Hey guys,
I need some help when it comes to gybing. all the videos I can find in YouTube are carve gybing or mainly on short boards. I'm not sure if that technique translates to a raceboard or not. I've had a try, but it's not really working for me, I only turn so far down wind and can't get right around to the other direction. I know you can't carve gybe in a raceboard but I'm just struggling to gybe full stop.

Tacking is is pretty good for me at the moment cos that's all I can do, so I've gotten much better at that. I saw Simon do a gybe in his phantom yesterday and it looked nothing like what I expected. Seemed he pivoted the board right on the tail.

Are re there any good videos to watch that you can recommend or even just some tips.

Thanks!
Ants

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AntsC said..
Hey guys,
I need some help when it comes to gybing. all the videos I can find in YouTube are carve gybing or mainly on short boards. I'm not sure if that technique translates to a raceboard or not. I've had a try, but it's not really working for me, I only turn so far down wind and can't get right around to the other direction. I know you can't carve gybe in a raceboard but I'm just struggling to gybe full stop.

Tacking is is pretty good for me at the moment cos that's all I can do, so I've gotten much better at that. I saw Simon do a gybe in his phantom yesterday and it looked nothing like what I expected. Seemed he pivoted the board right on the tail.

Are re there any good videos to watch that you can recommend or even just some tips.

Thanks!
Ants

If you have lost momentum, then weight on the back foot sink the back a little. Easy to do on the thinner tailed older boards as in your avatar. The board will pivot around really quickly, basically on the spot. Before you get to the opposite direction move your weight forward and board will pop back out. Flip the sail and you are away. Depending on the volume of the board and your weight you may need to step back along the board a little. May have been what Simon was doing? We used to have fun doing this in the dark ages on the Wally boards.

However if you are able to keep the momentum up, you should be a able to gybe as on a short board. I saw a tip somewhere that has helped me lately. Look where you want to go and not at the board or rig or your feet. Same as most sports I guess, look well ahead and the subconscious works out all the little mechanical movements.

Hi,
This is what I do in light non-planning conditions.
Light wind off the plane they will be big slow arcs, make sure you keep power in the sail as you turn to drive the turn, which means you will need to keep changing the sail angle as the board turns. Put a bit of weight on the outside rail of the turn as it will help it move the board around; I always think the difference between shortboard and longboard (non-planning) is like the difference between the lean of a motorbike vs a car in a turn.
Once the nose is >180deg off the wind direction flick the sail over and use the momentum of bringing the sail around to help bring the nose around and finish the turn.

You can pivot gybe by standing on the tail to pivot the board around but be ready to run up the board and flip the sail once the nose swings round, these are fun to do. You can also do this on short boards.

I went through some old GoPro footage and put this up on youtube.
Hope this helps.

If you have the centreboard down you can turn using the eponymous "centreboard turn":)
You sink the tail a bit and sink the outside rail. That presents the centreboard at a small angle of attack that takes the nose around quite nicely.

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NotWal said..
If you have the centreboard down you can turn using the eponymous "centreboard turn":)
You sink the tail a bit and sink the outside rail. That presents the centreboard at a small angle of attack that takes the nose around quite nicely.

I'll have to try that, always make sure the centre board is up to gybe.

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stanly said..

NotWal said..
If you have the centreboard down you can turn using the eponymous "centreboard turn":)
You sink the tail a bit and sink the outside rail. That presents the centreboard at a small angle of attack that takes the nose around quite nicely.

I'll have to try that, always make sure the centre board is up to gybe.

Here is a pic of me doing that. Although it is worth having the centreboard down only in flat conditions when you are not doing any pumping at all.