Recipe.
Ingredients,
dead flat water,
wide board,
short fin.

Enter gybe, with a smoothly increasing pressure on the rail, when the fin starts to leave the water, and the tail starts to slide, hold the pressure there. You're now getting most of the centrifugal resistance from the rail.
This increases rate of turn dramatically and is loads of fun!!!!
If you get tooo enthusiastic though, fin and rail will loose their grip, and the board disappears from under you!

Possibly other people have been doing this for ages, but my team have only just discovered it, since using delta style fins to get into smooth weedy water.
Does this type of gybe have a name?

Talked to strop in the rain while we waited for wind that didn't come. And I agree with him, it feels like accelerating around a gravel corner in a rear wheel drive car.

Mineral, No what is amazing is there was a guy down here yesterday who was visiting from up on the Pinnaroo patch who had managed thus far avoiding being shanghaied into the Pinners mob. Your reputation is under threat here Mineral - you had better sort this guy out before the word gets out that you are getting soft.

This is a pic of Stroppo on a Delta ( taken by Snides last summer) and you can see the Delta is only just hanging on! I think it's only a 18cm fin from memory. A little more back foot at this point gets the power slide happening. I think it a product of the shortness of the fins (plus all the stuff Decrep said) that you can get it to work - my guess is the freestylers probably do it all the time. I am still concentrating too much on getting my gybe around to really pay attention to the finer details on what is happening, other than its good fun??

Trousers said..

fangman said.. other than its good fun??

There's no finer reason in my book!

That board don't look any wider than my Tabou, so next northerly (goes pretty flat where i sail) I might try and under-fin it and see if I too can pull a Stroppo...

Not sure about that front arm though, is that part of the technique!?

Methinks only Stroppo can pull a Stroppo

azymuth said..
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Methinks only Stroppo can pull a Stroppo

Well nobody could disagree with that!!!
But it's not that hard to do a rail slide, with a short delta style fin and a wide-ish board.
The hardest part is not pushing it too far!

He may be preparing to flip the rig?

I was preparing to spay Snides but not intending to wet his camera sorry Snides and your right Mike on the track the board did get loose for a very short time as i was finding the pressure point of the fin that's a common thing to do whether your on the fin in a straight line or wave sailing or gybing!

R!!!!!!!!!

fangman said..

stroppo said..
I was preparing to spay Snides ....

Now thats a Loreena Bobbit type typo!!

being a vet the possibility of a typo didn't occur to me!

Superb photo Snides!