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- From: cbh@windsurf.scd.ucar.edu (Cris Hannu)
- Subject: Re: Raceing jibes?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.150036.18614@ncar.ucar.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:00:36 GMT
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- In article <1h82ijINNbm1@dubhe.anu.edu.au>, andrewl@cs.anu.edu.au (Andrew Longhorn (Vac Scholar)) writes:
- >
- > I don't mean to "pick" at the terminology but aren't these
- > called "drop-sail gybes"?
- >
- I haven't ever heard 'em called that before, just laydown's. There was
- was also an article in Windsurfing Mag. a couple of issues ago (?) called
- the Gods of jibe, w/ Robbie and someone else doing laydown jibes.
-
- .
- .
- .
- > On a more interesting note:
- > How many here can pull off a monkey gybe?
- >
- Yo! That's, one of, my problem(s) with the laydown jibe. The set-up is
- very similar to starting a monkey jibe or a 360 and, my concentration being
- what it is at times, I manage to pull off the always popular blow-jibe - as
- I try to remember just exactly what the heck I'm doing in the middle of this
- turn.
-
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