I'm an above average winger on day 3 of my parawing journey and while I have yet to get a solid day of breeze, I've been going out anyways as I figure every bit of time on the water will help me progress. One area that I'm struggling with is jibing. Coming from winging and having watched a few videos, I successfully fought the urge to keep the kite up high at 12 o'clock through my jibe. Instead, I tried to load the kite down low but what seems to be happening is that I essentially outrun the kite as I'm turning through dead downwind and the kite drops out of the sky as it's apparent wind has gone to zero. I'm left riding on the new tack but the kite is behind me in a heap. Any suggestions or videos you'd recommend? Thanks in advance
(for reference, I'm 72kg riding a shorter DW board, 1500cm2 foil and the Flow Dwing 4.2)
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I'll have to give this a go. Looks like the idea is that by pulling that particular line (trailing edge) that you both power the kite AND rotate it at the same time. Thanks for sharing.
Gneve, Give a 'Heineken' Gybe a go with the Parawing. Practice on land first. Just like with a wing, think:
1: Look underneath the wing (fly the PW up to 12:00)
2: Side arm the wing around like throwing a frisbee side-armed. (PW will swing down and around your downwind side, keeping positive apparent wind on the leading edge).
I've not tried this on the water yet, but I've been trying it on the beach quite a bit and it is really easy to do.
Out running the parawing and loosing line tension is the bane of light wind parawinging.
My solution so far has been tacking, which keeps it well powered. Slowing down as much as possible before you turn downwind and then turning as tight as possible also helps.
I will likely try the heineken type gybe next but this is a common problem, you aren't alone.
On the plus side it is miles easier to gybe when you are towards the upper end of your parawings wind range.
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Gneve, Give a 'Heineken' Gybe a go with the Parawing. Practice on land first. Just like with a wing, think:
1: Look underneath the wing (fly the PW up to 12:00)
2: Side arm the wing around like throwing a frisbee side-armed. (PW will swing down and around your downwind side, keeping positive apparent wind on the leading edge).
I've not tried this on the water yet, but I've been trying it on the beach quite a bit and it is really easy to do.
They aren't always graceful but I do enjoy a good Heineken jibe on the wing. I think the idea of keeping the apparent up makes a ton of sense. I assume you have an overhand grip on the bar going into the maneuver?
Select to expand quoteMeonAsh said..
Out running the parawing and loosing line tension is the bane of light wind parawinging.
My solution so far has been tacking, which keeps it well powered. Slowing down as much as possible before you turn downwind and then turning as tight as possible also helps.
I will likely try the heineken type gybe next but this is a common problem, you aren't alone.
On the plus side it is miles easier to gybe when you are towards the upper end of your parawings wind range.
I hadn't thought to slow down but it makes sense. I'll have to fight the habit from winging where I try to go into tacks and jibes with as much speed as possible.
Had the Flow 4.2, struggled with jibes, that thing had a mind of its own especially going from heelside to toeside, maybe 50% or less success rate. Changed to the BRM Maliko, much better behaved, 90%+ gybes both ways. It just seems to follow you through the turn, maybe the lighter canopy cloth helps.
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Had the Flow 4.2, struggled with jibes, that thing had a mind of its own especially going from heelside to toeside, maybe 50% or less success rate. Changed to the BRM Maliko, much better behaved, 90%+ gybes both ways. It just seems to follow you through the turn, maybe the lighter canopy cloth helps.
Had both BRM and Flow. BRM has more backline tension so it does go downwind with more control. With the Flow you just need to keep a bit of rear line tension or just grab the back line. The trade off is I find the Flow better to get on foil and going upwind. Both have their good points.
Managed to get out for a quick session yesterday and the recommendation to pull the back lines worked well. Still a long ways to go but feeling a bit more confident.
