70 COACHING WINDWISE TECHNIQUE
HOW TO FLAT WATER WAVE RIDE
– FOR ALL LEVELS!
Start off with a basic version on a high volume Core Principles
Vision: look and lean (in ‘Warrior’) where you want to go!
board or WindSUP in non-planing conditions. Opposition:
lever the rig in pretty much totally the opposite
direction.
Look how, throughout these sequences, the
Warrior: look and lean over a heavily flexed knee.
boards are turned in very similar ways using Touch points: hands well forward upwind, wide spread, clew
hand close to head downwind.
our core principles, looking and leaning in
Warrior upwind – vision – opposition and touch points
Warrior stance (flexed knee), moving the
Vision: looking upwind, chin near or even on front shoulder.
Warrior: look and lean over a heavily flexed knee.
‘touch points’ up and down the boom, to apply Opposition:
rig is leant back to counter balance
the correct forces and pressure.
Upwind touch points:
the hands are well forward (sometimes the front hand
literally touching the boom clamp), the rig is raked right
back, often ‘touching’ the rear, knee, shin or ankle.
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