@@zdenekpavlis1274 Hey mate, that depends. If yr just starting out, then stick with the flimsy plastic ones. As you get faster and further back and in the harness, the back end will become twitchy.... that's when to invest in the 30cm glassfibre ones and ditch the centre fin. I got my fins from Decathlon, but not sure if they do them still, but should find them somewhere. It took me over two years to get in the footstraps on the STX.... so keep at it🤙

@@zdenekpavlis1274 If you can't find the Olaian ones, try these: bluefinsupboards.com/products/sup-race-fin-us-box?cjdata=MXxZfDB8WXww&+ads&+google+shopping+xml&cjevent=2947d810d26411ef8150aa430a18ba72

@@DILLIGAF-e4r Thanks, I have it now as a kind of a backup to RRD FireMove 135 - I started both footstraps only last year and it took me 4 years to get there :) Basically 4.5 years ago I started again after 20 or so years - before just no planing no harness on 80s stuff :). Btw. I find it easier to water start on hardboard than on this thick cruise ship / mind you I started water start also last year with low succes rate ;).

@zdenekpavlis1274 You and me both!🤣

@@gyzfr6 yeah, 9.5..... bit of a handful, but makes 8 or 6.5 feel tiny now!

@@WindsurfFlorida This was my my old beginners board, which I'd never really got to grips with before getting rigid boards. I was going to get rid of it last summer, but thought I'd have one more go on a light wind day..... glad I held on to it now! And can paddle board on zero wind days🤙

Cheers! Bloody foils🤦‍♂️

@@momagic8912 That is a very good question! It was mainly lack of wind and my lack of low wind water start technique that hampered the water start. Although a 6" thick inflatable board may look a handful to water start, it is no harder than a rigid board if the wind is enough. I normally inflate to ~17-18psi, but today the electric pump battery was low (I forgot to recharge it...🤦‍♂️), so I only pumped up to ~15psi with the hand pump. Didn't feel much different to normal, but reckon it would have flexed a bit if there had been any chop. You'll see mate on his IQ foil in Raw Pt2. He got about 3kts more max speed today, although the STX was planing slightly more than he was foil borne. I'm a big fan of the STX in low wind conditions!

@@meh0354l It is mate; 9.5 on the Tabou is great, but not quite enough wind today, so dug out my old inflatable training board👍

@@lucaantonucci857 Cheers mate!🇮🇹🤙🇬🇧

@@Windsurfwannabe The time pressure of drifting downstream doesn't help an already difficult thing to learn! Full respect for keeping at it! Keep a count of how many attempts until your first successful one!🤙🇬🇧

@@danielecosta9409 Although I'm not really experienced enough to give advice on techniques, I would recommend getting a Power XT mast extension and practice putting on more downhaul/outhaul when in deep water. This has got me home a couple time when I been out with big sails (8 & 9.5m) and the wind has picked up. If the wind does pick up and if there is a safe lee-shore for the walk of shame back, I tend to stick with the big sail rather that downsize and just turn the session into "survival practice", so hopefully I can get back come the day it hits for real with no escape route. And if I'm out there alone, I carry a VHF radio. A mobile phone in waterproof case is next to useless as the touchscreen doesn't work right and the battery drains really quick. So my main tip in my limited experience is keep going out and scaring yourself!🤙🇬🇧

@@ignacevanbuggenhout6353 Cheers mate! I was going to put boots on, but saw a kiter coming out barefoot. No bloody way was a kiter going to show me up!

After a while you just dont feel the feet any more. The hands are always the worst.

@@speedquestwindsurfing Agreed mate. I hardly notice.my feet now.... hands are murder though if wind is cold!

@@mangoman420 Never be without it💪

@@Windsurfwannabe It will seem impossible until yoir first one. Even after that, it willl be difficult.... then eventuslly, after hundreds of tries, it becomes as normal as tying a shoe lace.... There is no short cut I'm afrsid, just repeat, repeat, etc etc... But for a guide by numbers- kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGa9gnxoec2Eh9Ufeature=shared

@@RokoWoju I agree! From my limited experience, the Cheetah, while not the fastest, is quite forgiving and stable through a wide wind range. Even if/when I get faster sails (Point 7/Neil Pryde etc), I'll def hang on to my Ezzy's for fun!🤙🇬🇧

@@DILLIGAF-e4r totally agree, but I think Cheetahs in particular is a very good freeride sail, with my wife we have whole range that culminates for me with Lion 7.5 even though I also have Cheetah in the same size, my brother uses severne and he loves arguing with me that his sails are better, but somehow every time we meet once a year somewhere on holidays I always just whoop his a...e ( drives him mad) and I am 15 kg heavier and when conditions get marginal he simply can't understand why I am much faster than him, I also believe he picks his kit for show and stats not for skill level and conditions, After few years we just fallen in love Ezzy sails and between my wife and myself we have Ezzy shop at home - I am sure this is how Graham Ezzy paid his mortgage .🤣

@@RokoWoju Love it!! I'm sure I've financed the Ezzy household for some niceties too! Glad to hear you're kicking arse with the Ezzy and showing up team Severne!💪

@@stratosmuse Thanks! I very nearly rigged 5.4, but the wind hadn't yet picked up as forecast, so I went 6.5. 10 minutes later, it picked up as forecast🤦‍♂️ Too tired to come back in and swap down by then....

@@MrSquinker This would be true .... if he windsurfed...🤣

@@bobbinabout1317 Agreed mate; although my pumping technique is still pedestrian at best right now and in need of refinement🤦‍♂️

@@kaik3705 Cheers!🤙🇬🇧

@@gTa9000be Hallo! Manchmal wird mir im 7,5-mm-Neoprenanzug zu heiß und ich muss die Kapuze abnehmen, um mich abzukühlen. Mein 5,5-mm-Neoprenanzug ist im Winter in Ordnung, wenn die Lufttemperatur höher als 20° ist. Meine 3-mm-Handschuhe sind gut, die Hände frieren nicht und verspüren keine Schmerzen im Arm. Ich habe es nicht mit der offenen Handfläche versucht. Wenn das Wasser kälter wird, fange ich vielleicht an, Buhrufe zu tragen!

@@sarp9099 No worries.... It's Portland, Dorset, UK. That was a rare easterly onshore wind 18-25Kts. Normally offshore. Summer temps 15-25°.... winter 4-10° 🤙🇬🇧

@@DILLIGAF-e4r thanks a lot and keep enjoying!

@@sarp9099 kzbin.inforMQ-XHg0bgU?feature=shared Florida looks more appealling though!

@@joakimhansson1322 It'll take more than a bit of ribbed rope to stop my bad words on the water....

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@@joakimhansson1322 I'm pretty sure there's a sweary half way through this one during a failled jibe. I didn't remember saying it until I played it back🤦‍♂️🤙🇬🇧

@@DILLIGAF-e4r Yes, some foreign language again 😁 Nice to see even the pros struggle in for example Lüderitz. Ok, sleight breeze of 50 kts and well seized speedboard of more than a foot wide, but still 😉

@@joakimhansson1322 kzbin.inforMQ-XHg0bgU?feature=shared Suddenly Florida seems quite appealing!

@@tobylane4935 Yup.... and I copped for it just as the wind picked up, having rigged for a bit less.....🤦‍♂️

@@Hydrosurf_ Bracing........

@@pouleriknielsen9145 According to the local anemometer (see link at look at 10am-1200 on Mon 5 Jan) it was av mid 20's Kts and max gusts low 30's Kts weatherfile.com/location?loc_id=GBR00005

@@meh0354l I honestly don't know how anyone does waves! They are super human....! I struggle in a relatively tiny chop!

@@DILLIGAF-e4r i manage, but they are realy hardt to pull rig. I kind of was forced to learn waterstarts early on :p my best is 25 knots in 2 meter waves with i'am realy happy with since my pr is 26,5 knots! Where are you sailing?

@@meh0354l It's Portland Harbour, Dorset, UK👍. 25kts is epic in waves! I struggle to get that on flat water!

@@DILLIGAF-e4r does it feel like the board is sticking to the water? i like to play abit with mast fot and bom hight to get more speed. mastfot is abit risky if the gusts are powerful i think tho. i'am always getting told to lift the heel on backfot and get the sail more back and close to the board. I'am not there yet tho

@meh0354l Yeah, I play with mastfoot position. I've started shifting it right back until the nose starts to lift.... you're right, too far forward and the nose feels stuck to the water.

@@kriskwwong You are correct! And if I could confidently jibe port to starboard, I would have.... but didn't want to waste that hard earned upwind space on port tack on the inevitable failled attempt. Port to starboard jibes will be 2025's project...🤙

@@slogo8879 Great advice, very useful. Cheers🤙

@@DILLIGAF-e4r I'm not a fan of the underhand grip myself (but I know that many do use it), not least as hopefully eventually you will get good enough to have just your fingertips resting on the boom to guide the sail when fully locked in! The key thing for your beach/water starts is to extend the front arm. By doing so you are effectively increasing the angle of attack of the sail and so generating more lift (like sheeting in, but with the front arm instead), and automatically moving the mast nearer to where you want it to eventually be (i.e. upright). It also looks like you could position slightly more off the wind (nose toward downwind just a little) for that first beach start, but hard to tell from just a video of course. Fair play for getting out there in the cold though!

@robertallison1580 TBH, once the wind picked up it just became survival..... anything resembling technique got thrown out the window!

@@DILLIGAF-e4r When you are out alone (in the cold) you should really learn to waterstart (properly). Your technique of just trying to put two feet against the board and how you pulled up by the wind only works in really strong winds, but then you have different problems. There are plenty of good YT-vids out there of showing how it's done and what not to do. Robert is right, extend the arms, pull in the backfoot and step on the board. If done right, it's almost effortless.

@@ivandimitrov1507 The wind was high teens just as I entered the water.... I thought the forecast wind wasn't going to hit until an hour later.... then it picked up within minutes and it was too much effort to then come back in to swap down a size...🤦‍♂️

@@ivandimitrov1507 Here's the wind trace from yesterday.... picks up bang on midday.... 10mins after I get in the water.... weatherfile.com/location?loc_id=GBR00005

@@DILLIGAF-e4r Yeah, it rally picked up suddenly. It is a pain to go out to change sizes and I hate it (where I sail there is a lot of seaweed close to the beach that makes it even worse) but if it gets to a point where it is difficult to water start I would swap down a size or two.

@@ivandimitrov1507I guess the reality here is that these choppy and strong wind conditions are not very common... only once in every 6-8 weeks; the wind is normally from the other direction, so nice flat water blasting conditions. So I just accept that on those choppy days I don't achieve much quality windsurfing on my freeride gear and just treat it as a wet fitness routine and expect to get dumped upon the nice and forgiving lee-shore

@@tomnahrgang5316 You're right, and we forget how lucky we are to have this beach. Pebbly enough for no sand to stick to gear and a safe walk of shame back when it all goes wrong. Onshore is painfully choppy, offshore is a dream with the flat waters🤙

Yes. And the wind always seems to be blowing down the river.

Never mind haha. 10 degree water that's not bad but I don't know if I could take 4 degree air. I recall my hands going numb at 10 with a wetsuit. With a dry suit I could tolerate 7. I think body type is a big factor. I used to know a short stocky guy who sailed no problem when snow flurries were falling.

@@pmenchions 4° air is ok with 3mm gloves. Only my feet got a bit numb yesterday.... I'm delaying booties as long as possible.... and not until all the kiters are wearing them.... which might be never🤦‍♂️

@@pmenchions Yep, balmy mild englosh channel.....🤙🇬🇧

@@dawsonfarr3527 Cheers mate!

@@dawsonfarr3527 Absolutely stick with it! I only started jibing a matter of weeks ago and only comfortably in the straps a few months before that. The slope is linear.... we'll all just on different points of it and each point is equally rewarding!

@@gyzfr6 Good man! A beach start in a chunky sea is worth 10 flat water jibes! (In my very modest opinion!)

@@pawel7318 Hiya mate; yeah people give me funny looks with all the body armour.... but when yr out there alone and nobody can hear you scream, it becomes part of the normal setup.... The main purpose of the knee pads is to stop wetsuit knees wearing out when crawling on to uphaul...but have also saved my kneecaps a couple of times. The elbow guards are after I nearly shattered bones in a big catapult a year ago (and also to stop hole when clambering on to uphaul). I'm an ex-dinghy/cat sailor, so gloves were the normal as always pulling on sheets. I wear them year round, even in baking hot summer, so never feel feel any cramp. Even if I don't need gear in the summer (life jacket, body armour, gloves, VHF radio, divers knife etc) I carry it anyway, so I'm used to in in the winter when out there alone. Today's session was never going to go well in terms of windsurfing.... it was more of a general workout in the water; any distance covered was a bonus! Yeah, I've considerd foils, but have so much more to learn and develop on the fin, I reckon that'll keep me going for a decade or two...🤙🇬🇧

@@WindsurfFlorida Hey Mate! It was indeed a tad uncomfortable. But mitigated by always having a forgiving lee-shore (I know yr a yachtie, so will appreciate this!). I could have gone a lot further out on stbd tack but if it had gone wrong, I'd have been washed up in a nasty little corner or washed under a bridge with an hour of flooding tide still to go, resulting in a long walk of shame..... I was trying to get round a little headland on port tack to get a decent run parrallel to the beach, but the wind was a few degrees too southerly. Even if I'd made it past, I reckon I'd have got thrown about..... but worst case was always just a long, if painful, walk back through the surf with my gear..... Overall.... stressful but rewarding🤙🇺🇸🇬🇧

@@peterdoherty876 In the words of the great ancient Stoic Epictetus, “We must undergo a hard winter training and not rush into things for which we haven’t prepared.”......in order to have a great summer season🇬🇧🤙

@ Love it! Pretty sure Seneca had a Futura too 😆

@@peterdoherty876 Nah, he would have had a Tabou 3S 107 lt and a 5.4m epace rigged and trusted the forecast🤦‍♂️ I knew today was going to be a hiding to nothing..... but will be more memorable than a lot of earlier 'successful' sessions in the year..... Now following you !🤙🤙🇬🇧

@@DILLIGAF-e4r So good Dilli

@@speedquestwindsurfing Got proper smashed about... but will always remember it mate🇨🇦🤙🇬🇧

@@dmlewis1234 The water and air temp were about 10°, Gloves are Oneil Psycho 1.5mm. I wesr gloves year round and swap to 3mm gloves when air is below10°, so don't even notice them. The water temp here only drops to about 8° at it's coldest in Feb~Mar, but the air can be sub zero and that's what hurts....Never tried open palm, but gloves work fine for me🤙

@@gyzfr6 Yeah, the waters ok at 10°, it's the air that's bitter cold. If my feet get a bit nippy, I get in the water to warm them up again... Which is quite often, given how rubbish my jibes are🤦‍♂️

Very good planning mate! R u in the uk or somewhere else?

@majdisakli7469 Thanks!! Yes, south coast Uk🤙🇬🇧

@@WindsurfFlorida I saw yours! About 20° warmer....!

@@gustavfogelstrom3595 Thanks for the comment! This is a sea water harbour in south UK, Portland, Dorset. It is like a lake really.... except for the tides amd saltiness! Come and join the party🤙🇬🇧

@@whynowind I'm with you on that mate! I was a bit more aggresive on the gybes before Xmas, but a two week break and I'm having to relearn it all again and being decidedly pedestrian in it all🤦‍♂️. I like your guide (you could publish that!)... although I tend to use the "fail at least 100 times before expecting to get it right..... any sooner was a fluke" philosophy.... 🇺🇸🤙🇬🇧

@@DILLIGAF-e4r I failed at jibing way more than a 100 times! No shame with that. Some get it fast, and I wasn't one of them! It took me 3 years of trials and errors to get the move relatively fluid and successful fairly frequently. Fixing one thing at a time helped me a lot, rather than trying to think of everything at once. For example, I sometimes forget to let my hand slid next to the boom clip during sail flip. Small things but consequential nonetheless: the rig won't stay straight but will tilt back as you try to reach the other side, and the extra weight unnecessarily loads the back of the board with immediate effect with lose of speed and momentum. If I have built confidence and repetition with the other steps ahead of that one, I would focus on making my hand slide automatic! Anyhow, jibing is less of a mind game and more of the memorization of a choreography IMO! But mastering it brings the fun in windsurfing 10 folds! Keep at it man, you're close!

@@whynowind Great words and advice again! I guess I'm still in that happy zone of actually getting round the jibe.... finessing it and not losing as much speed with be this year's project. Having said that, I can only plane into the jibe from stbd to port... the other way, port to stbd, still feels alien and near impossible....🤦‍♂️.

@@whynowind I meant to ask earlier.... how do you cope with only 7 months beach life a year...? 5 months off the water would drive me up the wall!!

@@DILLIGAF-e4r Same here! Initially, I only worked on Stbd to port. The weird part is that when I finally managed port to Stbd, I started to suck again at Stbd to port. I think I took it for granted and wasn't as focused and regressed a bit on that side. The move is perfectible and after a while, you know when you executed smoothly or not - even when you stay dry. I also tend to jibe well when I'm fresh and when I'm executing the move more "aggressively". It usually ends up very sloppy when I'm tired or when I'm not putting my 100% into it. I'll have to do a vid on that - I have plenty of footage on the topic! Cheers!

@@HenricusVanDerRyst Today was 4° air and 10° water.... Vids to follow later!

@@HenricusVanDerRyst On a different subject... I am still nursing a Castle Beer hangover from a visit to East London in 2002, thanks to your countrymen👍🍺🇿🇦

@@lorenzozambelli1727 One day.... when I can afford that expense...🤦‍♂️

@DILLIGAF-e4r in italy the camber sails are less expensive than wave sails!

@@lorenzozambelli1727 Yes, Point 7 seem amazing value. I'll tell my wife we're moving to Lake Garda....🇮🇹🤙🇬🇧

@DILLIGAF-e4r best sails for me! I have only point 7! Tra ac2!

@@lorenzozambelli1727 My mate has a range of ACX sails and regularly goes over 30kts.... No cam but SDM. When I wreck my epace and ezzys, I'll probably go Point 7 next👍

@@logicmonkeyuk Cheers... will have a gander

@@pawel7318 Oneil Psycho. I use 1.5mm if air temp >10° and 3mm when below.... Others say they give arm cramp but I use them year round and hardly notice them. In summer, it's mainly to stop blisters if have mega long session (4hrs +)