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- From: andrewl@cs.anu.edu.au (Andrew Longhorn (Vac Scholar))
- Newsgroups: rec.windsurfing
- Subject: Re: Raceing jibes?
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 21:50:11 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department, ANU, Australia
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- I don't mean to "pick" at the terminology but aren't these
- called "drop-sail gybes"?
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- Your rig should be totally light in the middle of the gybe so theoretically
- you should be able to do anything with it, and what better way to reduce
- the wind resistance than simply laying it down near the water.
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- Just learn them by keeping your weight forward (towards the nose of the board)
- and progressively drop the sail further every time you gybe. (start of just leaning
- with the sail a little as you gybe).
-
- On a more interesting note:
- How many here can pull off a monkey gybe?
-
- (the one where you run around the front of the board).
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- Andrew Longhorn
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- andrewl@cs.anu.edu.au
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