Windwise Core Skills & Actions To help remind you of features gone, here’ s some core Windwise skills that are in this feature. We will say if and when to break these guidelines!
Opposition
Sailing 7 Stance
Warrior Stance
Here are two very achievable exercises‘ Switched Stance’ &‘ Sail 360’. Individually they will develop your skills base and link into other areas of the sport – do them. Bolt them together and you’ ll learn how to master duck gybes and more! We teach these to beginners, so any level can do them!
Switched Stance Skills Training
Switched Stance
Touch Points
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Windwise Core Skills & Actions To help remind you of features gone, here’ s some core Windwise skills that are in this feature. We will say if and when to break these guidelines!
Vision: Try to look through turns to where you want to go. To assist Vision, we’ ll indicate which shoulder your chin should be near, on, or touching to ensure you’ re good at looking!
Opposition
Opposition Blasting: Keep a distance between your upperbody / head and the rig with an extended mast arm.
Opposition In Transitions: If you move the rig one way, the body must move the‘ opposite’ way to counterbalance.
Sailing 7 Stance
Majority of the time we look forward over an extended front leg and arm, flexing the rear leg to absorb chop and raise and lower the hips.
In light winds: Straighten the 7 by tightening the torso and extending the body.
In strong winds or dynamic situations: Sink that‘ 7’ down, by heavily flexing the rear leg and dropping the hips low.
Warrior Stance
In the apex of many transitions, the body needs to be dynamic to oppose and counter balance the rig, this requires a very specific action which we call‘ Warrior’ which is all about‘ Looking( often chin on shoulder) and leaning’ over a heavily flexed knee. Our Windwise Warrior is everywhere!
SUMMER SKILLS
TRAINING EXERCISES
Here are two very achievable exercises‘ Switched Stance’ &‘ Sail 360’. Individually they will develop your skills base and link into other areas of the sport – do them. Bolt them together and you’ ll learn how to master duck gybes and more! We teach these to beginners, so any level can do them!
Switched Stance Skills Training
This one‘ is’ how it sounds. The hands remain in a regular sailing position on the boom as both feet‘ switch round’, creating virtually a 180 ° twist at the hips. If you can stand on a board, you’ re ready to switch!
Why you might ask? Well, it improves general board / rig handling and links into non-planing / planing early gybe foot changes and short board survival gybes. You’ ll also see it in duck gybe exits, push tacks, duck tacks and, albeit momentarily, helicopter tacks and all Pro freestyle.
Switched Stance
Vision / Sailing Line: Look forward, adopt a wide foot spread and for your initial attempts sail slightly upwind of a beam reach.
Opposition: The mast needs to be upright, with the boom slightly sheeted out.
Hold the mast still and forward as you switch the feet round as quickly as possible. Stepping forward with the back foot first is usually easier. With the feet switched, really twist at the hips, and force the front hip forward, all the time keeping the rig upright and sheeted out. Flex at the knees and‘ try’ turning the hips so that the harness hook points into wind.
Most people get‘ switched’ within only five attempts, so let’ s see where it links into skills training and moves. Once you have become comfortable sailing Switch Stance you can use it to enhance your gybes, learn to duck gybe and if you’ re into really punchy freestyle, do it in the straps!
Touch Points
Clew to hand, talk into that microphone! You’ ll see that in many situations, we pull the clew hand in very close to the head to gain control of the rig.
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WIND SURFING