Kite Foil Jibes (Gybes) & hydrofoil turning principles, PART 1

This tutorial explains jibes in detail. It covers heelside to toeside jibes, as well as toeside to heelside jibes. The tutorial explains kite control, and hydrofoil control, and explains the mistakes you may be making.
The next step is to learn taxi footswaps, then foil footswaps, after that you can look at more advanced jibes covered in Jibes Part 2.

[@michaelmirfield437]

Excellent tutorials, so well explained, thank you!

[@chandra5103]

the best tutorials ever! seriously!!!! thank you!

[@kitesurfcollege]

Cheers Chandra

[@drbfitk366]

Great video & instruction you guys! Emphasizing the practical points you need to utilize in varying wind conditions. Breaking it down into different components, kite control, body movements. & wind direction really helps in execution of the technique! 👏

[@kitesurfcollege]

Thanks very much, I hope the video is helpful.

[@julianamcassol]

exceptionally simple and good video !1 the control bar on the screen is awesome! thanks

[@kitesurfcollege]

Thankyou

[@krzysztofbaran2985]

The best foiling tutorial!!

[@cefirmeza]

Nice work. Your tutorials are the easiest to follow. Keep up

[@kitesurfcollege]

Thanks, will do!

[@EcommerceMindset]

Incredible tutorials on this channel. Amazing job guys!

[@kitesurfcollege]

Thanks so much

[@openari]

Excellent video. Thank you very much.

[@kitesurfcollege]

Glad you liked it

[@alexleung4115]

Finally, hydro foil tutorials, thank you for the hard eork

[@kitesurfcollege]

You're welcome. I'm currently working on about 25 kite foil and wing foil tutorials. So lots more on the way.

[@alexleung4115]

@@kitesurfcollege really looking forward to the back roll tack video, stuck on it for a while and there’s no other good tutorials out there

[@Berge1616]

@@kitesurfcollegeThank you sooo much!

[@vboceanvibes2798]

You can downloop the kite to complete the jibe in lightwind. Then you don't have to pay so much attention to the kite because it will maintain power through the loop and the transition.

[@terryscott888]

superbe vidéo! thanks a lot

[@toastskate]

Riding goofy and regular I see. That's talent.

[@dmullane5566]

still the best tutorials, well done, keep it up.

[@michaelzbytovsky2717]

Great video. Mahalo nui loa.

[@giraopedro624]

Awesome info! Well done! Can I ask what location is this? Thanks!

[@AP-fl1ln]

Thank you very much

[@GaetanoCrisci]

Top! thank you Alex

[@kitesurfcollege]

Cheers Gaetano

[@kitesurfcollege]

I have a whole series of kite foil and wing foil videos on the way. Should have another one ready by the weekend. How's your foiling going?

[@GaetanoCrisci]

@@kitesurfcollege Great ! I will start near the half of June! too cold for the moment... thank you for your interest!

[@ryanmitchell2160]

Thank you for another great video. What size Duotone Pace board is that and what are the details for the foil wing you are using?

[@kitesurfcollege]

Thanks Ryan. In most shots I'm using the smallest pace board, 3 foot 11, and the hydrofoil front wing is 950cm2.

[@becienzo86]

The real question is: where are you able to kite always alone with this nice steady wind and flat water?? I envy you so much

[@kitesurfcollege]

It's not easy. Have to drive about 5 hours to get away from civilization, and start recording early before everyone arrives. Whenever there's a camera on the beach people seem to start doing their tricks in front of it.

[@becienzo86]

@@kitesurfcollege Thanks for your effort then, you make by far the best tutorial videos around

[@duendehugo]

MUITO BOM

[@zenflare]

Down loop the kite in light wind, and your jibe will be much better.

[@smotruns]

Nice job

[@charlesmesnier3568]

Rebel is a good kite to learning foil ?

[@kitesurfcollege]

The new rebels are so versatile you can foil with them easily even though they are designed for other purposes. Rebels actually make things like tacks, footswaps and 360s easier as they fly closer to the edge of the window. For a novice however a kite like an evo, mono, or juice will be a gentler and easier to handle while foiling.

[@chrishofer6259]

Hi alex, thanks for your great videos! I have mastered the gybe but o have a problem coming out of the turn. My foil speeds up so much and i struggle to control of my speed . Its if i become a slingshot out of the turn . The only way i am able to reduce speed is to bring board down onto surface and create drag. Any tips will be highly appreciated!

[@dansantospirito5310]

If you are down looping for your gybe, make sure it's a really tight loop. Also, go farther down wind on the turn, thus will slacken the lines a bit and so there will be less pull.

[@davidbruton2435]

Great Video. I just started trying gybes yesterday and I'm anxious to apply these tips in my next session. There's one thing I'm a little dubious about. In your explanations of 'Yaw' and 'Banking', to me it looks like you are mostly using the pitch and roll of the foil in both cases -- less in 'Yaw' and more in 'Banking'. I'm skeptical that the yawing force (what the rudder of an airplane does) has a significant effect when foiling. From my experience, trying to steer the foil as if it were a twintips (using what would be called yaw on an airplane) is kind of pointless. To me it looks like in your section on 'Yaw', the rider changes the direction of the nose of the board by adjusting the roll of the foil and compensating for changes in pitch.

[@kitesurfcollege]

Hi David. Banking or rolling will get you around a jibe. An understanding of yaw however will help now and is absolutely essential a few steps down the line. That's why I've detailed it. Yaw moves the foil quickly, without moving your body much. That's critical to understand and apply. Yaw is often essential for getting the board into the correct position. For example at 9:36 where the foiler is falling off the side of the board, a little yaw would bring the foil back underneath them. That fall was caused by too much lean, or equally, it was caused by too little yaw. Yaw can even move the hydrofoil so much you can switch between toeside and heelside edge. As you can see at 10:23 yaw is sending the mast/hydrofoil upwind and downwind enough that I'm switching between heelside lean to toeside lean rapidly. The foil is changing course a lot, while my body keeps more or less the same course. Yaw is creating a change of bank/roll in that instance - no leaning was applied to the board. Being able to do this is fundamental to later tricks. For example, you initiate a heelside to toeside tack by banking over your heels to get a tighter turn, but you finish that tack by yawing, to move the board into toeside stance.

[@trixrt8601]

why not downloop?

[@kitesurfcollege]

Hi Trix. That's covered later, in jibes part II, as it's safer to learn to jibe first (without loops), and then add downloops later when you have more experience.

[@adamkoch2730]

I love you. Except..... “if you cant explain it simply then you don’t understand it” ~ Albert Einstein