duck gybe is good next move to learn. gives you confidence for learning other stuff and improves your normal gybes alot by making you not rely on the boom/sail for balance and forces you to ride the board like a surfboard, plus it makes u sail switch stance for a while if u do them properly
u will probably find that your normal gybes were not as good as you thought they were once you learn to duckgybe as this will make them even bettera
- go into yer gybe like you normally would, halfway through the carve (almost heading downwind) reach all the way back to the clew of the boom with what is currently your old front hand, pull clew across in front of your face (you ducking behind it) and yank the clew towards the outside of the turn (obviously making sure you have let go with the old back hand)
- because you are heading down wind by this stage there is no power in the sail so it is easy to handle. grab the new side of the boom with both hands at the normal sailing position, leave feet in old gybe stance and ride switch stance for a bit while you finish off the carve
- then when you are heading across wind again on new tack, change your feet like a step gybe or go strap for strap!
takes a little practice, but you'll have it sussed within 50 attempts in both directions ;) there's a kind of sweet spot through the turn you will find easiest
if you do it all too early the mast will smack into the water stopping the board dead an u go over the front
if u do it too late you end up with the wind pushing the mast back upright and u left holding the clew while hanging off the back of the board and grinding to a halt, and falling off
cheers
