Your fast tack is quite impressive

@Cookiesports

3 ай бұрын

Thanks

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

@lachywocky

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

@Cookiesports

2 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍

That anticipated back winded drop was a fabulous example.

@Cookiesports

Жыл бұрын

👍

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

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed them!

Another excellent teaching. ❤ thank you so much 😊

@Cookiesports

11 ай бұрын

Thanks 😍

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍👍

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

@Cookiesports

2 жыл бұрын

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

Love you sessions man. You're a good teacher

@Cookiesports

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

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

@Cookiesports

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad I could help! 🤙🤙

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

@Cookiesports

2 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍👍

thx

@Cookiesports

Жыл бұрын

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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

2 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍👍👍

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

2 жыл бұрын

Hope to see you next year! 👍

Thank you for all your videos they are soooo good

@Cookiesports

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! 🤙🤙

Cannon ball!! Loved it

@Cookiesports

2 жыл бұрын

🤣

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

@Cookiesports

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 👍👍👌

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

@Cookiesports

2 жыл бұрын

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

God those tacks are tricky.

@Cookiesports

2 жыл бұрын

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

@speedquestwindsurfing

2 жыл бұрын

@@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?

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

2 жыл бұрын

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! 👍

Best!!!!Thanksssss!!!!

@Cookiesports

2 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍👍👍

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

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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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

2 жыл бұрын

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.

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.

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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👏🖒

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

@Cookiesports

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

@Cookiesports

2 жыл бұрын

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! 👍

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

@@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

2 жыл бұрын

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?

Is this recorded about now, beginning of October?

@Cookiesports

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

@Cookiesports

2 жыл бұрын

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Great; at 3 bft ?

@Cookiesports

2 жыл бұрын

👌👌👌