Such clear and concise instruction. Also the quality of these videos is amazing. Beautiful scenery, music and high quality camera, editing and film work. Amazing contribution to the windsurfing community on youtube. Thank you.

@danielmeneer3911

6 жыл бұрын

ghost 1 ab

@niclasb

6 жыл бұрын

This inspirational video with the massage music is so overexposed my head hurts. Good tips though.

Key things that aren't explicitly mentioned that make all the difference: 1 ) look back over your shoulder at your wake when you carve. That will make you sheet in and keep speed 2) as you carve if you make sure that you are on your toes and your heels aren't weighted then it is impossible to stand upright and you will retain you speed 3) when you flip the rig make sure your arm is bent, then the boom won't swing heavily as the mast will be upright 4) flip the rig when you're on the new reach. Don't leave it too late. And most important of all. 5) the faster you are travelling the lighter and easier the rig flip is.

The Best jibe instructional out there! I've been windsurfing for 30 yrs and this is THE BEST. Eveything about it is perfect. The dry land, the multiple on water angles, shots of the footwork, the slow motions of all the key steps, everything. Well done and thank you Sam!!! JK

This is so wonderfully helpful! i had sort of given up WS a decade plus,, broke a shoulder but , now i just bought 3 year old board instead of 30 year old boards,, just got back to waterstart end of last season, beaches closed from covid,, and i never had this clarity,, i would enter the jibe planing and then be lost,, and here Thank you, such a wonderful job of slowly calmly breaking it down, the land demo the on the water, the from the upper sail down at the feet to the leeward rail, just so very nicely done, and so Thank you for doing this

An interesting use of modeling the action on the dry land using 4 of your cohort. It helps A LOT. Congratulations on this innovation. Thanks, Sam, I always study these videos. Windsurfing is the Greatest Sport on Earth

@alexwingsurf6304

6 жыл бұрын

Johan P me too :D

There's a very good instruction part by Mr. Ross from 2:40. "Tiny" things like "sheet it and push push though the toes" valuable tips. So for everybody's convenience I've subtitled it. I hope it will benefit to you all! Regards, Ruben The key areas we're going look at for that gybe are where we look, so how we use the head, the relationship between our body and the rig, and then that last bit, what our feet are doing. And the key thing with the gybe, is to make sure it's well prepared. It's the only time we can think about it and move our body round. But more importantly get our board pointing on the right point of sale to get the highest chance of getting out smoothly and quickly. So have a check around and make sure you can get to go. Slide the backhand down the boom, sink our weight, and sheet in and look down wind as you push though the toes, to bear the board off onto board reach. At this stage we're going to unhook, and sink our weight low again. The backfoot comes out of the strap, and move across the board, so it gets into the gybe. So for the entry, look down the boom, and over our inside shoulder. And try to get to get a backhand next to heads. The backfoot rolls over the inside and here we're carving with soft knees, over the chopping conditions. With the front arm extended and right back by the harness lines, we're focusing on getting our head next that backhand to make it carve smoothly. As we come to that midpoint now, we keep looking to the inside of the turn, over that shoulder. We're gonna start slowly ease out the backhand to move the sail to the outside of the turn. And as you feel our body twist, you can now swith the feet. So the frontfoot comes the backfoot, and we step forward. Both feet on the inside rail and still looking out the turn We're now on to the exit. We just slide our hand up to the boomclamp. So keep looking out the turn, the hand slides up the boomclamp for the rigflip. And as we keep looking for the exit, and release the rig, move the hand underneath, and let the rig come back to us, rather than reaching for it. So we stand up round and way out. Once you clamped both hands back on the boom again, stay low, look out the turn, and keep driving up for some time.

Sam forgot to mention, before you initiate any gybe LOOK BEHIND and downwind in case a kite or foil is blasting up and about to overtake downwind of you! Also, be aware that some sailors are great at tacking, some great at gybing, but some just can’t get both, so don’t feel pissed.

you guys make it look so effortlessly..... ; )

one of the nicest, most informative, slickest videos i have ever seen, defo one for cool-ade

Have watched a lot of gybe videos, but out on the water in mid gybe I dont really seem to remember anything. Then today I suddently remembered the ”look over your shoulder into the turn” instruction from this video and it really made a huge difference to my gybes. Think I will try out a new approach to practice now where I just pick out a single random piece of advice from the videos I watch that I can remember and then focus on just that for the next session.

I really like your new publishings. Thanks for them!

Sam your tutorials are the most amazing I've ever seen. I really did a fine job man!

Simply excellent explanation.

Your tutorials are excellent.

Really helpful. Thanks for posting.

Really love your videos! very well done thanks a lot

Great vid. One thing I see a lot is near the end folks tend to hold the rig too long before flipping it. The rig almost tells you when it wants to go so I let it :)

Great video very helpful, thank you!

Thanks so much!

Genuinely a calm, clear and masterful explanation of the process. Your use of well-timed and brilliantly edited slow motion breakdowns are the best I've EVER seen online!! If only I'd watched this decades ago - oh wait! You probably hadn't even been born then! PS. I'm 60!!

Thanks! !wonderful

Excelent!!

Its Ortakent! I went there.Cool

just thanks!

Nice videos watched all. . Do you planning to make video about rig setup, harness lines, mast base, fins etc. other tips?

@SamRossCoaching

8 жыл бұрын

+sietlas1234 I'll try and get one uploaded.

@sas6045

8 жыл бұрын

+Sam Ross I would be also interested. Thank you!

cool !

Jeez, when did boards get so massive!!?

Big board, not much wind. Nice jibes.

Cool, but do you have any videos on the same jibe but on a formula board which is way harder to carve with?

Where was that filmed ? I want to go there!

Hi Sam nice tutorial I follow all your tutorials and they all very nice. However I got a question for the relative position of the head and hands. Among many tutorials on youtube that I have seen, some people does the gybe with a bend front arm and head basically over the front hand, some has both arms straightened and head is about in between. In your tutorial the head is quite near the back hand and the back hand is bend. Wish you could explain the difference between them. Thank you in advance!

@SamRossCoaching

7 жыл бұрын

Hi Zhenhao, there are a few variations in the Gybe. A lot will depend on how much power you are trying to get rid of and how hard you are trying to Carve. The back hand near your head will mean you are sheeted in and looking to have a nice broad turn. Head near the front hand and much more sheeted in is when you are trying to lay the rig down a little more. Really good when you're overpowered or trying to carve tighter. Below is the link to the lay down gybe. Look at the difference in mast position. kzread.info/dash/bejne/iKeqyLN_iLutdLw.html I hope that helps. Thanks Sam

@kzterminator

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks, you are so informative. I will try it out on the water soon!

Hey Sam... Great videos. One question. When I do the rig flip, the sail is getting powered up quickly from the other side and turns my board. Any suggestions? Am I flipping the rig to early? Thanks!

@SamRossCoaching

7 жыл бұрын

If the rig gets powered up really quickly it sounds like you might be flipping a bit too late. As well if the board hooks up into wind then this sounds like it might be too late. How much pressure is there in the rig when you flip it?

@Ccana003

7 жыл бұрын

Sam Ross Hmmm. I don't think there is much. I change the feet only when the is no pressure in the hands. I'll double check next time out

wich board is that

I come into my gybes with as much speed as possible and invariably loose it all right at the end nearly coming to a stop... any suggestions?

@SamRossCoaching

7 жыл бұрын

Hi Ian, a few things you can play with. The foot change can often be something that kills the speed. Possibly not doing it early enough or thinking about where your feet are when you change them. Your new front foot should go in front of your old back foot to keep the board flat. A flat board is a fast board, so thats the main aim.

@moonshootr

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sam... I took a look at my foot change and realized I was doing it too late and what really kills my speed is they usually end up too far back. I went out yesterday and really focused on changing my feet sooner and getting more forward... I came out of one gybe still nearly planning which was the most amazing feeling. Thanks again.

@SamRossCoaching

7 жыл бұрын

awesome stuff Ian

@ennavaca1370

7 жыл бұрын

Buena explicación

I don t inderstand english but Merci 🤙

Never try to change feet and rigg flip at the same time. Won't work

wich board is rhat

@juliendufresne-gervais3300

8 жыл бұрын

+Sander Dekeyser The first ones (wood) are Starboard Futura in four differents size, the one in carbon is a Starboard iSonic (I would say a 2012 in 117l) and the last one in white with blue stripes I really don't know. I own 3 iSonic and they are super fast !!!

@sanderdekeyser5894

8 жыл бұрын

OK thnx

IS wrong...Main Key for a high performance jibe is that the sailhand must go further back...otherwise you have no chance to control it in full chop with speed

Sam got me somehow puzzled with this looking back over the shoulder in this first phase of the jibe... Somehow different to what I have been used to and to what others suggest.

@SamRossCoaching

9 жыл бұрын

Hi Chris, whether you look straight over your shoulder or not the focus is on looking towards the exit of the gybe. If you do it earlier then you are less likely to get distracted by the rig and it moves across the board and flips. Looking over the shoulder early will solve this problem but you can do it later in the gybe. I hope that helps.

@chriskopec526

9 жыл бұрын

Sam Ross Sam thanks for this explanation. I tested this technique yesterday in very choppy, cold (+3C) and gusty conditions. Indeed it's a good way of keeping the proper body position and keeping the board carving during leg work. Unfortunately I still have the instinct of focusing on what is ahead in order to anticipate when I catch up the next chop during the jibe. This usually kills the planning carve of the board at some point as I loose focus on proper body and leg work. Thanks for posting! Great Stuff!

Never put ur front foot near the edge of the Board after switching feet or u will be thrown into the water, ur foot should be placed in the center line Of the Board Just behind the sail base the only way to stay on the Board when the sail starts pulling, hes doing it wrong but doesnt fall only because Hes using a huge board