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Member#: 9786 Location: Registered: 25-03-2011 Diary Entries: 3
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4th August 2007
Windsurfing: Minster Wind Direction: SW Wind Stength: 15mph Surf / Sea State: Flat Air Temperature: 25 Sea Temperature: Weather: Sunny and cloudless Max Speed: Distance Covered:
Arranged a 121 lesson with Ricky to work on my carve gybes. Turned up at
1:30pm and rigged my 7.5m, it looked like there would just be enough to
plane on it. Ricky arrived and went through a land drill of what I should
be doing. Then we hit the water with him following me. Got planing about
half the time. Did some dry gybes and realised that my weight is to far
back in the gybe. Came in for a break and then went out again but the wind
had died a bit and it was harder to plane, this time I sat on my board
watching Ricky do a few gybes, then he watched me and said I was leaning
too far back and that was causing my falling off. He also said I was
stepping too late. I should learn forward during the gybe and get the boom
near my chest. I should also bear off a bit more before coming out of the
straps as I tend to initiate the gybe when I am sailing upwind of a beam
reach. I then did some free sailing and put these tips into action with a
bit more success, blasted out almost to the wreck but turned back as it is
a long way out. The wind then died so I called it a day.
I am now itching to get out again and try and perfect those gybes, Ricky
said I am almost there so I will do lots of practise and then have another
lesson with Ricky!
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