How do you prevent 'da bumps' during a carve gybe ?.

Sometimes, I carve around no problems with a bit of bounce. Other times, same chop, same wind, I get into some serious 'whoopty-doos' bouncing (getting air time) and end up either throwing the board and rig away or loosing balance and straightening up (due to not being able to carve)

I've been watching the Peter Hart gybe clinic over and over. He touches on it by saying to stay close to the wind and let the rig pull you through the gybe while keeping the rig away from you and bend the knees. I do all that, but has me stuffed.

J

Basically what Russell said :-)

When I get bounced around in a gybe I can usually improve things by concentrating on leaning forward, and bending the knees to weigh down on the boom and keep the mast foot pressure up (for all but the sail transition). Also I try to keep the same turning pressure on the back foot all the way through the turn. When I get tired I stop doing all these things and my gybes get crappy (or crappier :-) ). That's what works for me - YMMV.


By the way, the closeness of the chop up at the northern beaches makes it the gold standard for bouncing around in a gybe. If you can gybe in that, you can gybe anywhere :-) Further down south there seems to be troughs in the waves that you can gybe in, and if you time it right you can gybe "downhill" for more speed.

Jay, there are a couple of things, you are going to have a harder time gybing up at semi on a more slalom oriented board than a wave board so depends which board your on. Def go for a bigger wave and use the downward face of it especially if there is a wide trough. Or look for flat sections. They do exist out there and yeah, as you said practice makes perfect. happy to Give you some tips when im down the beach which sould be soon when its windy :)