Kite Foil Jibes (Gybes) & hydrofoil turning principles, PART 1

This tutorial explains jibes in detail. It covers heelside to toeside jibes, as well as toeside to heelside jibes. The tutorial explains kite control, and hydrofoil control, and explains the mistakes you may be making.
The next step is to learn taxi footswaps, then foil footswaps, after that you can look at more advanced jibes covered in Jibes Part 2.

[chandra]

the best tutorials ever! seriously!!!! thank you!

[julianamcassol]

exceptionally simple and good video !1 the control bar on the screen is awesome! thanks

[drbfitk]

Great video & instruction you guys! Emphasizing the practical points you need to utilize in varying wind conditions. Breaking it down into different components, kite control, body movements. & wind direction really helps in execution of the technique! 👏

[cefirmeza]

Nice work. Your tutorials are the easiest to follow. Keep up

[ermanakbay]

This video helped me get my first gybes yesterday. Thanks! You really gotta send the kite all the way to 12 before even starting to turn the board in really light conditions.

[EcommerceMindset]

Incredible tutorials on this channel. Amazing job guys!

[michaelmirfield]

Excellent tutorials, so well explained, thank you!

[alexleung]

Finally, hydro foil tutorials, thank you for the hard eork

[dmullane]

still the best tutorials, well done, keep it up.

[toastskate]

Riding goofy and regular I see. That's talent.

[vboceanvibes]

You can downloop the kite to complete the jibe in lightwind. Then you don't have to pay so much attention to the kite because it will maintain power through the loop and the transition.

[giraopedro]

Awesome info! Well done! Can I ask what location is this? Thanks!

[ryanmitchell]

Thank you for another great video. What size Duotone Pace board is that and what are the details for the foil wing you are using?

[az_bob]

I have a wake foil, not sure it is ok to do kite?

[becienzo]

The real question is: where are you able to kite always alone with this nice steady wind and flat water?? I envy you so much

[davidbruton]

Great Video. I just started trying gybes yesterday and I'm anxious to apply these tips in my next session. There's one thing I'm a little dubious about. In your explanations of 'Yaw' and 'Banking', to me it looks like you are mostly using the pitch and roll of the foil in both cases -- less in 'Yaw' and more in 'Banking'. I'm skeptical that the yawing force (what the rudder of an airplane does) has a significant effect when foiling. From my experience, trying to steer the foil as if it were a twintips (using what would be called yaw on an airplane) is kind of pointless. To me it looks like in your section on 'Yaw', the rider changes the direction of the nose of the board by adjusting the roll of the foil and compensating for changes in pitch.

[chrishofer]

Hi alex, thanks for your great videos!

I have mastered the gybe but o have a problem coming out of the turn. My foil speeds up so much and i struggle to control of my speed . Its if i become a slingshot out of the turn .
The only way i am able to reduce speed is to bring board down onto surface and create drag.

Any tips will be highly appreciated!

[charlesmesnier]

Rebel is a good kite to learning foil ?

[zenflare]

Down loop the kite in light wind, and your jibe will be much better.

[adamkoch]

I love you. “if you cant explain it simply then you don’t understand it” ~ Albert Einstein