auguswinsurfer
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gybe, why I always fall!!!
What the fuck can be happening that I always fall when y try to gybe!!!???
I'm tired of reading tip & trick to gybe, everybody can gybe except me!!!!!
I always fall when I try to pass the sail to the other side!! the mast falls into the internal side of the curve, pls help !!
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robsurfer
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| posted on 6-3-2004 at 08:39 |
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When you gybe you need to keep looking in the direction the board is going. If you start to look a the rig at any time then you
usually fall in.
Once the rig has gone round you need to pull it across your body at the last min to stop the clew from hitting the water, then grab the
boom with the other hand and sail away.
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justal
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| posted on 6-3-2004 at 09:09 |
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Easy hey!!! 
The first thing is to stop worrying about it, you certainly aren't the only person who can't gybe and it usually takes years for people
to learn it. I know it took me a couple of years to learn, and I get out on the water quite a bit.
The one day that you do make it though you will wonder what all the ufss was about because when you get it right it feels so easy!
Its difficult to give tips without seeing where you are going wrong, but if you get the board carving a nice steady arc, then the rig
will almost take care of itself. Try to keep the board fairly flat (don't put your weight over the tail, but keep leaning forward to
keep the board flat and maintain mastfoot pressure. The way I learnt was to set up for the gybe by:
1. Changing my grip so that both hand have an overhand grip on the boom and I move my backhand down the boom.
2. stepping out of the back footstrap.
Once set up I then just initiated the turn by sheeting in, bending my knees and leaning forwards and into the turn. I then just counted
to 2 and let go...somehow as if by magic it all started working when I did that. I stopped thinking about the rig flip, just counted to
2 and let go, then grabbed the boom on the other side.... It might work for you, just give it a go... the worst that can happen is
you'll get wet!!
Let us know how you get on.... and keep that board flat and carving, don't stall it as the rig flips.
Al.
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dunk
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| posted on 6-3-2004 at 12:30 |
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My tip for what its worth,
A rig flip is a rig flip, try and get out on a long board in light winds. Get yourself right up wind, then flare gybe, do the flip, as
soon as you've gone round go straight into a gybe the other way and repeat over and over until it becomes really slick.
Remember in the carve gybe, when you let go with your back hand to throw the mast in front of you and look where your going not at your
feet.
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preacherman
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| posted on 8-3-2004 at 14:34 |
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if the rig is always falling on the inside then you may be flipping the rig a little early and it then slices to the inside because you
haven't been able to get your new back hand to it. If that is the case, then there's two things you could try:
1) flip the rig a little later!
2) once you've shifted you're old front foot to the new side, really concentrate on dropping your weight onto its heel. That will make
you commit to the turn in the latter stages and it may tighten the arc, which in turn may help to bring the rig round.
I do agree with dunk as well. The thing that slows a lot of people's gybes is the rig flip - if your hands know what to do because
they've practiced on a long board then it leaves you time to concentrate on getting other bits of the gybe right.
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Shaka
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| posted on 9-3-2004 at 13:30 |
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Its all personal so what works for me may not work for others but...
Keep rig away from your body espceialy when flipping the rig.
Also I found when learning that holding the mast with my hand (hand clostest to the mast on the new tack) when flipping the rig helped.
The masts spins around in the hand easy - something less to worry about. Can form bad habits but still gets me out of hairy gybes even
now.
Good luck and just go for it.
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