Improve your gybes, tacks & blasting control through your feet! Vassiliki Vasiliki Windsurf

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As you speed up your controls change... non-planning RIG-STEERING is the most effective way to turn, but on the plane you need to use your feet!
Using the outside and heel of the front foot will bring the board progressively upwind.
Pressing through the toes of the front foot will bear the board downwind.
Standing hard on the back foot will make a quick turn up wind.
This can be used to...
- Prevent a catapult
- Help a quick drive further upwind
- Help push the board through the wind, as in a TACK just before the transition to the new side.
The key is knowing what happens when you take foot pressure to the extreme, then learn to subtle it down and use it at the right time.
A key part of this is sailing upwind. There is no specific angle that is "the closest to the wind we can sail". It varies on a number of factors....
- Sail size V wind strength
- Fin size
- Board size
- Water state
- Personal skill!
The key to doing it well is pitching, or nibbling , your way upwind. From 9:00mins in this video you'll see the full explanation on this... "Good windsurfers do not sail up wind in a straight line!"
How to steer and rig control Video can be found here.... • Rig steering & control...
Follow me @cookiesport on instagram for daily tips and updates.
Filmed in Vassiliki, Greece- join me here for a clinic!
Kit used... a mix of Point-7 sails, mainly the Spy, ACX and F1e.
Boards vary too, starboard tends to be my "go-to" for kit, but also RRD a lot too.
Audio recorded on InstaMic
Filmed on a mix of Insta360 OneR & GoPro Max
Mixture of camera mounts including Fly Mount and Sail Video System
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[@lachywocky]

Damn these are good videos I think you win the windsurfing educational video awards. Gives me greater visuals to picture when I'm out on the water.

[@Cookiesports]

Thank you! I teach in Vassiliki Greece if you’re can ever make it out to join us?

[@lachywocky]

@@Cookiesports One day if they let me out! :-) beautiful spot! Australia has some great too.

[@frankmoonen5390]

Your fast tack is quite impressive

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks

[@Jhoekstra]

Making my windsurf life a lot easier!! Thanks again!

[@Cookiesports]

👍👍👍

[@MWalsh-oo1ge]

Another excellent teaching. ❤ thank you so much 😊

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks 😍

[@petkish]

It is amazing how your cap and glasses keep staying on your head! Thanks for the great videos, giving me, as a beginner, very much info for analysis before I do my next windsurfing, but even more a swimming session...

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed them!

[@someoneinmyhead]

That anticipated back winded drop was a fabulous example.

[@Cookiesports]

👍

[@mogensiversen6734]

Thank you Cookie. No other tutorials comes even close to yours in usability🤙🏻

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks Morgan’s! There’s often extra info and clarification in the description if you find time to read them! Thanks for watching! 👍👍

[@bradmurdaugh5228]

Great video as allways. My windsurfing has progressed a great deal from watching your videos.

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks! Glad I could help! 🤙🤙

[@robmilligan3650]

Another explanation that I think many of us have been waiting for! I think I’ve been too much just front or back foot, rather than more subtlety using toe and heel pressure. That explains the spin outs…Great to see even Cookie ends up in the water occasionally!

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks! Finding the balance is important, but also knowing what to expect as you apply pressure in different places. And yes, that’s a huge reason for spin out… excess back foot pressure!

[@Cookiesports]

👍👍👍👍

[@jamesdougall2886]

Perfect, just what I need atm! Thanks Simon. That Isonic board is a beauty!

[@Cookiesports]

👍👍👍👍

[@someoneinmyhead]

Love you sessions man. You're a good teacher

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks!

[@Rehberaabi]

Thank you, another amazing, to the point shot. This video gives excellent tips to keep in the toolkit to use when things go south on board :)

[@Cookiesports]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@kev-the-windsurfer.]

This is a great topic and explanation!! As I am progressing back into the sport after that 25 year break, your series of videos have been immensely helpful......It doesn't matter that I am already doing this particular thing, but to hear and see an explanation of how it works is great because I can carry on with the confidence I am not practicing bad habits!! I will get to Greece one day when we are allowed to travel.....

[@Cookiesports]

Hope to see you next year! 👍

[@Keedop]

thx

[@Cookiesports]

🤩🤩

[@niwelezlusch9610]

Thank you for all your videos they are soooo good

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks for watching! 🤙🤙

[@philreeves1178]

Thanks for your great video’s, love the way you do that and how you teach

[@Cookiesports]

Thank you! 👍👍👌

[@marcosgallodgp]

Cannon ball!! Loved it

[@Cookiesports]

🤣

[@ilijamedinac3466]

Hi Cookie, great stuff!!!!! Where will be this year coaching? Regards Ilija

[@Cookiesports]

I’m in Vassiliki, Greece. Hope you can make it!

[@joakimyliruusi]

Fantastic stuff again! Great work with all the graphics and so, really appreciate it. Do you know yet where you will be teaching windsurfing next year? Seriously considering on coming to get a week or two of coaching!

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks Joakim! I’ll be in the Cosmos Hotel, Vassiliki, Greece. It’s be great if you can make it out there. All my clinics are small and bespoke to whoever I’m with- doesn’t matter if it’s just you, or your bring a few friends or family- we can do some coaching and help you improve! Hope to see you there! 👍

[@11ingham]

Congrats - been waiting years for a foot steering guide !. To clarify - to turn board downwind push through the toes, do you mean push the nose downwind keeping the board flat or tilting the board on to leeward rail ?

[@Cookiesports]

Push through the leading foot toes to drive the board flat. NOT tilting onto the leeward rail, that can cause the board to trip up.

[@speedquestwindsurfing]

God those tacks are tricky.

[@Cookiesports]

Any bit in particular? I’ll be looking into the in the new series starting, “60seconds skills” Make sure you stay tuned!

[@speedquestwindsurfing]

@@Cookiesports Just those quick little tacks are not easy on the small boards. Fast feet. I would be interested in any trick to get the board moving in Sh!tty wind. I know you have done some stuff on that already but the more the better. Low wind gybes/jibes maybe?

[@matthansen3665]

Can you do a video on how to sail fast in control deeper downwind? Like how to do a speed run or how you would sail a downwind race?

[@Cookiesports]

I’ll add it to the list. Got a new series of “shorts”‘coming out soon! 👍

[@naturepro5643]

Best!!!!Thanksssss!!!!

[@Cookiesports]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@allantassie8145]

Your videos are very good at explaining basic techiques, but what we really need to know is how you keep your hat from blowing away.

[@Cookiesports]

Hahah! A common question it seems! Join me for a clinic in Vass and I’ll show you the tricks!

[@jantheman334]

Hey cookie. Incredible how you speak and explain while surfing, absolute gold. So usefull your advices. Can you tell me how is your height and weight? I am wondering that you are blasting with smaller sails in more or less light wind, i need to have much bigger sails for that. 6.5m2 at 3bft would never work for me with 1.85m and 90kg to get planing. great footage as ever. 5*****🖒

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks for watching! I’m about 180m and 80kg. I’ve done a video on getting going in-lighter winds, it’ll help you be more efficient with the power you have! 👍

[@jantheman334]

Oh then we are nearly close together. That means only technic and experience will help me to progress, i feared it😂 I will look at your previous videos to soak up many of your tips, i already have realized many of them. Thanks for your teaching👏🖒

[@roothik]

Very interesting! That's some important details you rarely hear in other tutorial videos. I really should come to Vassiliki next year! Btw would you recommend buying a used board from a windsurfing station/school? And in that case, can you recommend someone particular in Vassiliki (for shipping within Greece)?

[@Cookiesports]

It’d be great to see you in Bass and join me for some coaching. Buying second hand is a great idea. We sell a lot of our kit this way from my school… however most of us only make sales for collection.

[@hoppertje71]

Great stuff again Cookie 👍Love the "on purpose" fall in the water because sometimes an "incorrect" example tells you more then a 'correct" example. Hope to see you more in the water 😂.

[@Cookiesports]

🤣🤣

[@balazsrepasi8035]

Hey, how do you know where the wind coming from when u go high speed and it feels like the wind coming from the front? Since speed generate wind.

[@Cookiesports]

You’re talking about apparent/induced wind. I’ve done other videos explaining about this. 🤙

[@davemarch1811]

Another great video. I've just bought an ACX 6.5 cookie, are you using SDM or rdm with it?

[@Cookiesports]

Great snail. I love my P7 kit! I use a K100 SDM on the 6.5 👌👌👌

[@slickvisualpoetry]

Thanks for the great video. I'm going to try it out should there ever be wind around here again. Getting more pressure is rather difficult for me. Maybe it's incorrect muscle memory, but I have a really hard time to get the pressure off my back foot. I tried the workaround of pushing through the toes of my back foot. It kind of works, but you have to be gentle to avoid spinout. Have you got any exercises in mind which would help to re-wire that correctly?

[@Cookiesports]

Re-think how we apply pressure then…. On your back foot, to head up wind, apply pressure to your HEELs and pull up with your toes. The aim is to tilt the board to windward. If you ONLY stamp on the back foot as a whole, particularly driving sideways on the fin that’ll cause spin out.

[@slickvisualpoetry]

@@Cookiesports Thanks, I've gone away from heel pressure because pushing through the front foot on my back foot allowed me to keep the board more flat when going up wind. I have a hard time to shift my weight onto my front foot when moving my body back. Probably I still don't have enough weight on the harness.

[@pl3841]

Hi Coockie, I don't understand when, at 3:18, you fall in the water. What's your mistake at that moment ?

[@Cookiesports]

Haha! Kinda accident on purpose… the driving off the back foot pressure STEERs you up wind. If you continue like like you continue to steer… sooner or later you’ll be too close to the wind and fall in backwards! To correct it I should have applied some front foot pressure and gone away from the wind a little… then repeat to pinch upwind! 👍

[@lefterislef5630]

Thanks for this vid Cookie! Sometimes while trying to go upwind (steering in the footstraps and pushing the board quite away from my body through the back leg) spins the board off and feels like I don't have a fin. I've stopped pushing it so hard eventually to avoid that, but is there something going on there I should consider?

[@Cookiesports]

So…. Instead of just PUSHing the back foot/ extending the back leg… think of it as trying to change the trim of the board- you’re aiming to engage the windward rail & lift the leeward side. To do this pull up with your toes on the back foot- in the strap- lift the toes. At the same time as pulling the sail back and SHEETING OUT for a brief moment.

[@lefterislef5630]

@@Cookiesports Perfect thanks!! I will try it next time!! :)

[@DudeWillem]

My faceplanting in the water should be much less by now 😁

[@Cookiesports]

🤣🤣

[@jonmullet5739]

Will moving your harness lines back, enable you to stay powered while going up wind better? I've been wanting to try it, but we have been calm now for a month. I think I have had my lines too far forward, and therefore only able to grab power slightly downwind.

[@Cookiesports]

Yes, 100% get the lines back a bit! Sooooo many people I coach and see windsurf have them too far forward, it’s a commons fault!

[@jonmullet5739]

@@Cookiesports Thanks, I'll have to try it in May, as we are going to ice over soon. I might try an ice set up though...

[@lachywocky]

Would it be fair to say that you should move your harness lines to a point where you have to apply very little front or back hand pressure to be neutral? Or would it be better to have a little bit of pull on your back hand?

[@henq]

Is this recorded about now, beginning of October?

[@Cookiesports]

This was early September I think… balancing editing and uploading around a full-time job! However, these are September/October conditions in Vass too!

[@MX-fo2nu]

Great; at 3 bft ?

[@Cookiesports]

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