Slalom Boards Set up - Jordy Vonk

[@DrGiourkas]

Its such a delight to listen Jordy speak with such passion!He speaks about the gear setup and his face lights up!

[@marinatinshred]

Invaluable coaching from Jordy. What a nice dude. Gotta get those reps in and tweak to perfection. My OCD is on fire.

[@iotarask77]

Bottom line there’s no shortcut to becoming a faster Windsurfer, just to put the hours in and practice. Great Jordy is so honest about this

[@alfordmick]

Great content, a real pleasure to listen and learn from both of you, big thanks to Jordy for sharing 🤙🏻🤙🏻

[@MarkenIngrid]

Great to listen to how, where, what to do what happens when you change this. Excellent video!

[@danielklein1928]

Great tutorial and interview. Thanks!

[@SuperMoskis]

First of all excellent video!! For me as amateur is such good insights! Thanks Ben, Jordy and camera men/women

[@Mr4xl]

Jordy is great. . . . A source of relevant information and well presented

[@mjoosterhuis]

This is Excellent! Thanks guys, looking forward to part two❤

[@stephenrobinson6946]

I always maintained that Fransisco Goya was the nicest person in windsurfing, well Jordy Vonk might well give Francisco a run for his money. What a top bloke he is, great interview

[@robertocoslovich3143]

Thanks a lot for this super interesting video. Ben I could listen to you and Jordy talking about windsurfing for hours. The OfO of the board also plays a big role in choosing the fin

[@timcairns7672]

Replaying this again to understand why the riders nearly always choose the 71 & 85 board selection and not some other combo.

[@draftrep]

Great interview and content Ben, and thank you for Jordi for taking time to go through all the details, pure delight

[@davidvincent7443]

Ben, this vid is just amazing. Thanks to Jordy for all these tricks. I will for sure take notes after my next session. You Guys talked about windsurfing without talking about brands, that is amazing, thanks again. Can't wait to see part 2.

[@elmanuel472]

Favourite episode so far! Thanks for the insights

[@gavtheoldskater]

fascinating, looking forward to part 2 and the sails.

[@simongodfrey3765]

Great interview and really interesting - one board, one fin!?! I suppose in terms of leverage and width it makes sense, but I've been used to thinking one board and a quiver of fins! Jordi is so great, such a nice guy. Thanks Ben!

[@anthonystanden5073]

Really interesting information, Ben. great video. Thanks to Jordy great insight into how he thinks

[@juanmacarreno2120]

Fantástico ben!!!

[@jeroenhessel7535]

What a great interview, great to listen to Jordy and he also explains it super clearly and passionately. Love to see more of this kind of how to gides from the pros

[@jeroen-surf]

Great info, learned new things from this video! And what a super nice guy Jordy is ❤

[@RobGoris123]

This is fantastic in-depth content, well done Ben and Jordy

[@alainalain7102]

Great video, a lot of information packed in there, very usefull for me, intermediate level.👍

[@FrancoisTCS]

Very nice explanation from both of you, good questions from Ben and honest and detailed answer from Jordy. We can see you are used to make clinics. Pity you don’t come to my home spot. 😢

[@mikepringuer2099]

Great interview. Kudos to Jordy.

[@frankstrobel4350]

very informative....Jordy did a good job of explaining

[@TopMaphis]

Asking the right questions Ben! Thanks for that, good info. Looking forward to the sails part as well

[@gilliebilly]

really interesting video

[@ianmacnz]

Great chat Jordy! 🤙

[@windsurfingatmeerwijck]

Thanks for the info Jordy..

[@robmilligan3650]

Another great interview - many thanks Ben!

[@schobihh2703]

the right trim is so important, what Jordy says is so true, unfortunately. It just makes the sport so complicated. I know that many people struggle with that

[@KristofJarder]

Great interviews with lots of information, thank you guys!!!

[@timcairns7672]

Solid Gold Beta!

[@lurch1e]

Jordy Vonk, what a top man.

[@AllanCrossNWF]

Awesome content.. Top Job all round!

[@michelletran7852]

Super cool interview.

[@olih.]

Great video. Thanks for sharing

[@francoisf195]

Very interesting gear talk! Thanks!

[@davidfermandez9269]

Awesome!!!

[@Melkie]

Great video guys, super informative and inspiring. Thanks Ben & Jordy!!

[@johnd1981]

Amazing video. Thank you

[@thebearmz]

Very interesting! Thank you both!

[@KristofJarder]

Ben, please some ideas how to avoid catapults while going into the back footstraps on slalomboards!! Thank you @**

[@benjamineikelenboom5332]

thanks for all the interesting chats and they are very helpfull. i started sailing again with my 24 year old setup and now i findout i can F%$#@ up with really everything setting up my gear downhaul, outhaul, boom height, and sailtrack position its realy insane its going to be a serious learning curve again afther 15 to 20 years of serious surfing. thanks for all the tips love you gues keep up the good work and have fun

[@Phil-ry2ux]

Looking forward to part 2, just the 4 sails. What will he choose? Its going to be 8.4, 7.8, 6.8 & 5.8 because I doubt he would use the 5.0 anyway. Seems they are making the gaps between the sizes larger these day. They used to have 9.0, 8.4, 7.8, 7.0, 6.4, 5.8 for the 6 sails on PWA.

[@Phil-ry2ux]

Another point about fin size for us mere mortals is we dont go as fast as the PWA peeps, so we need a slightly larger fin to get the same lift. I use a 46cm fin with my largest 8.5m 2 cam freeride sail & 80cm wide freerace board, I'm only doing 25 knots average on a very good day.

[@dedekam123]

Yes, that is true. Concerning Jordys point about large fins pushing the nose down, I put the mastbase as far back as possible when using large fins. This setup gets me going in very light winds.

[@Phil-ry2ux]

@@dedekam123 I also use the very back on the large board, the deckplate covers the hole. But on that old Exocet the mast track is very far forward on the board. I use 130-131cm from the back of the board.

[@justincho9527]

Really amazing video! Very informative 🎉 I would like to ask how board sizes can be adapted for the regular folk who is much lighter. I am personally 60kg. What would be my optimal small medium and large board size?

[@tatatatata-ss4fj]

The fact that mm's of difference make a big difference is killing windsurfing. By all means, normal people do not have the time, devotion to figure this out. We just want to have fun every session.

[@FrancoisTCS]

This is valid for slalom competition gear… other type of gear are more tolerant and less sensitive to the tuning.

[@basmank407]

❤

[@Tony-lc7op]

🤙🏻

[@dimitrisgiannatos9782]

Hello ! You put the 44cm for 8,4sm and for 9sm also ? Or bigger for the 9sm ? Thank you

[@Clint_Moto34]

Will there be a livestream ? I want to watch the race but i cant visit..

[@WindsurfingTV]

No live stream unfortunately

[@svenball5384]

i never get the point for the board restriction as they have the 3 sizes anyway

[@Phil-ry2ux]

I think it makes it cheaper for amateurs to fly their kit, 2 board & 4 rigs. There arent many professionals left in the world anyway who get everything paid.

[@svenball5384]

@@Phil-ry2ux Fair point. I thought the kit is registered at the registration day. But when this happen prior to the event thats a different story.

[@iacobp]

That rule was more relevant back in the day when boards didn't have the range and pros maybe had 5 boards.

[@pietroprestininzi]

am I the only one doubting anyone can really feel the difference between +-1 cm downhaul?

[@lucsalomons4474]

Probably you are not the only one one, but 1cm definitely makes a big difference on race sails.

[@pietroprestininzi]

@@lucsalomons4474 i Remember a video (prien?) of a single blind test on fins ( race/free/carbon/g10) and he was struggling to feel the difference.

[@FrancoisTCS]

@@lucsalomons4474 @pietrprestininzi you are probably not alone, with my free race sails it does make a big difference. It is more like a tipping point, below a certain tension the sail is heavy and pulls hard in my arms but I feel like a speed limiter, with the right tension or above - I don’t really know - the sail is lighter and the speed limiter is gone. Like Jordy says, try it, you will feel it.