Using your windsurf harness- the full introductory full guide! Filmed in Vassiliki, Greece

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Filmed on a 133lt Starboard Carve, and a 5.9m Point-7 SPY.
Wind was but 2-3.
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[@juliang5519]

Helpful guide. Thanks for making this

[@Cookiesports]

🤩🤩🤩

[@roothik]

How come these comments are from 3 weeks ago?

[@poe12]

​@@roothik video re uploaded maybe

[@jackhedley232]

Brilliant video well explained - thank you

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks!

[@draacking]

Very nice video Cookie! Started learning windsurfing and your Video are very helpful. Very nice filming and editing. Props to you mate. Keep them coming!

[@Cookiesports]

Thank you…more coming every week!

[@garymccoy9572]

Hey Cookie great series of videos! I didn't catch the make of your 32" quick release harness lines if you can share that? Thanks Gary

[@Cookiesports]

@@garymccoy9572it’s always Point-7 👍👍👍 point-7.com/quick-release-harness-lines/?v=f214a7d42e0d

[@maartenmartens6822]

if you think you know it all.. you learn always new stuf 😎 thx Cookie as always great content!

[@Cookiesports]

Glad it was helpful! There is a new video coming out soon that will take this introductory guide to the next step, more power, and more speed using the harness

[@FlavioVinteeum]

Just what I needed, thanks - II🙏

[@Cookiesports]

Glad you enjoyed! If you like this the follow-up to this you’ll like even more, it takes these basic skills and cranks them up a notch. Higher wind, more speed, more power and control!

[@hanslaught2351]

Nice video -- I "know" almost all of it just through trial-and-error by now, but, as always, one or two new things come up! The tip about putting your back thumb on the rear harness line to more easily unhook is one I might have to try. Sometimes, hooking in and unhooking is not easy, especially when I set my boom chin height or higher. The thumb on the harness line trick could be really helpful for some of those fall-in-backwards incidents when the sail comes on top of you and you are underwater...will have to see. Being able to move the harness lines is so nice. I only figured out that you can keep them very loose and they stay put when they need to just recently.

[@Cookiesports]

Glad you found it helpful! 👍👍

[@riccardogranito410]

Just what I needed, thanks💪🏽

[@Cookiesports]

Glad to hear it helped you! I have a follow-up coming to this video soon, more power, more speed, more control in higher winds!

[@anthonyperkins8304]

Excellent video, thanks Cookie! Always more to learn!

[@Cookiesports]

Thank you! I have a follow-up to this video coming up soon explaining the next level of harness control

[@joegar72]

Very helpful! Can't wait to try some of these tips out.

[@Cookiesports]

Good luck! Hope it all progresses well!

[@christiank2202]

Thank you

[@Cookiesports]

👍👍

[@MissileGuidance]

Cool! 🔥

[@Cookiesports]

🤩

[@juancarlos4006]

Very useful as always Cookie, thanks!! Starting to learn harness, these vids are gold.

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks! Another harness video coming soon… takes this up a notch!

[@gonzaloacampbellg]

awesome explanations as always, thanks for sharing😀😃😄

[@Cookiesports]

Thanks! I have a follow-up to this video coming out soon, it will take this harness control to the next level, more power, more speed!

[@deanzynda7338]

You mentioned adjustable, quick-release lines Where can I find lines that are both? Thanks, so much for all your guidance!

[@Cookiesports]

This is the place to get them…. point-7.com/quick-release-harness-lines/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwhb60BhClARIsABGGtw-BMiVp_o3p6NOKw_gAOXggpk0rWXbwCkMSY5ZC_AIaCX-Fw0eliusaAipzEALw_wcB&v=79cba1185463

[@oo_render]

Great vid as always. I’m just getting back into windsurfing after an almost 20 year break and your guides help me a lot. I will go right ahead and loosen my harness lines, I agitate found it impossible to adjust them while riding. In the beginning when you say your height: 5 foot 8 would be 173cm, not 180. I guess the 180 cm are correct for you, given that you say your weight in kg and not the made up fairy tale units ;)

[@Cookiesports]

I just checked, today I weigh 79 kg and measure in at 175 cm! Hope that, and the video, are helpful to you! I have a follow-up to this video taking the harness skills up a notch coming out soon!

[@windsurfingatmeerwijck]

Great Sound now I better hear you voice.. Thank you so much for this One it helps a lot.

[@Cookiesports]

Great to hear it! I have a follow-up to this video coming out very soon

[@horsemadf1]

I haven't sailed for a while. Off injured as usual..but I think when I'm really overpowered I use my front hand really close to the mast and push against the boom to avoid the sail from taking over?? smashing back into me? It's been a while since I've done it but that's what I remember. I know that's in 'extreme" conditions but that seems to be the opposite of what you're saying?

[@Cookiesports]

Definitely sounds like the opposite of what I’m saying! Putting your front hand close to the mast is a good way of losing power, but then if you push that hand it will power you back up again! Your two moves described here sound like they are cancelling of each other out!!

[@lefterislef5630]

I keep in mind things you've said about the harness lines in previous videos of yours as well. So very helpful as always! One thing I'm having trouble with is my harness keeps sliding up and turns into a bra! It must mean I sit a lot on the harness lines instead of pulling, right?

[@Cookiesports]

Exactly right! If the harness is riding up, then you are not pulling perpendicular to the boom, but instead sitting down. I have a follow-up to this video coming soon that might be helpful to

[@lefterislef5630]

@@Cookiesports Can't wait!! :D

[@ChrisDoughty-u1f]

Great vid! Sometimes I struggle with the position of the harness lines…it feels like the board wants to turn into the wind. Would moving the lines forward or backward help with this? Cheers

[@Cookiesports]

Likely not either…. It could more likely be about foot pressure- you’re accidentally steering with your back foot. 🦶

[@khadanse-DJ-KHA]

thanks for your great video ! 32 inches is the total harness loop lenght, or one side?

[@Cookiesports]

The harness lines are measured from doom to boom, so the full length of the loop

[@horsemadf1]

I'll have to make note of what I do next time it happens.

[@Cookiesports]

New harness video coming very soon that'll take this even further!

[@meh0354l]

nice smal tings to implement in my sailing. Do you have anything on how to close the sail properly when i want to go realy fast? when is it fully closed? paralell? and when the wind goes down in the middel of a run on strong wind. how to get back up without steering to much upwind

[@Cookiesports]

Start upwind… get stable, then bear away!

[@johnferreira5752]

Thanks again Cookie, Unfortunately i was not able to keep a straight face when you said a centimeter can make all the difference in the world

[@Cookiesports]

🤣🤣🤣

[@nikumandimsum4714]

I have been badly injued three times while windsurfing --always while trying a harness. Even with a long line I get stuck. This last time I landed on top of my sail with me ankle between mast and board. The other times the wind gusted and ripped my shoulders, one surgery each shoulder :( I'm afraid I'll never be able to improve beyond my current, fairly intermediate point. Even though I'm brave enough to try and try again, I'm getting to be an old lady and just sick of the injuries! Is there like a super-fail-safe-harness you can recommend, maybe something that releases when there is a gust? However, I do feel like if I were in the conditions you are sailing in this video I would be fine. What was the wind speed? And I thought the purpose of using a centerboard was to sail upwind. So how are you sailing upwind wothout one? I find that without it I'm pushed downwind. Maybe its because I'm on a lake usually? I will watch more of your videos. Thank you!

[@justelis5179]

So in 9.0 sail i need about 9 hands?

[@Cookiesports]

It only works as a very rough guide between around 4.5 to 6.5 sales. However, the summary is always it is a very rough guide!… i’m still with the general thought that most people have their harness lines too far forward. Today I was on a 6 m sale, I had my harness lines 7.5 hands back from the mast!