X-OldHeader: From allen.zimmermann@gte.net-DeleteThis.com Mon Sep 10 11:27:57 2001 Return-Path: <allen.zimmermann@gte.net-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 LAA08304 for <wind_talk_ls@jr.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:27:56 -0700 (PDT) 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 LAA25370 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:27:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp005pub.verizon.net (smtp005pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.184]) by msgbas1.sgp.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24A1F1DA for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 02:27:49 +0800 (SGP) Received: from computer (1Cust218.tnt2.sjc4.da.uu.net [63.42.63.218]) by smtp005pub.verizon.net with SMTP for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>; id f8AIRgW26973 Mon, 10 Sep 2001 13:27:45 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <001101c13a25$e566b900$da3f2a3f@computer> From: "Allen H Zimmermann" <allen.zimmermann@gte.net-DeleteThis.com> To: <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com> References: <f4.f12e9a9.28ce5b44@aol.com-DeleteThis.com> Subject: Re: What is a good board to learn to jibe on? Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:24:48 -0700 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400
Just an add on: Make sure you sheet in, BEND YOUR KNEES and complete the
jibe before flipping the sail. You can sail away from the jibe clew first
and flip the sail at your leisure. Remember, the most important thing is
jibing the board all the way (180 degrees). The sail and rig are secondary.
With a big floaty board such as yours, speed isn't a huge issue. Make sure
you are going the other way (jibing) and everything will fall in place.
Once you get your jibes wired, you will be able to do them on any board, any
time. Believe it or not, they are easy.
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Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: What is a good board to learn to jibe on?
>
> 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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