How to develop control in the harness!

How to improve and develop control whilst using the harness.
How to really channel the POWER through your body and into the board.
How to stop catapult's and really get upwind efficiently.
All is answered in this video!
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Filmed mainly on a 144lt Starboard GO, and a 5.9m Point-7 SPY
Wind was a changeable bft 0-4 (2-18knots!).
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Filmed in Vassiliki, Greece- join me here for a clinic!
Kit used...
- Sails provided by Point-7; mainly the Spy, ACX and F1e. point-7.com
- Boards are kindly supplied by Starboard. windsurf.star-board.com
- Filmed on a mix of Insta360 Onex2- www.insta360.com/sal/one_x2?i...
- Audio recorded on InstaMic- instamic.io
- Mixture of camera mounts including Fly Mount and Sail Video System
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- Eyewear provided by SunGod www.sungod.co/en-gb/?
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[@juancarlos4006]

Guy you are a master. I can actually check all the mistakes I'm doing when not getting into the plane. Gotta put all of this in practice next time I get in the water, thank you!

[@Cookiesports]

🤩🤩🤩🤣

[@jamesdougall2886]

A great drill for learning to commit to the harness is to sail one-handed in light winds, whilst in the harness. Alternate left or right-hand on its own, staying close to the harness line. Focus fully on using the harness for 70% of your control, with your feet next and finally (one) hand pressure only when absolutely necessary. The spare arm can just dangle by your side. Finally make sure the girls / boys on the beach are watching! :-)

[@Cookiesports]

👍

[@natanabrams622]

This video was key for me. I finally, got the power into the sail using almost exclusively my body weight - using my hands only to position the sail for less or more power as needed. As usual, Cookie's teaching ability is superb. I do, however, find that all of this is much more challenging in choppy water - which is almost always the case where I sail...

[@Cookiesports]

Everything is harder in chop, same principles though! Thanks for the support! 🤩🤩

[@neilashford4179]

thanks for making this so clear

[@Cookiesports]

👍👍👍👍

[@thomasbohn5034]

Great tips. I never even considered using the thumbs👍 I found switching from using a seat harness for years to a waist harness made everything far more fluid and in control. Cheers.

[@Cookiesports]

Waist harness are so much better for 99% of the windsurfing world! thanks for watching!

[@speon]

Same, that thumb flick trick is going to step up my game!

[@tomfrederiksen3257]

Great video again Cookie, solid advice for progressing and intermediate sailors. However I'm sure I saw you having a quick peek to find the rear strap. 😜

[@Cookiesports]

You can usually get away with a cheeky peek, as long as you don’t get caught! (Life lessons as well as windsurfing! 😜)

[@MissileGuidance]

Awesome video dude! 🔥

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks 🤩

[@kristianmartincic3011]

Great tip about getting the harness lines aft for higher speeds, really identified an issue I've had where I take the time to get the harness lines feeling just right in drifting around conditions and then when sped up they seem way too far forward , thought it was just me so cheers!

[@Cookiesports]

Makes a huge difference! 👌👌👌

[@kristianmartincic3011]

@@Cookiesports Rigged my lines a bit aft of where they felt good schlogging, and it was part of a big breakthrough day yesterday where I finally cracked getting in and out of both straps, cheers!

[@richardm9688]

This is just the video for me right now as someone who is slowly getting more confident in the harness. I couldn't help but smile at 12:00 as this has been me, considering myself lucky to hook in and then hanging in hoping not to be thrown forward! The little flick is something for me to remember out on the water. I also am going to try the opposing forces movement with the front hand pushing forward and the back hand pulling. Thank you.

[@Cookiesports]

👍👍👍👍

[@jemand8462]

Finally! My video! This is where everything hopefully starts to get better soon :)

[@Cookiesports]

Get back on your board as soon as you can!👍👍👍

[@horsemadf1]

Thanks! Great content and thanks for always answering my questions.

[@Cookiesports]

You’re welcome! Have you followed the “Walk-Along” series?… the whole this is aimed at answering questions! 👍👍👍

[@horsemadf1]

@@Cookiesports No. I'll suss it out.

[@Cookiesports]

@@horsemadf1 here’s the link to the first… there it explains how to get the rest… Thanks. 👍 The Start of the "Walk-Along's!"...How to keep your hat on! kzbin.info/www/bejne/opamanuIoMt2iZo

[@jonobvious]

Really great video! Good tips and great camera work as well, 10:30 was particularly nice to watch and made me immediately check the wind maps 😅

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks for watching! Time to get back on your board!

[@peter-cal]

awesome video! loved it

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks! 👍

[@gonzaloacampbellg]

Thanks for sharing, your videos are helping me a lot to improve

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks for watching, happy to help!

[@kev-the-windsurfer.]

Great tips as always!! Nice one!!

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks Kev!

[@gianclaudiocitarda2608]

You are number one well done thanks for y lesson bravissimo

[@Cookiesports]

Thank you!

[@markopanger412]

Really great videoo. Even coming back when you're already doing this in practice to review the theory in slow motion once again. In particular the hands work to power and depower the rig. Thanks. Looking forward to the sheet-in with the harness video.

[@Cookiesports]

Coming soon! 👍

[@nikolabobic661]

Thank you!!!

[@Cookiesports]

👍

[@maticcro5992]

Cookie you are the best, hopefully tomorrow there will be some good wind here in Croatia, Viganj, for me to try this thumb technique and to try to hook in/out smoother. Keep it coming 😁

[@Cookiesports]

Fingers crossed for wind for you!👍👍👍

[@jonmullet5739]

Great video. I’m thinking that I may need to upgrade my old seat harness that I got at a garage sale. I have found that, as a tall heavy rider, shorter lines have helped get the sail more upright and back. But this makes it hard to hook in as I need tip toes like another commenter said. I may just try that. Very helpful video.

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks for watching! The majority of windsurfer will be better if in a waist harness… try one out and see how you go!

[@chrisdevine2126]

Cookie, great instructional videos I love the thumb hook-up tips, but, especially than on all your videos you keep repeating the same specific instruction over and over, so that it finally gets through, this is something that most of other videos fail badly on, well done. I was at Vasiliki in early June this year and the winds were horrendous with large waves everyday making progress really difficult, not sure I shall return as I get better conditions at Muddyford in Dorset!

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks- glad you’ve enjoyed them! Shame you missed the good conditions in Vass… we’ve had some epic conditions past few days!

[@lefterislef5630]

thank you as always for a very informative video! This year I am more comfortable on the footstraps (finally!!) and getting hooked in is still a problem of mine as I do the whole motion you indicated. I will try the thumbs trick! Thank you!!!

[@Cookiesports]

A quick flick, whilst heading up-wind! 👍

[@lefterislef5630]

@@Cookiesports I tried it yesterday and realised that my arms are much far apart than yours! I tried having them closer to each other but it felt I had no control at all. Is it a bad habit to have my arms wider than shoulder length?

[@Cookiesports]

@@lefterislef5630 Wide arms are far more physical...need more muscle and power in your arms/body to control and move the rig... narrow arms = less effort..more right movement from less arm movement. Check out the Starboard YT channel... I'm just finishing a video for them that explains this (in my usual Ride-Along Style).

[@lefterislef5630]

@@Cookiesports I will check it out! Thanks again Simon!!

[@scytheinthefog9755]

Thanks Cookie. Great video!! Any tips for not getting accidentally hooked in? Happens to me many times when I try to jybe…

[@Cookiesports]

The sail is too close you you if you’re hooking in mid gybe…. Extend your arms away…. Think sail to the outside- hips to the inside… then there’s miles apart and zero chance of hooking in! Watch a few of my gybing videos for clarification

[@gonzaloacampbellg]

Thanks for sharing your great videos and explanations....I would like to have better English to quickly understand you, but I think I'm giving you more views anytime I watch you again and again.....🤪🤪🤪 Thanks a lot!!!!

[@Cookiesports]

Hahah keep watching! Sorry if I speak too quickly! 😜

[@manup1156]

What you think about the p7 spy sail? A good choice for bump and jump conditions and also foiling? thx, Manuel

[@Cookiesports]

100%! I love it! My quiver is Spy’s 4.2, 5.0, 5.9, the 6.5 ACX for lighter wind free ride. I use the Spy for foiling and everything, super stable and really easy to handle! Get one- you won’t regret!

[@marinocovic9202]

I really like your videos Cookie and you helped me a lot on my journey. But I would like to ask you how do you get so comfortable in footstraps fully powered up? Because today I was on 20 knts of wind being able to get into the straps but i dont feel any safety in them like if a gust hits me my sail might overpower me for a sec and try to catapult me and I'm still gonna be stuck in the footstraps and hurt myself. How do you control it out when you get pulled to the front and you have to bend your front leg to get back? ( because I winsurf in choppy water all the time and once i got pulled over by my sail still stuck in the front strap ). I just feel more control out of the straps but I sometimes leap into the air for a sec and lose all control out of them. Can you give me some tips for practising control in the straps?

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks for watching! Have you tried this video?…. Improve your gybes, tacks & blasting control through your feet! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hafKqHxtfs6Wepo

[@craigleonard9243]

Where did you film this it’s a beautiful place?

[@Cookiesports]

Everything is filmed in Vassiliki, Greece! 👍👍👍

[@dimitriskakalis4703]

What do you mean the sail must go in,back and down to power up... Can you please explain...? Thank you very much for your help....

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks! The rig comes -IN (sheet-in) - BACK (towards the back of the board) - DOWN (pulling down off the boom) Look through the channel… there’s a number of videos where I talk about these movements

[@dimitriskakalis4703]

Thank you for the helping....🤙

[@CharlieCushing]

Question: When unhooking, I often find that I'm standing on my toes and trying to raise my pelvis as high as I can, and I ALWAYS have to use my thumb to flick the line away. I'm pretty sure my boom height is just fine - It's always about armpit-height before I mount it to the board and get that extra inch or two. My lines are 34-35" (I'm 5'-10", so I'm fairly certain that they're a bit on the long side). I'm always very comfortable with my boom height, powered up or not. But, powered up or not, it doesn't seem to matter...I always have to depower, stand upright, and struggle to release. It's probably the most common reason I get wet these days. Any thoughts? Thanks as always

[@Cookiesports]

Are you wearing a seat harness? Also… when the sail comes back and out (as you power up) the boom will be a bit lower and easier to unhook… just means you need to pre-plan a few moments ahead before you’re vertical again and can’t unhook! Thanks for watching!

[@chrisdevine2126]

@@Cookiesports I had the same problem until I started hooking up and unhooking with the sail under power and the boom pulled back to me, which made it so much easier.

[@rasmusboegehave4945]

I really enjoy your videos Cookie! Quick question from an intermediate surfer here.. You are running a 5.9 square meter sail in an avg. wind speed of 13 knots (a guess based on your wind description). How on earth can u get the board planing? I'm 82kg and in around 12 knots my online windsurf calculator tells me to use at least an 8.5 sail. Keep up the good work!

[@Cookiesports]

Come and join me here and we’ll look into it! Trouble is the calculators I’ve seen don’t really work… for example yesterday afternoon there were people of similar builds on sails ranging from 4.5-6.5!

[@rasmusboegehave4945]

​@@Cookiesports Maybe you could do a video regarding this issue? wind, board size vs kg, what sail in which condition etc. Many newcomers would love this content especially when the online calculators don't work. As a 82kg standing on a 117L Isocnic Slalom boards - which sail size would you recommend for 12-13 knots?

[@Cookiesports]

@@rasmusboegehave4945 I'll have a thing about. First advice- newcomers shouldn't be using Slalom boards like Isonics... it's like trying to drive an F1 car! Get a classic freeride board and you'll be much better off... something like a Carve or a Go will be much better suited.

[@TopMaphis]

Exactly what I was wondering myself. With all due respect to Cookie, from 10:13 - that is not a 12 knot gust. :) You can see the small ripples on the sea surface and small white waves (see surface difference between 11:30 and 11:33 - the latter one is the ~10-12ish knots.) He's right about the board tho. A 141 litre GO, designed for stability and early planing will be much quicker in marginal. Add to this the highly experienced sailor and the latest technology rigg he is using - all this helps him to harvest even the smallest gusts. What sail are you using and what fin? Also plays crutial part in the acceleration...

[@rasmusboegehave4945]

@@TopMaphis I'm using a 42cm carbon fin on a 127L Isonic Slam board from 2012. Sail wise I'm primarily using: Duetone 7.8 E_Pace 2021 no cam, Duetone 6.6 E_pace 2020 no cam, Serverne 5.7 blade, and severne 5.2 (done remember the model on the last one). Any tips on how to enhance my windsurf experience? It has been really difficult to learn how to ride properly in the harness and straps on a slalom board. In enough wind I even prefer water starting in both straps to avoid the problems finding the backstrap in planning :)

[@KarlOlofsson]

Really struggling with the in-back-down part atm. I've tried to start walking back and out on the board from standing at the mast, but I always seem to either turn with the sail or push the board down to turn as if doing a jibe. Can't seem to hit the right balance.

[@Cookiesports]

You’ve hit the two extremes there… just need to soften up and find the happy middle ground! 🤩

[@KarlOlofsson]

@@Cookiesports Could you make some kind of common mistakes series so that it's easier to see things like that demonstrated?

[@Cookiesports]

@@KarlOlofsson something like these?… kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWTdZHmOg7ake6c kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpCrc5ijeM2si6c

[@Str8representing]

how can you SEE gusts?

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks for watching! I’ve just started a new series through my Pateron account… “The Walk-Along” series… follow me there and I’ll answer your question! 👍👍👍 Link is in the comments!

[@paulholliday]

Which harness lines are those?

[@Cookiesports]

Point-7 QR lines! 👌👌👌

[@mmur9233]

Where is this?

[@Cookiesports]

Most of this channel is filmed in Vassiliki, Greece. 👌👌👌