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78COACHING WINDWISE TECHNIQUE
HELICOPTER TACK
As with so many aspects in the Windwise Skills Training System, core skills have a habit of reappearing elsewhere in the sport. Here’ s Shifting and Switching mid helicopter tack. By reducing the foot movement to a simple, shift, switch you’ ll create solid foundations for the move, which we’ ll cover in full later.
Note how the front foot is by the mast base. Warrior, chin on shoulder, is used to rake the rig to turn through the wind.
When the sail touches the rear leg, the rear foot steps forward to wrap around the mast base, to crucially establish a new front foot. As the sail is rotated the new rear foot steps back.
SIMON SAYS …
You’ ll hopefully have seen how, Vision, Opposition, Warrior stance and similar tight close shift & switch of the feet links into these three different moves. Break it down and practice on land as much as possible, but avoid looking at those feet! As ever any questions fire away and see you on the water for 2018.
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