X-OldHeader: From Eyes4Hire@aol.com-DeleteThis.com Mon Sep 10 11:07:11 2001 Return-Path: <Eyes4Hire@aol.com-DeleteThis.com> Received: from opus.labs.agilent.com (root@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com [130.29.244.179]) by jr.labs.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 AgilentLabs Workstation) with ESMTP id LAA07344 for <wind_talk_ls@jr.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:07:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Eyes4Hire@aol.com-DeleteThis.com Received: from msgbas1.sgp.agilent.com (msgbas1.sgp.agilent.com [141.183.101.235]) by opus.labs.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 AgilentLabs Workstation) with ESMTP id LAA24016 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:07:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imo-r01.mx.aol.com (imo-r01.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.97]) by msgbas1.sgp.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4847C1FC for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 02:07:08 +0800 (SGP) Received: from Eyes4Hire@aol.com-DeleteThis.com by imo-r01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.7.) id v.f4.f12e9a9 (3972) for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 14:07:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <f4.f12e9a9.28ce5b44@aol.com-DeleteThis.com> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 14:07:00 EDT Subject: Re: What is a good board to learn to jibe on? To: wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 40
In a message dated 9/10/2001 10:57:54 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
lorinjohn@att.net-DeleteThis.com writes:
> with a more forgiving board. Specifically, I tend to
> lose my balance during/after I flip the sail. I was
> advised that a wider short board may help
> significantly.
I think that should be a great board to learn on... I think it may not be the
board just as it wasn't my crappy tennis raquet that was scrweing up my
tennis game. Loss of balance is usually associated with a loss of speed. If
you come in with speed and lean in and then lose the speed you will have a
tough recovery. At this stage, I'd focus on getting very low and keeping the
front hand way forward to keep the speed. Imagine trying to squat down so you
are almost sitting on your heels or so that you can look under the boom...
just don't forget to get the front heel up off the deck. As you get the knee
bend programmed start to focus on keeping the front hand forward and keeping
weight on the rig and the universal so that you are not sinking the tail.
Speed is your freind and that board should do it as well as any 100 liter
board if you've got some 5.0-6.0 planing conditions.
Peter
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