How to Duck Gybe | 5 Tips
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this video I give my top tips for learning the duck gybe, hope it helps :)
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Chapters:
Context: (00:00)
Bigger arc: (00:14)
Get further forward: (1:05)
Timing of the duck: (2:10)
More attempts: (2:45)
Practice off the water: (3:22)
Who's learning the duck gybe?
👍 Those descriptions of the Duck gybes were excellent and very precise, and as I'd founded my own Windsurfing school 40 × years ago it was fabulous to watch but I wish it was me performing the demonstrations and every other aspect of the sport again also.
Thanks Mark
Really great vid
still on power gybe here🤚
duck is next..
thanks for tips
Something I have noticed is that a lot of the initial pivot of the sail happens on your backhand position which is not right at the end of the boom. I think this makes the pivot closer to your body rather than pushing the sail way out over the mast base where you would have to reach a long way. Normally when I bring my front hand back, the sail is still going forward which seems unnecessary. Good video.
Thanks Kyle. Yeah that’s exactly right about the backhand. For me it took a bit of trial and error on where to have the back hand. I found if I had it too far forward I couldn’t control the power in the sail when I unhooked and when it was super far back the mast would often hit the water when I let the front hand go, after a lot of superman crashes out the front door I worked out that somewhere in between was best 😂
Did my first one yesterday on the sea. But still with a lot of fails cuz I don't get the right timing to duck the sail... So I finish overpowered on the sail. Think I'm waiting a bit too long. But I'm absolutely STOKED lol. I could even record it with my gopro 💥🙌🚀
Great vid Will! Are you in Dakhla here??
Thanks James. This is actually Dahab, Egypt
Nice work Will! Where is this place with such perfect flat water?
Thanks :) It's Dahab, Egypt
Hello great as always your video, for several weeks now Im trying duck jibe (After Helitack, Quicktack now the 3th move thanks to you 🙏) , Its working in lighter winds, but in stronger winds I miss a point: After ducking the sail and pulling it back the wind pulls the sail leewards and I have to let it out of my hands in order not to fall leewards too. perhaps the sail is still leaning to much forwards ? your advise?thanks for considering!
Thanks :) It sounds like the problem you’ve having is that you have too much power in your sail as you’re ducking it. Try to make sure you’re going as fast as you can before you flip the sail, this reduces the power in the sail and makes it feel lighter so it’s easier to handle. I personally found that ducking the sail slightly earlier also helped with this problem. Hope that helps :) (If you have any footage I’d be happy to take a look)
Thanks for your proposition but difficult for me to get footage. Observing what happens I see the mast not going toward the centre of the carving circle but stays still on the new lee side. as the sail is flipping like a book page , only the end of the wishbone changing sides. Hope Im clear🤔
Nailed it ! flipping the mast towards the center of the carving circle was the point ! next move: duck tuck ! thanks for your videos 🎉🙏
@@khadanse-DJ-KHA Awesome!!! Glad to hear it 🔥💪
awesome so hard
Tip 4 is the most important. I did my first one last year - probably after 20 attempts, and 20 crashes. And I did it on what i consider my weak tack for gybing (starboard). Shortening the length of the run is key. Crashing is inevitable. My problem was the sail hitting the water on the duck.
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I had that issue too and as much fun as it was doing a superman out the front door I fixed it by not having my back hand so far down the boom before I let the front hand go
@@willnicholls5 gonna nail this on both tacks in Vass this summer.
@@willnicholls5 With a 6.5 Ezzy Cheetah with a lot of cloth under the boom, this becomes quite tricky ;-)
@@florianbauch3581 Yeah I've always found it to be way harder on bigger sails. I remember trying to duck gybe a 7m cammed Naish boxer 😂
I would love to learn the Duck gybe but at my homespot I need either big sails (8m2+) with a low foot profile and booms over 2.3m or it becomes very gusty. On open water, where I can use smaller sails, I'm struggling with chop in the gybes. So it seems I cant find the right conditions for Duck gybing... Any tips on that?
In your video it looks really flat while you can sail a 4,5 m2 sail. I've never found such conditions ever... where is this paradise?
You can only practice in the conditions that are available to you and I appreciate most people can’t easily practice consistently in perfectly flat water (btw this is Dahab, Egypt). I’d say out of the 2 options it will be easier to learn when you can use your smaller sails (duck gybing on big sails is certainly a challenge even for advanced duck gybers).
I would also recommend practicing on a simulator on land. You can learn a lot on land. I spent lots of time practicing my hand movements and footwork on a simulator to the point where it just became muscle memory and gave me less to think about when I practiced on the water.
Dahab is it! 😍
Certainly is 😁
@@willnicholls5 was working 2000/2001 windsurf instructor by heiko!
Where was this video taken!?!
In Dahab, Egypt