..still not getting that one! & tipping it into the turn..I've got to lift some handweights and build my arms up as I must have been doing it right last sail with my 5.8m ( biggish sail for me) and strained my arm muscles.
and I'm not sure how its going to go sailing tomorrow but hopefully it will blow so I can use a 5 or 4m 
which won't need as much effort to over sheet.
Hear what you are saying and agree to being practical. But it does help me to understand the mechanics......conscious incompetence > Conscious competence > Unconscious competence as they say :/
The simple point from Cribbs about putting my hand right back on the boom in a gybe gave me more progress in one session than fluffing around for months.... I worked out how to make a sharp slam gybe with it right back there
Yep, start again.
"I think Cribby means that if you oversheet you offer less sail/edge of the sail to the wind going dead downwind . This means it doesn't catch much wind making it weightless and easy to flip."
Sorry, not so. Think of doubling your speed as you go deeper downwind, enter the weightless zone.
That makes sense - pushing sail back around as the board is turned cross wind.
I won't be doing the "look no hands mum" style for a little while I think. Love to watch it though, very impressive.
Every now and then Cribbs does them where you see his hands have barely touched the rig as it turns and then does the missing link on the way back out..... all looks so effortless....
Lol agree on the pain front, injuries take long to heal as you get older, give me relaxing Tai Chi over Kyokushin any day.
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Cribbie is the man for tuning up for better performance, but I like the style of Peter Hart as a teacher of basics.
Lo andbehold, here he is in the latest 'Windsurf" mag as a snow instructor with DVDs and all.
