How to Jibe / Gybe on a wingfoil! Tips and tricks to learn your turn easier and faster.
KG Coaching by Reckless Riders Wingfoil & Windsurf
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What is up guys and girls! I hope you are all having fun and getting out on the water as much as possible.
In todays video we will be looking at one of the most important and usually first turns you will be learning during your wingfoil career. The jibe (or gybe as many write it)! Although it is one of the basic turns it still poses quite a challenge for most but with the little tips and tricks I will mention in this video I hope it will make your learning process faster and smoother.
Some of the top tips:
1. Go fast!
2. Neutralize the wing and focus on the carve
3. Catch the wing in front of you
I hope you find everything you need in this video and if you have any questions please let me know in the comments. I also always like to take suggestions for future videos!
If you enjoy the video please like and share with your wingfoil community and of course, if you are not already subscribed to the channel, then... what are you waiting for!?
Have fun and see you on the water!
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How to Jibe / Gybe on a wingfoil! Tips and tricks to learn your turn easier and faster.
KG Coaching by Reckless Riders Wingfoil & Windsurf
44,509 views
What is up guys and girls! I hope you are all having fun and getting out on the water as much as possible.
In todays video we will be looking at one of the most important and usually first turns you will be learning during your wingfoil career. The jibe (or gybe as many write it)! Although it is one of the basic turns it still poses quite a challenge for most but with the little tips and tricks I will mention in this video I hope it will make your learning process faster and smoother.
Some of the top tips:
1. Go fast!
2. Neutralize the wing and focus on the carve
3. Catch the wing in front of you
I hope you find everything you need in this video and if you have any questions please let me know in the comments. I also always like to take suggestions for future videos!
If you enjoy the video please like and share with your wingfoil community and of course, if you are not already subscribed to the channel, then... what are you waiting for!?
Have fun and see you on the water!
1) keep eyes on the horizon. Looking down won't help balance. Even if the wing is in the way. Eyes up. As if the wing wasn't there.
2) Front foot pressure. As you accelerate through the down turn, it takes more pressure to keep the foil down. Maybe your 'hip' suggestion is helping with this.
3) Relax. It's fun. Tense muscles are the enemy of balance. Be Chill.
4) Use ankles, like a skateboard, to adjust your turn to keep the board/foil under your weight. This is a faster and more nimble adjustment than your center of mass. Practice carves on a skateboard in the parking lot.
5) Be sure when you enter the turn you don't have either foot way towards the weather side. This will cause you to start turning back (the wrong way) in the middle of your gybe when you've released your back hand. Bring your leading hand up and over your head to help with this and overrunning large wings in light air, too.
6) Practice 'entering' the gybe by doing a LOT of short 'down-turns' on small (even tiny) waves or wakes. Practice turning deeper and deeper and then back up. If you notice a lot of 'swing weight' in these downturns, your mast may be too far back. If you have to move back from taxi/pumping position to foiling position, then move the mast forward.
7) Don't panic when you get through a gybe on foil. Relax. Pump the board if you can bring yourself to do it. Keep your wing way 'out' for power. Gently add forward foot pressure until your board is almost splashing down before switching feet (you'll splash down momentarily, but this is a HUGE help for stability).
See you on the water.