Windsurfing Tutorial: HOW TO DUCK JIBE in 3 STEPS | ​with @Nico Prien

Dear Nico,
Thanks for all the videos, the instructions, and all the help. You cover extremely exciting topics with fantastic style and thoroughness. As an intermediate freerider, I learned a lot of useful things from you and I always look forward to the next video, whether it's an experience report or a tutorial.
I would like to share some ideas about what I would like to listen to on your channel in the future. (If there has ever been a similar one, I apologize.)
- What smartwatch do you use for racing and training? What are the most useful functions for you, and what is a freerider sure to find useful? Are there other technical tools that still help you?
- Waist harness, Crossover Harness (e.g. Dakine XT), Seat harness. Differences in body position and harnessline length. Health reasons.
- Where should we set the mast and footstraps? I feel like none of them are ever in the right place.

Great tips advice 😂

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Hello good morning, it would be interesting if you could translate into Spanish. Greetings.

helped me so much

Hi Nico, yet another great video tutorial. What went wrong, when the mast drops into the water in the moment of the rigg flip making me fly over the board like an eagle :-) ? Any hint is apprectiated,

Thx Nico, really nice instructions. Especially what ordinary mistakes are made.

Love your videos, your explanations are really clear, and we clearly understand what you mean when you're trying to explain.

Another great tutorial😁

Yes.

Where are the days that Robby Naish showed REAL duck jibes, carving like crazy, with his nose almost in the water?!

With your tutorial I learned foil jibe in three days. Duckjibe will take maybe one week? xD

really helpful, i got to try next weekend in Torbole

Muy buen video, gracias desde Barcelona.

Yessss, I want one of these caps so badly. Unfortunately I was on holiday when the last video dropped and only got to see it 2 weeks later. By the time I had arrived back home the caps had already sold out. Tbh I dont care about the colour, though I do prefer the gray and black and gray and red ones. I'm sure this tutorial is going to come in handy for me one day, but currently I've gotta work on my flip jibes and using my harness. Thx for the amazing vids tho

I hope soon be ready to try it . thanks

Cool - and short :-) Thanks a lot , it is motivating!

Give me free cap pls

Amazing videos ! thank you for being such a help for many people and most importantly thank you for speaking in english !!!

Thank you so much for this tutorial. Very clear and I can't wait for wind conditions to throw myself into it (or better the sail of course)! Loads of crashes to come but definitely looking forward to it! Might need a tough nose protector though ;)

just subscribe, after 15 years i come back in windsurf, Im sure this cap will help me a lot to come back in windsurfing

Me and many of my friends are still studying so we don’t have such a big budget. Would be great to get some advice about which board, sails are good for different skill levels and body weights. it doesn’t have to be new it can be surf material from prior years. We all used to surf with gear we had from our parents. Now we’re looking forward to get some own gear. Doesn’t sound that hard but honestly with all those options of board and sail sizes shapes it gets pretty difficult to filter out what actually is a good setup for a normal everyday person just like us. A gear guide for average surfer would be great.

Example: I am struggling with a power jibe, than fall into the water, conditions are making a water start not possible- how much liter should the Bord have in order to have enough elevation to start the board with the starting rope - for the case one can’t do a water-start due to certain conditions

This comment is purely for winning a cap. Maybe a bit late though

I neeeeed that cap!!😱😱😱 And of course as always, good video! :)

Great videos, Nico! Going windsurfing for the first time in 30 years tomorrow, your videos are a great refresher 👍🏻

Again a very good Video. Thanks for the good explanation! Now i am looking forward to train this jibe again

Those lake conditions looked quite tricky random wavy conditions. It is easier on the sea near the beach with smooth water between small waves with onshore wind.. An alternative method of starting to learn the duck gybe ( for 70 Kg adult ) is when you have a 5m 2 or 6m2 sail and you have just enough power to be planing [ not going maxed out ] then sailing parallel to waves and once you have a good stance for going round the corner and back hand a bit further back than normal planing then just let go of the front of the boom, the mast will drop near the water, so make sure your clew hand on boom doesn't let the mast touch the water or you will cannonball. Reach with what was your mast hand round and grab the new side of boom as far forward as comfortable [ maybe half way between clew & harness lines ] then what was your clew hand lets go of old side of boom and hopefully reaches new side between harness lines and mast but more forward the better. You will be sailing along on new reach with your back hand holding in reverse of normal grip. If your front hand is forward of the harness lines you can probably let go of back of boom if things aren't going well so that sail can flap to neutral and hopefully you can keep surfing out of it. NB make sure you still have more than a metre depth of water so that if you do cannon ball that you won't hit the bottom with outstretched arm.

Sehr hilfreich!💯🔥

Watched this on duckduckgo...

Good advices, thx Nico!

super helpful! thanks Nico! also I want to win the cap!

For me personally, on a wave board, i find it easier to stay in footstraps for the entire move and finish on a switch stance. That way you dont have to find the perfect moment as the sail, once grabbed on the other side, wont catapult you.

Also you can add some extra style to it as while you lean inside the corner you can swipe the water with your hand :D

Hi

Nice Video. Da weiß ich ja schon was ich im Urlaub trainiere 😍🔥 mach weiter so 🤙

Great tips man especially the focuspoints are a good help! Btw is the planing foiltack already succesfull?

I am practicing DUCK JIBE. I do quite similar but I lose speed when switching. Sometimes it works. I know what I'm doing wrong :)

Gotta love the high-end production quality + content of the vids. Ty!

Absolutely spot on, Nico. I learned to duck gybe in an afternoon in 1986 in 23kts on flat water ('Canadian Hole', on the Sound, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina) on wave kit/5.0sq m.

Great video! Would be interesting to learn more about the freeride board (Carve) that you mentioned.

Good explanation. I see what i’ve been doing wrong al thise years. Now I have been cleared by the docters I can be surfing again. I will try to duckgibe whit your tips in mind and on my phone to look back. Thanks for the nice video again.

I wely enjoy ol your Vedeos and you halpe me to enjoy the sport even more

being modest i used to do perfect duck jibes...30 years ago. Then i totally forgot about them. This winter i remeber them and started to try it again, and for the last two weeks i had the intention to get them to my top level, but the wind is just to strong. i can do them in one reach but not in the opposite. Today is already 30 knots again....

Hat pls

I really enjoy your videos. You're doing such a good job.

Really cool, now you can make tutorial about 360 downwind;).

Awesome Nico. One of my favorite maneuvers. Your tutorials are still one of the best. I would love to see one about the Airjibe. I just don't get that board around enough. Anyhow, keep up the great work. Big fan of you! Cheers from Ireland

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I have duckjibed before but this really helped me summing all important things up and remembering

Well explained Nico! Nice one to try step by step. Thanks!