How many attempted gybes, or how many successful gybes. Afraid to say the two numbers would be quite different in my case.

Harrow said..
How many attempted gybes, or how many successful gybes. Afraid to say the two numbers would be quite different in my case.

I'd say both, why not, it's the effort that counts with your body. Also easier to figure that way.

Mastbender said..
>>>t shouldn't be too hard to answer, with a close estimate. <<<<<<

You've got to be kidding!!! I've been windsurfing since the late 80s, but didn't make many gybes back then.
Since I joined the GTC in 2007 I've accumulated 46,779km. Say runs are an average of 1km, (no idea how close this is), That's the same number of gybes in 11.5 years, so in 30 odd years, maybe multiply that by 2.5 or 3, gives 117,000 to 140,000. But that could be out by a factor of anything you can think of.

Agrid said..
The 10,000 hour rule-first proposed by a Swedish psychologist and later made famous in Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers-states that exceptional expertise requires at least 10,000 hours of practice.

So in the ideal windy watery world where you could practice for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening 7 days a week it's going to take 14 years to be an expert.

Does anyone claimed to have mastered the gybe to their own satisfaction?

I still "Woo hoo" when I dry gybe, planing exit or not

So in the ideal windy watery world where you could practice for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening 7 days a week it's going to take 14 years to be an expert.

Does anyone claimed to have mastered the gybe to their own satisfaction?

I just finished off my 14th year.

I ran out of fingers and toes to keep count many years ago. Foiling though, im still on the first hand.