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[quote="qwertyjjj"] | techno900 wrote: | qwertyjjj,
Sail steering, clew first halfway through and after gybes.
Sheet in with back hand, lean sail forward to intiate, lean back as wind pressure gets stringer on sail, bend down, then sort of lean mast outwards to continue turn, the flip part I find happens easily after all that is done correctly. |
from your description you doing it all wrong... many things
like what " clew first halfway through.." means?
clew first means - clew pointing into the wind. Not clew pointing forward.
You can be clew first only when you completed the jibe and sailing back perpendicular to the wind. It is impossible to point clew into the wind halfway into the jybe.
Recall, your sail in light air gybe is always perpendicular to the board. (Dasher, Cribb DVDs...)
You start not by pushing mast forward, but by leaning mast into the wind outside the turn (sail perpendicular to the board).
You lean it more and more as you turn (sail still perpendicular to the board)
At 6 o'clock the outside incline of the mast is maximum.
You can start flipping it shortly after or wait untill clew first. Regardless after 6 o'clock you start bringing mast vertical (sail being still perpendicular to the board). Say you want to come to clew first.
You now sailing back in opposite direction with mast practically vertical and clew pointing into the wind. Again sail is perpendicular to the centerline as always during this maneuver. When 5 minutes or one second later you decide to flip, you flip (yanking mast is most important here, but this is outside of your current problems)
As for your stronger wind problem being stuck at 5 o'clock- the most important thing when you initiate is to step back, load the tail and bend in your back knee (when you initiate the front foot is straight). Then as you turn the front foot becomes weightless and bend and ready to be switched.
In light air bending your knee should bring your eyes to the boom level. In strong wind it is not bend but "crouch", trying to touch the tail of your board with your butt. Eyes well below your booms. Say you are at 6 oclock. At that moment, Sail perpendicular to the centerline, mast pointing outside, and also because your nose is up sail is inclined back, not being exposed so much at this 6 o'clock moment.
But never push back against the sail. you are standing on the back foot (one foot, not both) and simultaneously pushing down on the booms. Two points you are applying pressure on the board. One is back foot on the tail on the centerline. Second - mast foot , you suspend a good portion of your weight through the booms down. Old front foot is weightless at 6 pm and you switch it.
Regardless you didn't follow my advice of googling for Peter Hart vid.
Here it is for you. IMHO it is the best on light air turns. It is even better than Cribb's intution section on light air jybes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsDI_M3D8H8
watch it 20 times and after you come back from the water watch it more. There too many fine points.
This vid helped me tremendously. I was doing it all wrong, then i was stuckin light air location, I was after the surgery and the light air was m only option anyways, so I had spent my time mastering it. Huge progress, that instantly had translated into my high wind jibing. |
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