For the first time my beloved took some photos of me windsurfing yesterday. I was shocked on seeing them how bad my technique looked. I thought I was leaning into the turns, but it looks like I'm actually leaning backwards. Do I need more weight on front arm and leg to keep the board flat? I actually made it around 90% of the corners yesterday, I could post the shots immediately after these ones which show me sailing away from these gybes, and came out of a few of them fully planing, (flip that rig way earlier than what you think!), but it's weird to actually see yourself in action. A great learning tool if you can get someone to take some shots for you. Then compare them to magazine shots, or some of the ones on seabreeze, to realise what you need to do.
BTW, water like a bath, shorts, rashie and sunhat, fully powered on 6.5 with smooth water, 
Lovely set of Lilly legs on ya
Your pulling the piss surely re able to gybe OK. Any gybe you don't get dunked is a good gybe
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If you plane out, then you can't be too far off.
I've found the Alpha division using a GPS to really help my gybes as well. Mainly by showing me that I've still got a long way to go 
Thanks Nebbs - err, found the camera scary enough, will leave gps alone for a while
thats a great looking spot you got there easty, looking forward to the noreasters on the weekend
If you think a camera never lies then wait until you try video. Your right about fwd pressure and if you enter the gybe 30Deg off the wind and exit the same ( so you turn 120 Deg instead of 180 ) more speed can be carried through out.
Where's the icebergs?
Hey Easty ,nice pics. If you don't like the look of them, then stay away from the camcorder, that really shows all the things you are doing wrong. My main problem was hanging on to the rig too long, even my wife ( who doesn't windsurf but has watched Peter hart when in the room with me) can be heard behind the camera saying let the back hand go you and flick the rig you tosser.
Jokes aside, getting someone to video you is the second best thing you can do for your gybes (the best thing is practice!). The trouble most people have is finding a willing camera operator!
Comparing your video to one of the proper ones (Peter Hart, Jem Hall, etc) will short cut the learning time by a huge amount. Don't be afraid to congratulate yourself on the things you are doing right, as well as finding holes in your technique.
Just do it!
Easty i think your boom is a little high.If you drop it just a little you will be able to put more downward pressure on the boom giving you a more controlable turn.
If you stay on your toes and push down on the boom this eleminates the leaning back habit ,keeps the nose down and initiates the rail.Think of it as riding a motorbike around a bend.
cheers
Easty, you need to lean forward a hell of a lot more, weight on front foot, straighten your front arm, everything else looks pretty good.
no worries Easty, i learnt to lean forward by doing one handed gybes, a tip i got from the old freesail mag, you have to bend forward and down to drag your back hand through the water half way through the turn, worked a treat and learnt a new trick at the same time.
. Lagoon, ocean beach, pointbreak surfing, top salmon and flattie fishing, love to live there, have to settle for 25min drive. (but 5 mins from work)
. Lagoon, ocean beach, pointbreak surfing, top salmon and flattie fishing, love to live there, have to settle for 25min drive. (but 5 mins from work)
thanks easty thats another problem solved only 100 to go , ill have to go out today and practice,practice , wind starting to pickup im outer here cheers bazz
