S-turn exercise, with bonus chapter on jibes! Balancing wing and foil part 2.

If you can successfully launch onto the foil and wing in a straight line, you have actually found one or more ways to steer, at least enough to correct accidental course changes. Congratulations! The next logical step is to learn how to jibe on the foil. Lots of people at that stage hear about doing S-turns. How you do them matters!

This video will explain the method that works best in jibes. Then you can combine it with the glide and speed control exercises I’ve described in previous videos, (links below and at end of the video) to practice all the skills you need.

As always, if you have not already, I recommend you watch and at least get started adopting the posture and control techniques I teach all my students, as described in a previously released video. The instructions in all my videos work best in that context.

Best posture and control:

Balancing wing and foil part 1: Speed control exercise

Glide exercise:

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:59 Carving vs yaw / swiveling turns
01:35 How to make carving S-turns
02:41 How to turn when flagging your wing
03:38 How to use my exercises to learn foiling jibes
04:14 Why these techniques work
05:20 Why carving turns is preferred over yawing
06:32 Summary and credits

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Credits:

Minor disclaimer: In the story I gave at the end, I quoted a student. I was of course paraphrasing, because I probably don't remember his exact words. But the gist of what he said is well represented.

Some of the audio for this video was generated by the AI based text-to-speech provided by Eleven Labs. Most of it was a “clone” of my own voice:

I got the surfing footage (under the fair use for education rule) here:
How to Surf Better "Bottom Turns" Plus Carver Surf Skate Tutorial Ep. 1:

[andreatopcat]

Great! For a beginner like me your videos are the best and most precise on all of YouTube! I look at them second by second with great attention, thank you David!

[MakeTechPtyLtd]

Wow, great skills. That looks so fun.

[vittofossati]

What's the axis foil you are using in this video?