2 SIMPLE STEPS, to improve your WINDSURF POWER JIBES ✅ | Windsurf Tutorial

In this windsurf tutorial I show you two simple steps that you can do, to improve your power jibes!

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[allanasp]

This was excellent. After 40+ years of windsurfing I' m starting to get the hang of it. What I see a lot among those who are still struggling with the jibe is that they tend to carve too long so they end up upwind with the nose of the board and at the same time they have lost all their speed. Go in with full speed and keep the rig forward at all time. Carve no longer than 2 seconds and shift the sail going broad i.e. do not wait untill you are upwind because then it is too late😮.

[kyledrake]

I haven't been sailing for 2 years yet, but found that one of the biggest mindset changes was to try and keep the pressure as much as possible. Firstly, downward pressure before unhooking. Secondly, not to just stomp the foot across, but rather place it gently and squeeze my weight across by sheeting in. Thirdly, when bringing the rig back upright, always keeping the pressure down on the front hand. Fourthly, keeping this down pressure through the foot swap (shuffle, not stomp), then not upsetting my balance when doing the rig flip.
Squeezing my weight across by sheeting in rather than just stepping made it feel like I was speeding up into the jibe rather than losing speed before it started.

[klimaanlagenjochen]

Hi Mario, even If I'm already jibing pretty well, I have been waiting for a tutorial like this for some friends for more than 20 years. Great. Thank you. Jochen

[kevin_ellenhofman_vanhuffe]

Hey Mario, lovely to see that there is also some great attention to beginner "problems"! Even after twenty years this is realy usefull. I'm learning my neighbour how to windsurf and still (because I'm a teacher myself) the analytic approach of your vlogs (technical) makes it more easy to teach and do the manoeuvre step by step! Question: I didn't really understand what's your homespot is? (Name?) To me it seams worth the visit!! Cheers, Kevin.

[windsurferjoris]

Thank you Mario, this video was very helpful. I've learnt a (hopeful good) exercise you can do on the land: Try to stand on one (bent) leg on your board as 'low' as you can, and feel the leg get warm (slightly 'burning' feeling) . Try to keep your balance while doing so and don't look at the board or your feet. Repeat the exercise between 5-10 times (every day). This will give you more stability and balance. kind regards, Joris

[jibehype]

Super!!! Das erklärt auch warum die vielen Detailtipps oft nichts bringen. Die Vorfreude auf die neue Saison ist schlagartig gestiegen.

[carloscox]

Goog explanation to improve the gibe. Gracias amigo Mario

[gatesurfer]

Staying sheeted in also keeps you turning. If you open up the sail, you’ll straighten out. Even if you somehow managed to weight the inside rail, the sail will want to pull you the other direction. That’s just the way sails work. Then you will have some of the ugliest wipeouts imaginable. I think, almost all jive tutorials fail to mention that the moment you unhook, you’re going to feel a lot of pressure on your back hand. They just say, move your back hand back on the boom, as if that alone will be enough to compensate for that pressure. But You actually have to be ready to take all of that pressure on your arms the moment you unhook. And you’re going to feel it mostly on your back hand. So the tendency is to put most of your weight on your back foot, and that of course kills your speed and brings you off the plane. It also makes you stiffen up as you say. The trick is to stay in that knees bent position but still have enough control over the sail To stay sheeted in until it’s time to flip. It’s tricky because that knees bent position is inherently leaning forward so you feel like the sail will just pull you down into the water. It also shows you the importance of rigging the correct size sail. Too large and you can’t control it and can’t stay sheeted in. Some people like to rig way too big because it helps them plane. But then they don’t have the strength to stay sheeted in through the turn, not without leaning way back on the board.

[JorgeTorregrosa-wlvl]

Great advice! Which harness brand are you wearing? Thanks

[henq]

Is the direcion of the “pressure on the mastbase” *downward* / vertical (towards the bottom of the sea) OR *forward* / horizontal, in the direction you’re going?

[markusrapke]

Kannst du mir bitte sagen wo am Geiselwindsee ein guter Einstieg für Wingen ist? Wochenende passt der Wind 🎉😂

[tjarkmchenky]

How do i get pressure on the mastbase in a Duck Jibe?

[martin.leisepinkler]

Thank you or senk ju wie wir in Germany sagen würden

[frankobi]

Das Video ist super, die Englischversuche eher nicht so. Bitte wieder zu deutsch zurück, das war wesentlich spontaner und witziger.

[markchip]

I wish I'd had Youtube 30-odd years ago - it would have made my life SO much easier in retrospect!

[RonaldvandenBerg]

Great tips, for me the advise to put more pressure on the mastfoot by ‘hanging low on the boom’ helped me to progress

[ricos]

Super Video
Aber ich vermisse die Deutsche Sprache

[andrewlapides]

Mario, thank you very much for your channel. Excellent video presentation and very thorough detailed verbose explanation. I like it! But, if I may, couple thoughts that resonate to this episode.

First, about "bending the knees.". The thing is that in normal life, walking, running, doing any sport, we can't just bend the knees only. There are three joints involved - ankle, knee, hip. We can't bend just one of those. And in normal situation it doesn't matter what we do - bending the knees or bending the ankle - the other ones are bent automatically. Except two sports, downhill and windsurfing.

In skiing if beginner is concentrated on bending just the knees, what happens? The boot is very stiff and his ankle do not bend, the tibia stays perpendicular to the ski and the skier ends up in the back seat. Unlike real life he doesn't fall back because of the ski tails, but it may be a bad thing, because the technique is ruined.Hence you need immediately to correct this habit and to be able to dominate the boot in your ankles and sit / squat / compress like you do it on the floor, moving your knees forward and keeping centre of mass above your feet. The motto "bend your ankles" vs "bend your knees" helps tremendously, as well as softer boots.

In wsrfng before attempting power jybes the skill of speed sailing must be acquired first. We are so used to pulling back against the power of the sail, and this is what we actually do for hours, that is very difficult to abandon this when attempting to jybe. We unhook but still instinctively pull back on the sail hard with our hands. No matter how much you will "bend your knees", we still be pulling on the sail back. Here bending the ANKLES paradigm helped me a lot.

Totally agree with necessity to load the mast. After 40 years of failures I was able to get it by combining simultaneously "bending the knees" with Guy Cribb's "sideswipe", sending the mast forward along the centre line BEFORE even trying to turn. I do those two things simultaneously - upper body, sideswipe, sliding hands in proper position (pretty much as you describe in this clip) and inclining mast forward as much as possible, and bending the ANKLES.

Pretty much what you are saying with some semantic differences. You of course much much better sailor than me, but I am much much older hahahaha

[thomasbohn]

Fantastic tips. I’m that 30 year windsurfer still struggling with the planing power jibe. I’m off to Bonaire in March to get the time on the water and conditions needed to finally nail it🤞 I took a clinic there last year for the first time and it was extremely helpful. I find at my home spots the wind isn’t consistent so when it does blow I just want to blast and practice goes out the window😬

[dairyairman]

I was a little confused by this video. At first I wasn't sure if you were showing good jibes or bad jibes. I played the video over again and concluded that the jibes you initially showed were supposed to be "bad" jibes, but to me they looked better than my "good" jibes. I guess what you say is true, that it is hard to unlearn good jibing technique once you see the light and understand how to do it properly.