Light wind here at the moment and for a few more months.
I got out on the water yesterday, onshore conditions, small waves, 4.7 sail and 145L windsup.
My quick tacks are non-existent; it's more like throwing myself in the water at high speed. So I started practising tacking, then clew first, backwind, and without thinking too much, managed to get a few Helitacks in.
I would really like to get to a higher skill level before the wind kicks in and to use my time on the water better.
Does anyone know of a progression chart or website that can help me out with what to do next on the water?
I have a copy of the DVDs and Tricktionary book, so I could slowly go through those and figure it out myself but, kinda lazy and as they say, "why reinvent the wheel"
Also, how to use my time better on the water? Instead of long tacks, then doing a move, going from move to move to move like a choreographed routine. Anyone got some advice on that?
I figure if I keep pushing myself into learning new moves, then the current "hard" moves will become easy. For example, last year, when I started trying to learn the quick-tack and gave up on concentrating on good gybes, gybing suddenly became easy.
Thanks everyone.
Guess I better start making a windsurfing progression chart. I'll get back to you all in a few years. Unless Chatgpt wants to do the whole thing.
Living in a light wind place and hanging out with longboard freestyle sailors when the wind drops we have some fun doing lightwind freestyle (poorly lol). Things to try
Planing tacks, helitacks, upwind 360. learning to sail backwinded
You can also scissor gybe into clew first then either flip the sail 180 or pivot to sail back winded. Longboard freestyle trick. There are also sail throws like chachoo and ankle biters etc.
duck gybes also fun and can be practiced sub planing.
try and sail your board backwards or sitting down
lighter wind wymaroos are good to try, pivot gybes are like forward loops.
rail rides etc.
to be honest sailing around on your shortboards in barely any wind is great practice
Thanks Gestalt.
Good videos with some good moves to practise. I'll add them and your recommendations to the list.
It would be great to have a few buddies to practise with, atm it's just me, my buddies only come out when the wind will get them planning.
I always thought that early LT windsurfing freestyle tricks were so very cool. When I watch videos of them, they seem to be just playing from one move to the next. Not saying I want to go out and buy a big white board, I still have memories of how heavy the boards were.
I've also started going through some of the Peter Hart collection videos.
I'm starting to think, though, that thereare justsome very fundamental moves and all windsurfing moves then progress from those moves.
Just thinking out loud.
Go with the trickionary. It was fun to try and do most non tack moves on a land board too.
@Henners You'll be surprised how light, stable & fast the LT boards are cf the OD. No soft rails unfortunately but a great platform for freestyle 'old skool'.
