An interesting question popped up on FB, that shouldn't be too hard to answer, with a close estimate.
Average number of times per session (or day),,,, times ave. # days/per year,,,, times # of years w'surfing, equals.......
How many jibes have you done in your lifetime so far?
I can't believe my answer, but I have to, yikes! I'm old and beat up.
I'll post that later.
How many attempted gybes, or how many successful gybes. Afraid to say the two numbers would be quite different in my case. 
Select to expand quoteHarrow said..
How many attempted gybes, or how many successful gybes. Afraid to say the two numbers would be quite different in my case.
I'd say both, why not, it's the effort that counts with your body. Also easier to figure that way.
I just know that I have exceeded the average number of gybes attempted before mastering them. I still haven't mastered them.
I have trouble with anything that requires quick dynamic movement - and that pretty much sums up gybing.
Slow gybes I do reasonably well but as soon as speed is involved it all happens too fast for me to process.
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>>>t shouldn't be too hard to answer, with a close estimate. <<<<<<
You've got to be kidding!!! I've been windsurfing since the late 80s, but didn't make many gybes back then.
Since I joined the GTC in 2007 I've accumulated 46,779km. Say runs are an average of 1km, (no idea how close this is), That's the same number of gybes in 11.5 years, so in 30 odd years, maybe multiply that by 2.5 or 3, gives 117,000 to 140,000. But that could be out by a factor of anything you can think of.
The 10,000 hour rule-first proposed by a Swedish psychologist and later made famous in Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers-states that exceptional expertise requires at least 10,000 hours of practice.
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The 10,000 hour rule-first proposed by a Swedish psychologist and later made famous in Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers-states that exceptional expertise requires at least 10,000 hours of practice.
So in the ideal windy watery world where you could practice for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening 7 days a week it's going to take 14 years to be an expert.
Does anyone claimed to have mastered the gybe to their own satisfaction?
All averages except the number of years.
40 gybes per day (completed or attempted) fairly conservative #
80 days per year
3200
x 35 years
112,000 ! That explains a lot about being worn out,,,,,,, but still counting.
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Does anyone claimed to have mastered the gybe to their own satisfaction?
If it's dead flat and I'm powered up on port tack, every once in a while I achieve complete satisfaction, I have a 26kt alpha to prove it.
But that was only once in 11.5 years of trying.
Any other conditions my gybes vary from absolute rubbish to almost OK, (phew, made that one!)
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So in the ideal windy watery world where you could practice for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening 7 days a week it's going to take 14 years to be an expert.
Does anyone claimed to have mastered the gybe to their own satisfaction?
I just finished off my 14th year.
38 years of windsurfing *40 sessions a year * 20 corners per session equals 30400 corners....and the last couple of thousand haven't been to bad. Though really I have no idea how many sessions per year or how many corners per sesh.
I ran out of fingers and toes to keep count many years ago. Foiling though, im still on the first hand.
Select to expand quoteAgrid said..
The 10,000 hour rule-first proposed by a Swedish psychologist and later made famous in Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers-states that exceptional expertise requires at least 10,000 hours of practice.
Mmm.. It musn't work..I'm sure I've done that many hours but I haven't mastered the gybe in all situations yet..
