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Warrior
laydown
Warrior NPCG
& carve gybe
More reasons to Warrior tack
We’d love to teach you Warrior tacks in person and
then enhance your sailing, be it gybing, waves or
freestyle, here’s what you can do.
Gybing Warriors
Warrior is used in different levels and stages of gybing.
Chin on shoulder, looking, leaning over a flexed knee,
levering the rig back!
In laydowns the rig is raked fully back, the body leans
forward in Warrior.
Warrior 360
In both non-planing and planing gybes, crucially, before
and during the foot change, the body is in Warrior,
Looking (chin on shoulder), and Leaning into the turn
over a flexed carving knee with the rig/mast angled-
Levered the opposite way - clew hand pulled in tight!
Freestyle and waves
So often in waves and all freestyle Warrior is pivotal in
every sense.
Downwind 360 endings require an extreme Warrior
‘tack ending’.
In waves, like this backside wave ride, Warrior is the
way and it feels great!
Full on Warrior to carve that board into the wind!
Warrior wave
Warrior upwind 360
The Warrior tack ending finishes a duck tack.
Warrior duck tack
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