WindsurfingUK issue 4 July 2017 | Page 81

81 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 uk WIND SURFING