hand gestures like an Italian +1 :)

Very precious video. Straight to the point. Most of the concepts I have felt while surfing, but did not understand then. Now much clearer. Thanks.

@WindsurfingNils

4 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video :)

Awesome! Thanks for the tips. I would love a masterclass session so I can learn from you, I bet I can learn a lot! Also looking forward to the flat water advice!

Liked and subscribed since ages and commented everything 😉

@WindsurfingNils

11 ай бұрын

bester mann, grüße :)

What a fantastic catapult at 3:03 😉

Super tips - railing the board is the most important. What about the size of footstraps - seems to me it makes a huge differens too? Maybe a video about this subject?

Thank you for the tips! 😎

Thanks - great tips

Hi Nils, great video!! Thanks for the tips👌 👍.

Thank you for those tips🤙

Excellent - this is what we need... 🙂 Great video and summary. Thank you ! Note: there was a time indeed when I was surprised to hear about your very short harness lines but depending on the slalom vs. pure speed conditions / "agreed".

Thanks a lot. I'll try the longer harness lines :-). In my local spot chop can be extreme, like riding an angry bull and getting thrown around all the time. But I try to see it as a challenge, good fun and excellent training. Until I come to the jibe part, where being thrown hopelessly around on the water makes it very hard to acheive a full planing exit (but when I do, I feel like a hero). My best advise in harsh chop is to switch to a more wavy board. I go from my starboard Carve 135 to my Starboard Aero 127 in very hard chop, and the difference is extreme though both boards being very close in size. If you could ever make a video about jibing in extreme chop, I would be very happy 🙂... All the best Per Denmark

I really enjoyed this masterclass format! Great tips, looking forward to more :)

@WindsurfingNils

11 ай бұрын

Thanks! More coming ;)

This is great stuff. I was out in some chop yesterday. Im getting some new lines!

@WindsurfingNils

8 ай бұрын

always a good idea :)

Thanks Nils, I never used to have problems going fast in the chop, but now that I'm older, it's a lot more challenging. Your tips seem to make perfect sense, apart from the last one - I've always used a seat harness and to me it makes perfect sense to engage the strongest muscles in the body (the quads) to resist the sail pressure, rather than the back muscles as I believe you would with a waist harness. I suppose I'll have to bite the bullet and get a waist harness, but would you mind telling me whether you have personal experience using both back-to-back please? Thanks again for the excellent content.

@niclaskarlin

11 ай бұрын

I have both, since I also wave sail. I'll try waist some time!

Nice video

Wow great video nice summary. I’d say with experience I prefer seat harness even on chop, keeps me down and locked. I did some experimenting and my speed on seat was faster even on choppy

@WindsurfingNils

11 ай бұрын

Interesting, I have tried in the past but never felt comfortable with a seat harness, especially in rough conditions

I have to say, I sail in some of the nastiest chop in the United States. Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans is incredibly nasty. The lake is generally 10-15 feet deep, and creates hellacious chop on anything other than a southerly wind. There is no rolling swell that one can line up and make a run at, it is disorganized, utter chaos. Very tough to master.

@jimmycricketlopez2746

8 ай бұрын

Oh yeah thanks for sharing Yankee doodle. It means a lot and we appreciate ur valuable feedback. Keep it coming 🤮

@Dean-qt3rp

8 ай бұрын

@@jimmycricketlopez2746 Do you have some problem, potna??

Hi nils, great content as ever. And thanks for your tips. I had a gusty and wavy session on monday and since after a lot of backpain, due to my harness, i am searching for buying a new one. What type of waist harness did you use in the video @1:25 ? The back of the harness seems very long and back friendly. 🤙🏼🙋

#1 I heard somewhere that the mast foot should be as far back and the boom down. Mast foot placement is controlled by how easy planing is, I think. I need to re-think my boom height it seems.

Great list! 2:00 shows Luderitz, the least choppy place in the world. :-D

@WindsurfingNils

11 ай бұрын

actually the key for me for last year's Lüderitz was to handle the chop, only then I got faster, most other speed places are way flatter...

The forth sounds so easy, but when I try it, I'm having a hard time predicting the wave speed. So I'm always finding myself in a different state of the wave, than what I predicted.

So with longer harness lines, this means that we are bending more at the waist? The distance from the boom to our shoulders can't change, unless I guess some people aren't sailing with their arms fully extended?

I'm getting back pain from long harness lines.

@WindsurfingNils

11 ай бұрын

True you get more stress on the back, sailing in chop is tough on the body!

nice, nowadays the universe says buy a foil hehe

2:59 I had the same crash 2 weeks ago because the nose kept on lifting and I lost control

@WindsurfingNils

11 ай бұрын

it happens ;)

what are five fips?

another tip is to avoid getting suggestions from someone who really sucks in the water.

@WindsurfingNils

11 ай бұрын

just wanted to share what helped me improve, but feel free to critique...

@joakimhansson1322

10 ай бұрын

Irrelevant perhaps, but when becoming a parent you get a trilliant tips. Some you follow and some you don’t without comment to a relative or friend. Sometimes we didn’t follow our own tips… 🤔