Any tips on the Racing Gybe?

In light winds I am having a 50/50 success rate. In stronger winds I seem to get pulled downwind as I am tipping the wing and trying to carve round.

Any tips/secrets that people found useful? Thanks

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MilesH said..
Any tips on the Racing Gybe?

In light winds I am having a 50/50 success rate. In stronger winds I seem to get pulled downwind as I am tipping the wing and trying to carve round.

Any tips/secrets that people found useful? Thanks

You need to go faster into your gybes. The goal is to flip the wing when you're going down wind as fast as the wind so there is no apparent wind to effect the wing. Stronger the wind the faster you need to go, that's why you're getting more in lighter winds.

During your turn once you dont feel the wind (at the time your switch hand in jibe) , put the wing upside down and when you feel the wind again quickly pop the wing while you switching hand. You have to get some speed it's like loading the wing before turn trying to take as much wind as i can, dont raisz the wing to much otherwise you wont be able to flip it upside down ( everytime the feeling is like a slingshot, redirecting the power you loaded in your wing).
If you feeling downwinded your probably trying to raise the wing up to late in the turn when you are in front of it, you have to raise it right before you are in front of the wind . most of the manoeuver is made while the wing is paralell to wind direction and the board facing downwind.

Is it this one? If so, just go fast enough into the turn.

No taavi this is a regular jibe in your video.

At 2:10 (music is a bit loud)


At 1:53

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youdigsurf said..
No taavi this is a regular jibe in your video.

@youdigsurf the jibe in my clip does not look regular at all. I just don't know if it has a name or not.

they look the same to me
Taavi's jibe is not a regular one for sure, the LE is staying forward

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Taavi said..

youdigsurf said..
No taavi this is a regular jibe in your video.

@youdigsurf the jibe in my clip does not look regular at all. I just don't know if it has a name or not.

Yes i rechecked , not regular, it's called the tavii jibe now

Taavi's is the raccing/Heineken gybe withe the strut end passing behind the head.

The other gybe I like is the lay down gybe, which starts like a 360 then you bring up and over.

Mike

IMHO with both the Heineken and the Laydown extra speed helps,not necessarily faster than the wind but enough to depower the wing somewhat.

Problem for me in higher winds is sea state.
It takes a lot of skill ,a long mast or both to carve at full speed across the chop lines.

One thing that helps (lay down jibe) if you cannot go that fast is to go into the turn in a more decisive way,carving a bit harder, the sooner you get that first half of the turn done the sooner your wing will depower and stop accelerating you.

If you sheet in and start bearing off slowly you will carve a huge fast arc (beautiful in flat water) that usually ends in a spill for me in medium to big chop.

mcrt
I totally agree, flat water v waves/chop it's a lot harder.
You are spot on with points about speed and decisiveness.

Mike

well well the race jibe well executed ( the one you call laydown) you dont loose a lot of speed hence the name






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the one i do in the above at 2:54 is very slow and with almost no wind , the lake consisting of wind tunnel/corridor( i dont how you call it in english) and there none where i do the manoeuver.

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compared to a jibe in light wind at 1:40 with the end of the wing hanging down i had to pump at the end of the turn to recover.

well executed the racing jibe is the most efficient for those condition, i think the turn radius is shorter too.