evlPanda said..FlickySpinny said..Zed said..
very good. Sort of how I learned - doing flat water forwards, much easier psychologically than doing one off a wave.
Same here. Got really hacked off trying to find the right ramp so decided flat was the way forward. Once I'd made that move it took 20 mins to land one.
And a lot of people say that after you've landed a few they seem easier than gybes.
I think the missing piece for me is leaning back somewhat and bringing my feet up, to get the board rotating too. Perhaps I've spent too much time practicing just rotating the sail. I can actually go all the way around with just the sail... er, not quite the same.
If I land a few I'm getting a tattoo.
Psychologically it's hard, but technically it's pretty easy, easier than a gybe - all I really do is setup for the jump, slide my hand down the boom & pull and that's it! If you're struggling, try breaking the move down, it's a bit hard to describe, but I started by going into a gybe then sort of doing a chop hop and rather than landing just falling backwards pulling the rig on top of me so I landed in the water, kinda like what he does in the video. So in the end because you've started to bear off in the gybe it ends up like a half rotation and you go from there. You do a little bit of a rotation and realise it's not so bad.
