Windsurfing- Carve Gybe tuition from Sam Ross

The Carve Gybe (planing step Gybe).

Whether you have be trying it for 1 week or 20 years this video tries to break the gybe down into it's simplest components. Other videos on the Duck Gybe, Strap to strap and laydown gybe give you a few more options for variations.
Big thanks to Neilson Holidays, Life Cinematic, Starboard Windsurfing and Tushingham Sails.
Filmed on Location at the Neilson Holidays resort of Ortakent in Turkey.

[FreshWaterWindsurfer]

Such clear and concise instruction.  Also the quality of these videos is amazing.  Beautiful scenery, music and high quality camera, editing and film work.  Amazing contribution to the windsurfing community on youtube. Thank you.

[jk-olzk]

The Best jibe instructional out there! I've been windsurfing for 30 yrs and this is THE BEST. Eveything about it is perfect. The dry land, the multiple on water angles, shots of the footwork, the slow motions of all the key steps, everything. Well done and thank you Sam!!! JK

[razorgg]

This is so wonderfully helpful! i had sort of given up WS a decade plus, , broke a shoulder but, now i just bought 3 year old board instead of 30 year old boards, , just got back to waterstart end of last season, beaches closed from covid, , and i never had this clarity, , i would enter the jibe planing and then be lost, , and here Thank you, such a wonderful job of slowly calmly breaking it down, the land demo the on the water, the from the upper sail down at the feet to the leeward rail, just so very nicely done, and so Thank you for doing this

[Juan_lauda]

Key things that aren't explicitly mentioned that make all the difference:
1 ) look back over your shoulder at your wake when you carve. That will make you sheet in and keep speed
2) as you carve if you make sure that you are on your toes and your heels aren't weighted then it is impossible to stand upright and you will retain you speed
3) when you flip the rig make sure your arm is bent, then the boom won't swing heavily as the mast will be upright
4) flip the rig when you're on the new reach. Don't leave it too late.
And most important of all.
5) the faster you are travelling the lighter and easier the rig flip is.

An interesting use of modeling the action on the dry land using 4 of your cohort.
It helps A LOT. Congratulations on this innovation.
Thanks, Sam, I always study these videos.
Windsurfing is the Greatest Sport on Earth

[joomlahosting]

There's a very good instruction part by Mr. Ross from 2:40.
"Tiny" things like "sheet it and push push though the toes" valuable tips.
So for everybody's convenience I've subtitled it.
I hope it will benefit to you all!

Regards,
Ruben


The key areas we're going look at for that gybe are
where we look, so how we use the head,
the relationship between our body and the rig,
and then that last bit, what our feet are doing.

And the key thing with the gybe, is to make sure it's well prepared.
It's the only time we can think about it and move our body round.
But more importantly get our board pointing on the right point of sale
to get the highest chance of getting out smoothly and quickly.

So have a check around and make sure you can get to go.
Slide the backhand down the boom, sink our weight,
and sheet in and look down wind as you push though the toes,
to bear the board off onto board reach.

At this stage we're going to unhook, and sink our weight low again.
The backfoot comes out of the strap, and move across the board, so it gets into the gybe.

So for the entry, look down the boom, and over our inside shoulder.
And try to get to get a backhand next to heads.
The backfoot rolls over the inside and here we're carving with soft knees,
over the chopping conditions.

With the front arm extended and right back by the harness lines,
we're focusing on getting our head next that backhand to make it carve smoothly.

As we come to that midpoint now, we keep looking to the inside of the turn,
over that shoulder.
We're gonna start slowly ease out the backhand to move the sail to the outside of the turn.
And as you feel our body twist, you can now swith the feet.
So the frontfoot comes the backfoot, and we step forward.
Both feet on the inside rail and still looking out the turn
We're now on to the exit. We just slide our hand up to the boomclamp.
So keep looking out the turn, the hand slides up the boomclamp for the rigflip.
And as we keep looking for the exit, and release the rig, move the hand underneath,
and let the rig come back to us, rather than reaching for it.

So we stand up round and way out.
Once you clamped both hands back on the boom again,
stay low, look out the turn, and keep driving up for some time.

[VintageSoloHarmony]

Sam forgot to mention, before you initiate any gybe LOOK BEHIND and downwind in case a kite or foil is blasting up and about to overtake downwind of you! Also, be aware that some sailors are great at tacking, some great at gybing, but some just can’t get both, so don’t feel pissed.

[simonjandrell]

one of the nicest, most informative, slickest videos i have ever seen, defo one for cool-ade

[markchip]

Genuinely a calm, clear and masterful explanation of the process. Your use of well-timed and brilliantly edited slow motion breakdowns are the best I've EVER seen online!! If only I'd watched this decades ago - oh wait! You probably hadn't even been born then!
PS. I'm 60!!

[ricciuccio]

Sam your tutorials are the most amazing I've ever seen. I really did a fine job man!

[thomashansson]

Have watched a lot of gybe videos, but out on the water in mid gybe I dont really seem to remember anything. Then today I suddently remembered the ”look over your shoulder into the turn” instruction from this video and it really made a huge difference to my gybes. Think I will try out a new approach to practice now where I just pick out a single random piece of advice from the videos I watch that I can remember and then focus on just that for the next session.

[zoltanpfaff]

I really like your new publishings. Thanks for them!

[CC-mjzq]

Great vid. One thing I see a lot is near the end folks tend to hold the rig too long before flipping it. The rig almost tells you when it wants to go so I let it :)

[marcosgallodgp]

Really love your videos! very well done thanks a lot

[lookwind]

Nice videos watched all. . Do you planning to make video about rig setup, harness lines, mast base, fins etc. other tips?

[Jayt]

Jeez, when did boards get so massive!!?

[andrzejkondracki]

Cool, but do you have any videos on the same jibe but on a formula board which is way harder to carve with?

[tarquin]

Where was that filmed ? I want to go there!

[kzterminator]

Hi Sam nice tutorial I follow all your tutorials and they all very nice. However I got a question for the relative position of the head and hands. Among many tutorials on youtube that I have seen, some people does the gybe with a bend front arm and head basically over the front hand, some has both arms straightened and head is about in between. In your tutorial the head is quite near the back hand and the back hand is bend. Wish you could explain the difference between them. Thank you in advance!

[Ccana]

Hey Sam... Great videos. One question. When I do the rig flip, the sail is getting powered up quickly from the other side and turns my board. Any suggestions? Am I flipping the rig to early?
Thanks!