If you imagine you have stalled and the board is pointing 45 degrees downwind, tha sail would flag totally out of your reach. Thats why you need to exit with speed, so the wind blows the sail back to you.
That's also why a lot of people screw the board up into the wind - to get the boom to swing round to them.
Its best to practice in strong winds and flat water to prove that speed works, then comes the difficult bit of adapting to doing it in everyday conditions.
So you mean the sooner you get going on a reach again after the flip the closer the rig will be for you to grab..so carve up after the flip..?
So you mean the sooner you get going on a reach again after the flip the closer the rig will be for you to grab..so carve up after the flip..?
Getting onto a broad reach will slow you down.
I assume you mean a reach.. a broad reach is more downwind than a reach ( at least in sailing terms..?) I thought what was said above meant that the broad reach exit meant the sail was flying away from you so it wasn't accessable..? ( although yanking the mast back to catch it would fix that would'nt it?
Cripes I'm in overwhelm.. I'll just go out & do them & have a postmortem after 
Notwithstanding some of the new school freestyle moves the humble jibe is got to be one of the most complex / difficult windsurfing manouvers.
So many actions that need to be performed in the space of a few seconds and a big range of variables thrown in with different wind / water conditions.
Jibing is over rated. I excel at the splash and dash version!
Ian, to be fair pulling of jibes at Red is a mission in itself all that confused chop, bull sharks, turtles and those pesky kiters to think about ans those bloody reefs that keep stealing my expensive fins!!!!!! . Those northen shandy drinking flatwater boys have it easy
Then the next one brings me back to reality..
More forward on the board and pulling the sail across hard to windward during the rig flip. These loops are also help by the fact we were gybing in 1.5-2m swell today. Surfing the board gives you a bit more time to get sorted.
I'm interested in the 16G turn down the bottom 
(or perhaps a stack and then waterstsrt going back the other way huh
I was taught (years ago) to gybe the rig first, (power it up fast just after the flip) and sail away (planing fast) with your feet unchanged from the previous tack. Once planing out of the gybe then move the feet into the new position. So gybe the rig first then feet second. Once you get good at this then the two separate moves become more like one move as they follow quickly at pace.
Of course you must enter the gybe fast travelling downwind. The speed of the board allows the aparent wind to lighten the rig allowing a fast flip, and by the time the true wind starts to build pressure back in the sail, you have already flipped the rig and are sailing out with your feet still back to front. Sheet in hard to keep the rig powered and the board planing before starting to move the feet.
Now days the 'lay down' is gybe is prevalent, (why? Because of the use of big fully cambered race sails?) but it seems to me that the rig gets flipped far to late and planing out is much harder or not a priority.
Anyway, the above is probably a bad gybe technique but it works for me on short boards. (I havn't managed a planing gybe on Formula yet).
Doing technical drawing with a GPS and Google Earth - It's a new art form.
So you mean the sooner you get going on a reach again after the flip the closer the rig will be for you to grab..so carve up after the flip..?
ikw777 if you make the exits on the gybes more like the entries you will probably stay on the plane.
When learning its easier to gybe from a broad reach to a broad reach as then your only carving 90 degress or so, so you lose less speed and the apparent wind will help flip your sail over.
If you have a fast constant curve carve then the sail will want to flip itself, providing your holding it right
I've spent the last 2 days in strong wind on flat water on new slalom gear, thinking about this thread, and working on my gybes.
I found the "keep the front arm straight" thing to be enormously useful. It really kept me leaning forward, which maintains speed through the carve, which leads to speed on the exit. Sheeting in at the same time kept the nose down and a nice, fierce feeling carve resulted.
I also found that in my best gybes, with maximum exit speed, I switched feet half way through, but kept carving the board, going form a toe-side turn, into a heel-side turn as I flipped the rig, and pulled the power straight on. I think that may be something that gets missed.
Lots of commitment required, but rewarded by a fast exit, so no pullover the front as the power gets yanked on immediately.
After my pathetic attempts at gybing yesterday I feel like giving the sport away & crawling under a rock..
..I think I'm going to have to learn how to step gybe the small board as well as if I'm not really powered up I need my feet in the right spot as I exit.
Grr more falls..at least with all the practise my waterstarts are pretty good [}:)]
Where was everyone..c25 kt SSe at Valentine , nice day , Saturday & only me & 1 other out..?
