aeroegnr said..Sandman1221 said..aeroegnr said..Sandman1221 said..aeroegnr said..Sandman1221 said..
What is interesting, is Andy Brandt told me my forearm was getting sore because I was using my front am too much to hold boom when foiling. He wanted me to move harness lines forward to increase upwind angle and so they effectively became my front arm support-wise, takes some getting used to. Had a good session yesterday with the lines forward, but forearm was sore going into session so took some ibuprofen, afterwards felt just a little soreness in right forearm/elbow so iced it for 20 min. and then felt fine, and today my forearm/elbow is not sore at all even after using a screwdriver! Normally a screwdriver will set it off.
Can you shlogg hands-off the sail and in harness? I've been able to get my lines more balanced recently. Also, been able to commit more into the harness on the fin or foil. I used to cramp up my forearms all the time after a session, and I think it was because they were unbalanced and I wasn't fully weighting the harness.
Now it's mostly soreness if I have a very pump heavy session.
With the short forward lines I now unhook before coming down, and shlogg unhooked. Andy also got me using smaller sails, so was on a 5.8 yesterday in 8-11 with 10-11 knot gusts, normally would of been on 8.0 or 7.2. So shlogging with 5.8 takes less effort than 8.0, but need couple of pumps of 5.8 sail to get up every time, though that did not make my left arm sore, or make my right arm more sore than it was going into session.
With the 8.0 or 7.2 I would pump the foil, not the sail, to get up and thought that was good because my arm was already sore, and thought pumping sail would make it more sore, but as noted above holding boom with front arm was what was making arm sore.
Once up, hooked in and leaned out, using rear hand to sheet in as needed to maintain upwind angle and speed.
I mean are the harness lines balanced? I have been getting mine so that I can just hook in and sail a bit hands-off.
If I don't do that it makes sailing and foiling much much more strenuous.
No, lines are not balanced, they are forward so take the place of front arm, and then I do have to use rear arm to sheet in to adjust speed. When I had them balanced, I got a sore arm, from using front arm too much to adjust sail. Feels very different with lines forward.
Every time I've had mine unbalanced it was Not Fun. I haven't had a problem going upwind with them balanced, or downwind for that matter. Something doesn't seem right here.
But going upwind with them balanced requires front arm pulling on boom, in my experience. But with them forward it is like front arm is constantly pulling on boom, and that allows for very high upwind angles, when combined with the rear arm sheeting in. And since I am working on my foiling gybe, need to get upwind every run. And the effort required by rear arm with lines forward, is less than effort required by front arm when lines are balanced, when heading upwind.
Using rear arm to sheet in, you are grabbing boom far away from center of sail pressure, but using front arm to grab boom you are closer to center of sail pressure so takes more effort to do less.
Remember Andy's Sail Chi lecture?
