How to go UP-WIND in windsurfing! Improve your upwind reach with these simple techniques.

Thanks for sharing. It helps a lot.....!!!!

Thanks, I'll try next time ! 've been sailing for 20 years but never been able to go upwind proper'y.. it always limited the fun of my wave sessions and it's been frustrating.
I realise I always have my front knee bend and back leg straight. I.ll try the other way around next time !
What about heel/tow pressure ? Do I keep my feet flat or do I put pressure on heel or tow ?

Also, even though I'm pretty good at tracking, i do not really lean thé sail back when I want to sail ypwind (I do it for tracking only).

After 15 years of wave sailing, I'm back to slalom and it seems like a very good school to get bzck to the fundamentals. I can loop forward or do aerials, but feels stupid when i need to go upwind !

Bro ,you are the first one explaining it so clear that I got it watching your video once .Great job.Greetings from Spain 🫡

boom back, body foward, look at upwind... thanks

Great tutorial very helpful I did find it hard at first but you get there in the end 👍👍

Again, too much words🤣🤣🤣

indeed it feels strange and kinda overdoing it (or posing even). Arrived at this stance by trying many combinations and was feeling a bit silly ("surely it can't be correct, but somehow this works!") but thanks for analyzing it all and making sense of it.

Вот парню бы косичку обрезать нормальный бы мужик получился..😉

thanks for this! would you recommend short tacks or long tacks?

Aloha

That will change my sailing for sure!

Niice ! Thanks man 😊

Great video thanks!

Really awesome. I love your body position coaching cues. Works. Getting my body into the right place in 3 manageable steps at first. Cool!

Είσαι τέλειος πάνω στην σανίδα

15 seconds in and I'm like... Wait a minute.. This looks familiar.

Absolutely love this place in Rhodes. Completely recommend to anyone looking for a windsurfing holiday in Europe!

Έβλεπα Έλληνα τόσο καιρό και δεν το είχα πάρει πρέφα. Αλλά ας μπω στο κλίμα των σχολίων. Thank you very much Kyriakos, you teached me how to steer. It was really hard to do it by myself!! Keep up the good work!

As im learning i am not transitioning into planing and have no idea how i will ever get out of the middle of the board... tips for this learning phase would be good... it seems there are the very early learning curve bideos and then carve gybing at high speed... but nit much in between..

Thank you for the clear explanation!

I'm so glad I found you! keep teaching us your knowledge!!!

This is the video that i have been looking forward to. thanks a lot!!
one quick question, by seeing pro surfers the gap between outhaul line and center of the board is pretty close, it looks like almost touching the board, when I try to bring the sail back as much as they do my board is spining out and loosing speed.
what is the problem?

Thank you Kyriakos... really good tips here, everytime i tried this position its really uncomfortable and i feel like im doing something wrong and i stopped.. but now u mentioned it i will keep trying until it feels natural..🤙👍

Thank you! For wave gear: Would you recommend pressure on the windward or leeward rail?

Can you do a downwind and beam reach tutorial? Do you always close the sail and put your weight in front?

But i thought weightening the windward rail is especialy helpful for small fins because the whole length of the rail is helping to Go upwind and not only the fin. Weightening the leeward rail i thought is for Race/freeride boards?

I tend to lose too much speed and come off the plane when sailing upwind, what could be causing this? I can't put too much pressure on the fins as I sail the thruster 21 + 2*11cm on my 105 Kode so I do engage my front leg. TNX - great videos - loving the channel

Nice video. When planing ,usually all it takes to start an upwind course (not too close but gets you up) is just looking pretty high upwind. That alone seems to make all the adjustments to stance etc that somehow it works....

Donˋt you weight the windward rail for going upwind?

Thank you boss. Good seasons... 👌

that was exactly my Problem last Session ! :D I get into the Harnessline and it turnes streight downwind. Seems like I have to work harder ! Great Job Kyriakos

Do you also weigh up the harness to keep the board speed up and to prevent it from turning into the wind?

Great video! Exactly what I needed to learn. I will go out to practice this evening.

Thank you again for a good video. I'm not at this stage yet but good to get information! I am struggling with getting planing, just as I am getting on the plane my board starts to wobble from side to side. Or then the board just really lifts out of the water and then tip over to the side and crash. Some say I have too much weight on the back foot. Some say get planing before getting into the harness. Some say get planing while in the harness. I'm lost 😅 help!