How to adapt your STANCE to improve your windsurfing!
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2022
- Changing and adapting your stance can transform a struggle/battle of a sail, into a smooth drive of effortless power and control.
“STANCE is how we use our body”
Stance refers to how we position, angle and direct the rig’s forces with our body. We can
recommend some very specific actions to create a range of movement that maximises the
effect of our body in a windsurfing environment.
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Something like "how to change your stance" has soooo many possible coaching points! In this videos I've explored a few of them.
What also follows below here here is really special though.... the FULL breakdown of ALL the coaching points needed to complete the get back on the water for the summer successfully!
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Like changing up and down a gear on a bike, we vary our stance to suit our needs. Stance
is NOT about adopting fixed positions while windsurfing.
Stance predominantly relates to the alignment of head, hips and heels.
How we change this alignment affects the forces that our body creates. You will find that
subtle movements and changing your weight distribution between the hips and heels can
make a massive difference to your ability to control both rig and board.
Standard 7
This stance allows for variations in personal sailing styles and could also be
described as a middle of the range stance. If the wind strength was constant, we could just
cruise about in this standard stance. But windsurfing just isn’t like that. We always need to
adapt to changing winds and different situations by moving our body in quite specific ways.
Even if this is a temporary measure and we switch back into our standard stance, it is vital to
know how to move the body to react effectively, hence developing a stance range
Super 7 = control.
That could be control to accelerate, get into the straps, enter and exit a gybe, even to change direction and crank the board upwind.
??? "Drop & Dig" or "Drop & Push" ???
PUSH/DIG refers to what we do with our feet whilst dropping...
- PUSHING through our toes will flatten the board off...speed the us up..and turn us off the wind.
- DIGGING the heels will change the boards direction upwind, allowing you to control the speed.
Straight 7 = efficiency = "Lock and Lift".
‘Lift and Lock’ those hips, extend body and push through toes.
‘Lift and Lock’ is used when we want make the most of the rigs power. This could be used
to increase speed, accelerating after getting into harness and footstraps, continuing through
lulls and quite often as a lighter wind planing and non-planing stance.
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Filmed on a 107lt Starboard Futura, and a 6.5m Point-7 ACX.
Wind was a changeable bft 3-4 (15-20knots!).
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Filmed in Vassiliki, Greece- join me here for a clinic!
Kit used...
- Sails provided by Point-7; mainly the Spy, ACX and F1e. point-7.com
- Boards are kindly supplied by Starboard. windsurf.star-board.com
- Filmed on a mix of Insta360 Onex2- www.insta360.com/sal/one_x2?i...
- Audio recorded on InstaMic- instamic.io
- Mixture of camera mounts including Fly Mount and Sail Video System
flymount.com/shop/ www.sailvideosystem.com
- Eyewear provided by SunGod www.sungod.co/en-gb/?
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Great to see these back. Hands down the most practical windsurfing advice on UA-cam.
As it gets a bit cooler here in Australia Vassiliki looks very appealing !
Thanks Craig! Vass is a pretty great place if you can make it here!
Great technique to demonstrate, its easy to forget these things or get lazy in the hullabaloo of a session and next thing you know you just aren't going as well or feeling as in control as you should!! Looking forward to the next one!!
Exactly! Thanks as always Kev! 👍
Thanks for making the time to make this videos Cookie!
My pleasure! Glad you like them!
I love the effort you put into these. Really helpful to see you adapt and change positions as well. Also, you've got that twist with your hips opening forward and your front foot and knee pointing forwards. I find myself sometimes being lazy or just sloppy and pointing it more inboard.
The twist you mention is key to staying upwind- think "Vision- head, shoulders, hips & front foot, looking forward to drive forward".
@@Cookiesports Yeah!
Very helpful! Thanks again!
Cheers Joal!
Nice vid! Love your video’s the really help !
Thanks!
Thanks You C. For adding the back camera. Last year you didn’t have it as compare to previous seasons.
We are anxiously waiting for Gybe part 2.
Part two will come soon, need to get some more clips to make it as clear as I want it to be... however there are many other videos that'll reply help your gybes already up. keep an eye out for "flat-water-waver-riding" coming soon too! 🤙
Real helpful. That camera is amazing. Shall practice that when getting out on the water again
I’m loving the new cameras for sure- InstaOneX2! 👍👍
I really love all your instructional videos. I have them all saved for easy access in my library. Could you possibly do a short segment on hope you do your audio/video production. The camera shots are amazing. Dave, Longmont, Colorado. USA
Hi Dave! Thanks for watching! 👍I'm planning a full "tech intro" soon to show exactly what you're asking about!
This was great, really timely for me, and this is going to be a big help in the shifty puffy light air we have around here.
Ahhhh... I'm just finishing a film on "shifty pimply light air/underpowered... stay tuned! 👍
@@Cookiesports Can't wait to see that. Where I live we get a ton of light, inconsistent wind coupled with swells/chop that makes it very frustrating much of the time. I've actually been wing foiling almost exclusively the past year as a result....
Great videos Cookie. Do you reckon you could do one on spin out??
Every time I sail, I spin out on nearly every run at least once… would be great to understand common causes and technique issues that cause it!!
Thanks!
Nice idea, I’ll get on it!
Good to see you back on the water, bringing us quality tutorials again! A question regarding the sheet out to sheet in thing: do you just sheet out by briefly flexing the elbow of the arm closest to the mast? Meaning you don't move the other arm at all? Was kinda hard to see on the video. Mahalo!
That’s all it takes, a slight momentary bend of the front arm to open the sail… allows you to change direction slightly, then straighten it and sheet in again.
While I mention it- doing this by accident is a common reason for accidentally squeezing upwind/loosing power/dropping of the plane!
@@Cookiesports Thanks a bunch!
@@Cookiesports Your advice was grand! I‘m at Lake Garda currently and was trying to adopt your sheet-out-to-sheet-in technique. Works perfectly, makes me plane easier and earlier. Thanks a bunch for your tutorials! Highly appreciated indeed! 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
That’s awesome! Glad it helped! 👍👍👍
Nice 7!!!
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Hey Cookie, another great video!
I could use some help- i tried my new FSW (96L) as a thruster setup with 18 rear and 10 sides (original fins) but just couldn’t get it planing. I also tried it with a bigger middle fin, but nope, that felt even more dragy.
I felt the wind in the rig and from experience I can tell that my older 106L single fin would have been on the plane by then, even with a small fin. (I think im doing fine with my stance, mostly front foot, generous inboard footstraps, drop and push ect, 28“ lines). Had no issues with spinouts or sliding sideways btw.
…any ideas from a pro? In one of your videos you rode a RRD FSW 94ish as a thruster- do u remember the size of that fin setup? Thanks and keep the great and helpful videos coming! Thank you!
Hi AP!
Our new RRD FSW’s at my centre come with 24 centre fins and 10cm side. Can’t comment on your technique without seeing but maybe the fins too small? Even without spinning out.
@@Cookiesports Thank you for getting back so fast. I guess ill have to play around a little more with the fins. Anyways, thanks!
When I go into that low super 7 stance with flexed back leg and extended front leg, I often tend to put too much pressure on the back leg. Any clue how to fix that?
Try standing and holding boom with a friend, both of you each side in mirror positions to one another.
Both drop into a “super-7” position (unhooked- with no sail, just the boom!).
Without changing your stance you should be able to either push through your front toes…. Or dig your back heels.
This is the same in the board… drop & push the front foot, or drop & dig the back foot- same stance, different application of your foot pressure.
Video coming soon on this! 👍
Hi cookie , what equipment and accessories are you using to create this video;
Everything is in the description! 👍
I’m also working on a “how to film and edit windsurfing” that’ll come out soon!
I tested a new lighter AV Pathfinder board yesterday (165L iam 90kg) with bft 4/5 i had some problems... it kept pointing upwind wich was very exhasuting and annoying to correct the whole time.. difficult waterstarts too.. but when it was planing this board flew! Maybe a nice video idea how to correct and overcome such problems? :) Love your video's!
I've got something like that in mind... for now though try this video....
ua-cam.com/video/lcG0FFBGXV0/v-deo.html
Very nice video ! I tried to do this on the water today, but every time I go in the low 7 I have the feeling that I am gonna fall back and pull with my back hand after that I lose all my speed… maybe some tips ? Thank you !!
Make sure you have power when you make the low “super-7” stance.
Keep your front arm extended to keep the power on.
This position is “drop”… next question is do you “drop & push” or “drop & dig”… pushing your front foot, or digging your heels… look for the stiletto stance in my other videos (this is “drop & push”… looks for an upcoming video called “how to get from “ok” to “great””…it’ll show even more about the digging- which it sounds like you’re currently doing! 🙌
@@Cookiesports thankss !!
how do you get these shots? what is your cam setting?
Nice to see windsurfing again!
In the description I've added loads of info on the kit. I'll do a full kit intro video soon! 👍
@@Cookiesports
Great, thanks Cookie I enjoy your content!
Your ride along videos are awesome but sometimes the wide angle view, and all the action do not let me see what is happening like the position and angle of the sail in relation to the board. Which maybe one day you could explain and show on the ground.
Great videos.
I’ve got a mixture of cameras I’ll be playing with through this summer, I’ll make sure you can see everything I’m explaining! 👍👍
im getting the real hang of the harness now. Is it me or do i get more stable when i turn the front hip towards the wind?
100% true! I hope you’ve seen a few of my videos? In many of them I talk about the importance of VISION! This is your head, shoulders, hips, and leading foot all Turing to face forward… or even slightly up wind.
Look where you want to go to maintain your sailing line! 👍
@@Cookiesports I seen many of them. The glued chin was a gamechanger. I was just playing around and finally found a sweet spot, by turning the hip outwards. I still do the footstraps first before harness, but i'm trying (with the help of your video's) to go harness and then footstraps. It feels weird but i'm getting there.
I know it should this way cuz you get the board on the plane much faster.
@@maikelvantures3660 both footstraps/harness first are fine… but into harness first will generally be more efficient and get you going earlier… the footstraps first use the T-Rez stance maybe you’ve seen?! 🤣
@@Cookiesports I'm still learning, but out of the harness first yeah its a little T-rex mode if you trying to get into the footstraps. But i feel i can get my butt lower without harness. And somehow drive the board faster when i am lower. Like the super 7. Or is that just me starting footstraps upwind, getting downwind a little get my butt on the rear and pull the sail. Get the butt outwards and then hook in when plaining.
@@maikelvantures3660 being able to get super low into the super-7 stance is the advantage of staying out of the harness… it’s fine to do this upwind- particularly if you have the power!
If you twist your hips so that they are parallel with the board you’ll go much much faster
Faster, true… but less control for your average windsurfer who this is aimed at.
Rotating your hips to look forward will improve control, stability, and efficiency.
Well it’s something to remember if you find you can’t get enough power to stay upwind.
@@selbalamir Agreed- definitely important to straighten up the line between the front foot-hips-shoulders; rotating the hips and shoulders toward the direction of travel to help you in marginal conditions and stay upwind. 👍