Hi Jp, apart from getting a bigger rig I plan to spend some serious time getting skills up to speed and fitness. In particluar gybing, waterstarting, pumping onto the plane in marginal conditions (Gee, what else is there left) and build the miles per session - aiming to start the L2L next year.

- Work less, windsurf more.
- Get some bigger, freerace/ride rig for more planing time.
- Land 8/10 gybes and tacks.
- Hit the surf for the first time.

Buy new gear . . .

do more planning gybes

learn to do a planning tack

Do a forward loop.

have a epic holiday in gero!

Buy light wind gear so I dont have to sit at home like I have the last couple of weeks

Do at least 30 knots

Decent gybes and tacks

Become proficient in waterstarting

Get some air but not as part of a catapult

OceanBlue64 said...

Buy light wind gear so I dont have to sit at home like I have the last couple of weeks

Do at least 30 knots

Decent gybes and tacks

Become proficient in waterstarting

Get some air but not as part of a catapult

Don't you own a Go?

Yeah if the wind hits 12 knots in Sydney I will be going for 30.

Any tack you don't fall in on is decent plus you don't lose any ground. In regards to gybes, just remember the more speed you bring into the gybe the more you will bring out: ie, if you are planing at 10 knots you won't be planing if put the brakes on early on.

Don't get proficient at waterstarting. Don't fall in coz it means you stuffed something up. The bestest windsurfers in the world have no idea how to waterstart coz they never fall in.

Getting air is simple. Hit a ramp flat out. Stick the nose downwind of the tail if you land nose first. otherwise land tail first.

snides8 said...

run over elmo!!




only kiddin mate

What can I say

If you sail behind me with the Furken camera again, there is a definite chance of achieving your goal.

As with last time, it doesn't have to be switched on


What is it?

Why do people want to:

• Run me over
• Sail faster than me
• Take out new gear so as I can destroy it
• Laugh at my pain

Why are people so unkind?

Mobydisc said...

Don't you own a Go?

Yeah I do but my biggest sail is only a 6.5. I want something in the region of an 8 for days around the 10 knot mark

Any tack you don't fall in on is decent plus you don't lose any ground. In regards to gybes, just remember the more speed you bring into the gybe the more you will bring out: ie, if you are planing at 10 knots you won't be planing if put the brakes on early on.

On the GO its relatively easy to tack without falling in. Its on the Sonic that I want to really get good on.

Don't get proficient at waterstarting. Don't fall in coz it means you stuffed something up. The bestest windsurfers in the world have no idea how to waterstart coz they never fall in.

I think this is more for my own peace of mind as I do a lot of sailing on my own I want to be sure that when I am out on the smaller board I will be able to get going no matter what the conditions are.

Getting air is simple. Hit a ramp flat out. Stick the nose downwind of the tail if you land nose first. otherwise land tail first.

I have to learn how to make the board do what I want it to, when I want it to lol. At the moment its generally more a case of hook in and hang on and try to go as fast and hard as I can. I think once I get over the adrenalin rush I get every time I get planing, I will concentrate more on trying new things.

elmo said...

snides8 said...

run over elmo!!




only kiddin mate

What can I say

If you sail behind me with the Furken camera again, there is a definite chance of achieving your goal.

As with last time, it doesn't have to be switched on


What is it?

Why do people want to:

• Run me over
• Sail faster than me
• Take out new gear so as I can destroy it
• Laugh at my pain

Why are people so unkind?

apart from the fact i couldnt catch you! there would be no chance of me running over you while you are on a sailboard i have too much respect for ya.
start using a kite and i will be forced to line you up on a port and starboard and run you down [}:)]....

Why are people so unkind

Next year, I plan to WINDSURF and NOT WORK for a WHOLE YEAR!!!!!!!!!

Everything else will follow...carve gybes, ducks, jumping etc...yeah baby!

As for THIS year, in living Singapore with light wind it's all about: learning heli-tacks, upwind 360s, and any other light wind stuff I can think of; getting much better at tacks and gybes, catching the odd storm so I can get into the footstraps and plane for at least 30 seconds a week (a lofty goal, I know, with only an 8.5 m sail)...work work work and save money...

...and ROB MORE BANKS!!!! Currently recruiting accomplices...interested applicants post resumes (with photo) on the forum plz

thats exackery what my wife said

Move back to Adelaide so I can use a sail smaller than 6m

carve gybe more than 50% of the time

try forwards

land some backs

I'm going to stop wasting time on seabreeze and spend more time on the water...

jp747 said...

hoorayeven if the season's over and the monsoon has freakishly come very fast we sailed the southwesterlies today with a little drizzle and mama mia i've done what i planned for next season's noreaster's...sailing straight for 2 and a half hours none stop with mates in an opposite side of the islandit's a startyessssss

Hi jp, a quirky little bit of English here. Did you sail straight for 2 and a half hours (ie/ go in a straight line for 2 and a half hours without turning or stopping), or sail for 2 and a half hours straight (ie/ non stop, but turning every now and then)?
Sorry, look at me, the English Grammatical Police. Think I'll open a bottle of red.