How to carve gybe, starting with non-planing moves. Windsurf Ride-Along sessions with Cookie

Another in the series with Cookie, this time focusing on the carve gybe. Starting with some non-planing skills- particular focus is moving from the entry into the midpoint - foot change, rig flip, into the exit. Multicamera and on-board microphones to ride along gives all the angles clarity to ensure you understand exactly what you need to do to complete successfully.
This video links with a few others on Gybes to progress and develop though the skills.
Here’s a link to the playlist!
• Progress though your G...

[@athertones1775]

'Cookies five H technique', not heard that before. Very easy sequence to remember, even on the water. Like it, nice and concise.

[@Cookiesports]

The H's! Makes everything simple! 👍👍👍👍

[@everythingandanything4102]

I have learned so much, i completed three gybes in a run without error. i cant wait to get back out on the water.

[@Cookiesports]

🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@didierlasne4994]

bravo , très pédagogique et ludique , très très bien filmé et expliqué , thanks a lot

[@Cookiesports]

Merci! 👍

[@ΒαγγέληςΚολτσίδας-π8ε]

Great video! So helpflul your different camera angles.

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks! Glad they’re helping! 🤙🤙

[@slickvisualpoetry]

Your social media strategy is really doing its trick on me. I am already convincing my wife to spend a week in Keros after COVID is in the history books. But man, those tents are pricey!

[@Cookiesports]

🤣 glad you’re enjoying the videos! There are other options around to stay at, drop me a message if you need advice!

[@slickvisualpoetry]

@@Cookiesports I might actually do that. Thanks for offering.

[@alasdair1571]

I've watched quite a few videos on the carve gybe but most often the instructor/pro does not understand the 'teacher' requirement. These do. They explain the 'why' and it all makes sense. After watching the first video on the entry I now accelerate through the gybe properly and now have the speed to keep planing through the rig flip. It was just the simple reasoning for putting the mast on the outside of the turn that was that extra I needed. I was doing it last time out with a 9.2m slalom sail and the speed and stability I had on the run downwind was secure. Thanks Cookie!

[@Cookiesports]

Hi Alasdair! Thanks for the comment, great to hear the video was helpful! I’m going to keep making videos every few days so stay tuned- and let me know if there’s anything you’d like me to chat through!

[@rctrix9063]

In light conditions or between gusts this technique will cause you to get stuck, wobbling around like a buoy. I think a rapid bog jibe is better method, especially in surf. Both feet back, jam the tail and step forward while letting go the rig. Less time in the vulnerable position. Great vlogs Cookie 👍

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks for watching! 👍👍👍 The aim of this technique is the learn the core foundation skills needed to the mater the planing gybes. You do this on slightly larger boards than normal, and in non-planing conditions. You can then use the exact same movements and skills if (when!) you drop off the plane/loose speed through a planning gybe. If your aim was do to a super quick turn- like setting up for a wave as you suggest, then a slam or flare gybe would be a good option. 👍

[@Thomas-pb4kn]

Some of the best tutorials, compliments! (And i have watched them all on youtube) great with the diverse camerangles and the explanations while demonstrating.

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks Thomas, really appreciate your comment. Stay tuned to the series, aiming for a new one every few days- tacking next, then a further look into the rig flip for gybes!

[@User7h7]

Thanks so much Cookie. I’ll be practising that today. Love the footwork, the instant replays, the different camera angles. Greetings from New Zealand.

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks for watching, hope not helps! Many more videos in similar style on the channel!

[@claytonhenderson366]

well worth watching , one of the better videos around

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks Clayton! This is one of many videos like this in the series, hope you’ve managed to checkout some more! 👍👍👍

[@seangilman7883]

Great Video. The drone footage was very effective too. I realized that I need to go much further into the turn before flipping the rig. Thank you.

[@Cookiesports]

Happy to help!

[@paolodea77]

impeccabile, ogni perplessità svanisce! TOP! ...thanks

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks very much! Subscribe and stay tuned for more videos every few days!

[@BuderChristian]

Thanks for this great tuto

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks!

[@jamesdougall2886]

Really, really good. Clear, complete and comprehensive. Thanks Simon, your videos have helped me enormously on my windsurf holiday this week. 🙏🤙

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks James! Really glad I'm helping so many people! Hope you've been somewhere nice with some good wind!? And thanks for sharing the vides around your windsurfing friends!

[@jamesdougall2886]

@@Cookiesports am in Ialyssos Rhodes at the Pro Center...Nice 10-14 knots most days 🤙🤙

[@Cookiesports]

@@jamesdougall2886 Sound great!

[@conallcorrigan465]

Very helpful videos. Love to see lesson on water starts, particularly rig recovery following wipe out, which I find the most exhausting part.

[@Cookiesports]

Thank you Conall! Try this video for waterstarts. I think it’s pretty clear video and I’ve kept away from a voice over just to let the actions show what I’m doing. Hope it helps! kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpiloH9_iKihqc0

[@aeroegnr]

I really like your method of showing underpowered at first and holding at key points. I'm going to need to practice this a bit to smooth out my gybes.

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks! This video is one of a few on gybing and how to progress the skill! Hope you’ve managed to check a few of them out! 👍👍👍👍

[@rcggijzen]

Another excellent tutorial! Motivates me to practice the basics again on a light-wind day. When powered up I struggle to keep pressure on the middle part of the rail while carving, without being hauled out the front door. Somehow I always end up on my back foot resisting the pull of the sail, killing the speed. I know I'm supposed to oversheet on entry to kill the power but at some point I have to start opening it up again and then still get pulled over the front unless I'm leaning back. Sometimes it all magically works and I plane out, but I can't tell exactly what I did differently. Guess I need to come to Keros some day :)

[@Cookiesports]

Hi Ron, Thanks for the comment! I wouldn't worry about overshooting to de-power the sail- I hear it a lot around beaches. It does work, however very hard to do- and like you said, at some point you have to open the rig out again to get through the mid-point to the exit and rig flip. Run through the H's, this will help you bear away and speed up with control. Take your time to do them and you'll find your self at speed downwind- opening up the arc of the carve and naturally de-powering the sail as you board speed and got closer to the wind speed (so less apparent wind int he sail). Keep an eye out for where I'll be S21, wherever I'm based it'll be windy and me and my team will be running regular clinics! Thanks again for watching!

[@marcosgallodgp]

Thanks for the tips! rig flip would be great since I'm failing on that quite a lot.

[@Cookiesports]

Hi Marcos, glad you like it. Just finishing up a tacking short film then I’ll get onto some rig flip tips. Watch out for the “disco gybe”, it’ll change your life!

[@marcosgallodgp]

Sounds good!

[@windsurfingatmeerwijck]

To see the footwork from this Angle, it's much more easy to understand.

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks- hope it helps! I've got many much more recent ones with better cameras on board now too! Check out the rest of the channel!

[@cozer78]

Cookie is the best, thx bro 🤙🏻

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks. 🤩🤩

[@albertogonzalez4117]

First of all, thank you very much for your videos and your time. I have been watching windsurfing videos for a long time and your tutorials are the best, thanks to your explanations and cameras, so congratulations for your effort. I have a problem with the non planning gybe. I can't hold the sail when the board starts to move away from the wind and the wind is coming from behind even though I put my back hand back on the boom with a wide grip. If the wind is very light or the sail is very small, I can do it. But with more wind or a bigger sail I can't resist the force of the wind and I have to drop the sail. I hope you can tell me where my mistake is. Thanks in advance

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks for watching! Get low and get further back on the board! You’ll be able to hold the power then! 👍

[@carsonhoury5519]

Hey Cookie, really love the videos. I watch them obsessively! 😀 Im a self taught windsurfer comfortable planing and in the straps but only yesterday went out in sub-planing conditions and attempted and completed my first ever gybe. Very chuffed! What I'm wondering is: is there a way to do a non planing gybe in planing conditions? So how can I come off the plane and attempt a gybe without being so overpowered once I am heading straight downwind that I either pick up too much speed or just get the sail pulled out of my hands? Can I sheet out somehow at that point? If there is a technique is there any chance of a video on it? Many thanks!

[@Cookiesports]

Great work! Non-planing gybes in planing conditions are tough, things to help it…. -step back further -sink lower -back hand wider

[@carsonhoury5519]

@@Cookiesports Thanks for the tips! So there's no way to de-power the sail during the turn... Do you think it'd help with not picking up too much speed to make the turn tighter and therefore over more quickly? Or should I just stop being a baby and just power through it?😀

[@Cookiesports]

@@carsonhoury5519 Just get on and hold it! Follow those three tips and you’ll be fine!👍

[@stuartbaker8827]

Love the videos Cookie. I’m a learner just getting to grips with tacks and gybes. I tend to get stuck running downwind when gybing and find it awkward getting the board to get round the other way, the same on the tack, I can point upwind, but struggle to get it to point round to the other direction. Any tips to get the board round the apex of the turn?

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks for the comment Stuart. Firstly on the tack...as a beginner starts to become an intermediate pressure driving through your back foot becomes more and more important. Pushing the board under the sail as you drive the board into the wind, at the same time as pulling the sail out, around, and then back over the board will pull the nose through the wind. Once you have done that you have the space available on the new side to step into (providing you have done what is shown in the other videos about using your front hand to create that space!). The gybe is about the route the mast takes....to begin with it goes hard towards the wind, then forwards.That first action will put the mast towards the outside of the town as you bear away. Continue leaning the mast towards the outside - as if you are trying to put it into the water on the outside of the turn. Continuing to do this (and counterbalancing with your body at the same time) will turn you through the run and onto your new reach.

[@Cookiesports]

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[@stuartbaker8827]

Thanks Cookie

[@windsurf888]

Once more, really useful. I would like to see how to jump pointing the nose in the air while hanging underneath the kit.

[@Cookiesports]

Great suggestion!

[@i_seoul_u4034]

Never thought of practicing gybe like this as my front feet in. thanks for the video. quick questions 1. In running position, stand against the wind direction, I am about lose balance because of the wind hitting the sail hardest in that direction. any tips to pass through that step faster? 2. I wanna know your better planning up-wind skills in the next video :)

[@Cookiesports]

Hi Joseph, Really avoid getting stuck on a run, it's not the nicest place to be sailing. To pass through it continue to move the mast toward the outside of the turn- it's probably already forward but really exaggerate the movement to the outside (with really wide hands). The further the mast goes over the more the board will continue to turn through and onto the new reach. I'll drop some links to other useful videos that will show this. kzbin.info/door/dyaiQll4OeQNQKyErJviigplaylists?view_as=subscriber

[@Cookiesports]

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[@kingjame2]

Great video. 2 Qs, 1. where in the world are you as it looks great in all your videos and 2. how heavy are you (trying to gauge comparable board size)?

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks James! All this channel (so far) is filmed on the Greek island of Limnos. I'm around 80kg on a good day!

[@kingjame2]

Thanks, I'm about the same, gyros seem to influence alot when in that part of the world. Your control of balance and foot placement is superb. I've been unlucky with wind the last few years and struggling to find somewhere which supports planning and flattish water reliably.@@Cookiesports

[@Cookiesports]

@@kingjame2 keep an eye on this channel through the winter- won't be many videos as I'll be in the snow but I'll release one when I've confirmed where I'll be for next summer doing clinics- be assured it'll be somewhere windy, flat ish, and with good kit to rent!

[@kingjame2]

@@Cookiesports You are living the dream. I'll be paying attention. Hope the ski season happens. Same interests, never bumped into each other during the Neilson days.

[@joakimyliruusi]

And now I see!!! I've wondered about stepping into the front strap at non planing speeds, the strap is so far on the rail that it will tilt the board windward. But when you film your feet when stepping into the front strap you clearly move the back foot over to the opposite side. Widening the stance and balancing out the board. I've tried to keep my feet so much on the centerline, ending up in just tilting the board at slow speeds if I move my front foot close to the strap. Am I right about this?

[@Cookiesports]

Hi Joakim, Good spot, exactly right... if you're stepping back into the strap (which is great practice) then stepping across at the same time is essential!

[@adamb.8854]

Hi, when you sheet in for the jibe for longer, the turn will be shorter and faster, and when you open the sail earlier it will be slowlier and have a long radius right? In big wind longer radius jibes are easier to make i mean more efortless? Thx Adam

[@Cookiesports]

Generally I ask students to open up the gybe arc and go bigger- easier to keep the board flat and fast. Cranking on the sail and carving harder means everything happens quickly and you need lightning reactions to deal with it! Big arc, high board speed, slow movements!

[@russellscott1151]

I’ve seen on the carve gybe that they lay the sail almost flat to the inside of the turn before flipping and exit. Is this a different type of carve gybe?

[@Cookiesports]

Yes, different type of gybe that is infinitely harder to do! Get this “normal” style of gybe going well first before you start to try the “lay down” or “salmon” style of gybe. Thanks for joining me here. I do a lot of personal coaching a feedback through my Patreon pages, ask some questions/send me videos and I fully explain. Check it out!

[@chrisdevine2126]

Just not clear enough

[@Cookiesports]

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