Your videos are always getting better and seem to cover my current problems every time! What a gift! Thanks cookie!!

@Cookiesports

13 күн бұрын

Great to hear it! Most of these videos I make are based on problems and barriers. My students are encountering while I coach them here in Vassiliki. It’s all very real world and I’m coaching the points that I know work with the students! Glad you find them helpful too.

Thanks a lot for your videos. 👍🤙

@Cookiesports

11 күн бұрын

Thank you! 🤩

Super Cookie

@Cookiesports

11 күн бұрын

🤩🤩

You make complex subjects easy to understand.

@Cookiesports

13 күн бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed them

A really useful explanation of harness control, and getting going.

@Cookiesports

13 күн бұрын

Thanks!

That is exactly what I just happened to be looking for after struggling 2 days ago with power in the sail but not going anywhere

@Cookiesports

13 күн бұрын

Glad it helps! I am working on another harness video, the third one in the short series, cranking up the power, speed and forces involved! Coming soon!

gift that keeps on giving!

@Cookiesports

11 күн бұрын

🤩🤩🤩

Thanks cookie , can't wait to try a few of your tips

@Cookiesports

11 күн бұрын

Hope they help!

Amazing insight (as always)! Thanks Cookie!

@Cookiesports

13 күн бұрын

Thank you

Nice 🔥

@Cookiesports

11 күн бұрын

Thanks 🤩

intermediate here.. i though my setup was perfect... but after 2 hours my back hands were struggling.. it was just about 2! centimeters too much to the front on the boom. So i rearranged the lines and i did an hour more because no pulling on the hands anymore.. the setup felt completely different and i was a bit faster too. So yes! This video is good :)

@Cookiesports

11 күн бұрын

Perfect, every centimetre helps!

Great video, Cookie! For an intermediate or advanced windsurfer, what are the pros and cons of a seat harness vs a waist harness when it comes to getting planing and also when it comes to control in high wind?

Hello Cookie, I’ve the issue when I seal in chop condition where I’m hook out. I don’t known if it’s a matter of wrong stance or harness length. Any suggestion?

@Cookiesports

11 күн бұрын

Ease up the grip on the boom… pulling the sail right and the hook will pop out.

I'm starting to planing, mostly out of control. Conditions are usually choppy so it happens often that I unhook unwillingly. Is this happening because I am more squatting down rather backwards?

@Cookiesports

2 күн бұрын

Squatting/leaning back will both keep tension in the line and you won’t un-hook… chances are you’re taking too much weight in your arms so no tension in the lines.

@theylive1999

Күн бұрын

​@@Cookiesportsthanks!!

what? no catapault demo?

@Cookiesports

13 күн бұрын

Ha ha ha! Not in this one! Although I did post a few big crashes on my Instagram recently if you saw them?

hey cookie, is it better to first hook into the harness and then push the board away and plane, or is it better to first push the board away, plane, get into the front footstrap and only then hook in?

@Cookiesports

11 күн бұрын

Both ways are good… you have more freedom unhooked- but then harder work on you hands/arms. On the other side unhooked you can get lower and drive the board with more force… but likely will have to head further off the wind!

Ok quick question. Yesterday I windsurfed in 6+ bft with a 4.5 sail and there were moments that I could not pull the sail at all in order to speed up. The wind was keeping it neutral. Consequently in many instances it was hard for me to hook in as I could not pull the sail as much as I'd like get in the straps etc. What do I do in such cases? Should I for example have the harness lines much closer to the mast, stand close to it in order to hook in and start pulling the sail with my body? My arms could not overcome the power of the gusts!

@furan4713

12 күн бұрын

Try getting upwind like you were almost preparing for a tack so the sail will be light then hook in and then fall off down wind

@Cookiesports

11 күн бұрын

Start further upwind! When you do that the sail will de-power and e closer to you- making hooking in much easier.

@lefterislef5630

11 күн бұрын

@@Cookiesports thanks a lot for the reply!!

@lefterislef5630

11 күн бұрын

@@furan4713 thanks for the tip!!

What do you do to not let the harness ride up? In this video your harness is way too much up for my liking, i want it lower.

@Cookiesports

11 күн бұрын

Hook for waist harnesses should be around your belly button…as mine is in the video. If the pull of the lines is away (not up) the harness will not rise up. Follow the tips in the video and you’ll be fine ✅

the movements are so subtil that they hard to see it on video. How do you get to have your back hand so close to the harness line and still have leverege no pull in the sail. watching back my videos i see my back hand is no where near the harness line so i can do the trick of flicking the harness line to hook or unhook. kzread.info/dash/bejne/ioei0sysp9i6oZM.html