe |
My jibe tips explain that only after I learned to dynamically modulate my carve did my jibes start to click. That applies to and very much includes slashing while sailing back and forth and would include freestyle ... anything that increases our dynamic abilities. The same goes for sheeting modulation. Both produce and indicate better familiarity with and mastery of rig and board handling so useful in something as complicated as learning the planing jibe. If we can't yet jibe in a wavy arc with inconsistent power, even textbook-condition jibes may suffer; mine surely did.
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cgoudie1
Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 2599 Location: Killer Sturgeon Cove
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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:11 am Post subject: |
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Hmmm, here is a short low res video of me modulating so much mid jibe
that the turn radius goes negative (several times). Of course, I am
mostly powered by the swell, rather than inertia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HafXfAs-00w
-Craig
Sailboarder wrote: | I don't think modulation can be done while doing a fully carved jibe, but I now have a feeling for what should happen with the sail now. Next step will be to get the weight transfert and feet switch right! |
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PeconicPuffin
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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:13 am Post subject: |
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isobars wrote: |
My jibe tips explain that only after I learned to dynamically modulate my carve did my jibes start to click. (snip)The same goes for sheeting modulation. |
This is not how to learn how to plane through a jibe. It's what Peter Hart refers to as "dabbing" and everyone else as lack of commitment. You lose speed and add board bounce doing this, ending up with a nonplaning finish. While it's true that as a jiber advances it is possible to make subtle tweaks to board and sail during the carve to plane through, the learning jiber is infinitely better off making smooth, committed movements.
Hart has great video illustration of the pitfalls of uneven jibe technique in his various tapes and DVD's...check them out. He also illustrates that with smooth and consistent board and rig handling, the exact timing of the footwork is less critical (though you still want to go early as you learn the planing jibe.)
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PeconicPuffin
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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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cgoudie1 wrote: | Hmmm, here is a short low res video of me modulating so much mid jibe
that the turn radius goes negative (several times). Of course, I am
mostly powered by the swell, rather than inertia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HafXfAs-00w
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That looked like fun!
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