FULLY PLANING POWER JIBES with these TWO TIPS | Tutorial

What's your biggest challenge in the Power Jibe?

Sa me rappelle ma jeunesse 😊

very nice video, thank you! i'd like to train right now :) - but winter is coming :/

Hi Nico, thanks for the videos. 🙂
Can you do a Spot report for your favorit spots in Europe?

Mon problème ce de faire ça le virement

You nailed it again Nico. Basically with 2 much weight too far back and consequently shifting the sail with the mast pointing too much back adresses >80% of the issue. On top tip apart from where to position your legs is: Bend your legs much more, than what you think you are doing already, to level the board and keep control. Standig upright during the Jibe like a German tin soldier isn't doing any good. Cheers and keep it up.

That all makes sense! Thanks!!!

Such a good video. I have no excuses now. Wish we had videos like these back in the 80s when I started windsurfing

Soooo many years since I sailed! But way back then it was ultra short boards and no buoyancy! So what I used to do was enter the gybe as fast as possible and then plane the board so that I could effectively just hold the mast (even no-hander) and let it rotate around in my hand. It just floated around into the right position ready for power on. Geez I miss doing that. Not the fastest, but uber cool! In those days you had to learn how to plane with such low volume boards.

Thank you to help us improving the jibe 👍🤙

Remember that he's teaching the power jibe technique WHILE USING SLALOM/FREERIDE GEAR. When i use a wave set, I gybe my sail much more later and once it's done my feet are on switch stance (for less than a second though).

Thanks for making my first perfect power jibe happen after this video!

Super👍

One thing that took me long to realise is that compared to your normal sailing position you really have to lean forward and into the bend to keep the board flat front-to-back and carving all the way through the curve. Then, when you’re going fully downwind and there is minimum pressure in the sail, you need to stand back up and actively move the mast past your shoulder. Just letting the sail hand go will not make the sail swing over fully, and in the worst case the new boom side will be so far away that reaching for it will bring you completely out of balance.

You have the best jibe i have ever seen .

Master class explanation. I crossed with you in Defi 2023. Thank you Nico for sharing!

Great video. It's gybe, though.

great tips! I am leaning my mast way too far back ( for an 85 ltr board) and it sinks the tail, slows me down, and turns the rig up wind too much, just as you described. Most of the jibe videos I have watched are with very large boards, so they get away with it, but it doesn't work on a wave board at all. Thank you for pointing out the reasons why.

Hab jetzt endlich am Wochenende meine ersten Powerhälsen geschafft aber ich konnte leider noch nicht ganz Durchgleiten

Sou brasileiro sou muito fã do esporte, windsurf. Não tenho condições de compra uma vela. Se augem tiver um usando e pode doar ❤

A good way to practice jibes is to sail with inverted sail.

Great tips as usual Nico!
I will follow your advice and focus on improving one thing only first in my gybes. The weight distribution.

i got this down in the mid ninties,after wreaking a few sails ,..im 62 yo with a buggered neck these days..back then was a buzz ,loved this sport..greeting from australia

Great 🤙

You are the North Star when it comes to Power jibing, Nico

Many thanks Nico. Now I want some wind to practice!!!

Thanks for the Vid and the Help !

The first secret : stop swaping your foot during the jibe. Keep the front foot in the strap and get speed in Switch stance position.

Thanks

I don't think I've ever done a jibe in my entire windsurfing life that's as good as any of the jibes you post on this channel!
It's funny to me that the simple act of turning around is such a big deal in windsurfing. In other sports, like snowboarding for example, turning around or shifting direction is no big deal, but not so in windsurfing. It's a big deal and hard to master, especially if you want to fully plane all the way through a jibe and exit with speed. That's not easy! I appreciate all your tips though. I think you're spot on about keeping the board level and keeping the mast upright, or at least not tilted back or tilted to the outside of the jibe when flipping the sail.

I think my fornt foot is near the fron footstrap, so I'll try to step a bit closer to the base!
Thank you Nic, but please don't step with the shoes on the board, you are breaking my heart!

Do you have more tips widen the carving radius? I want to make a long turn gybe but always carve deep and lose balance.

I will tray it

Amazing knowledges for me. Thanks.

I ve probably watched every jibe tutorial, this one is the best. You pointed out the parts of the jibe where I fail...Keep the videos coming, thanks for your help...

Excellent video! Weight more forward and rig upright, got it!

Vielen Dank Nico, das waren zwei sehr hilfreiche Tipps, die man sonst sehr selten hört. Ich werde sie in zwei Wochen testen gehen!

спасибо, сразу захотелось покататься ))

Very good video!

Bad form excuse: "Yeah, I did that on purpose. It's my pivot jibe!" 😂

Fuck my life! I have been stalling my Jibes for years and turns out it is the weight in the back problem. My Jibes look and end exactly as your example of weight in the back, it's like watching myself. To make matters worst, I do flip the rig when the mast is way behind so there you go! Can't wait for some wind to try correcting this and give you feedback. Thanks for opening my eyes!

what helped me massively is to push hips forward in a gybe and not just bend the legs, also a must-do is to drop and hang after flipping the sail

This is brilliant

das ewige Thema "Powerhalse", es lohnt sich immer wieder über das Thema ein Video zu drehen. Das hier hat mir besonders gut gefallen ! 😀

Must be one of the best videos to learn the perfekt jibe

Die Powerhalse ist so komplex, dazu kannst Du noch in 20 Jahren Filme hochladen 😉

The jibe.... Probably the most analyst move in windsurfing. Your jibe is one of the best out there. I really love it. But regarding tips, my personal observation is, that many guys and girls are so bad with the foot work, that they simply not get there where your tips start. They are not able to do the jibe "dance", how I call it. (It is timing and precise foot work, like learning a dance) Regarding timing they are always to late.