Kitekahunas - Learn Wave Kitesurfing: Lesson 11

How to Jibe: Advanced jibe

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What you will learn in this lesson "Advanced Jibe"

- How to perform your jybes in the most controlled and elegant manner, with the most effective technique "suspending" with advanced kite control.
- How to down-loop your kite to fly it over into the other side of the wind window, to add even more control and elegance to the jibe maneuver.
- How to get it right fast and how to look stylish.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS LESSON

To perform your gybes in the most controlled and elegant manner, you will need to suspend your body for a brief moment using the power of the kite, eliminating most of your body weight, while you change your feet on the board. For this maneuver you need advanced kite control.

Down-loop your kite to fly it over into the other side of the wind window, to aAdd even more control and elegance to the gybe maneuver

Placing your new front foot quickly at exactly the right position on your board is crucial for the success of this maneuver.

Most advanced riders, however, do not gybe like this. They use a more advanced technique. All these advanced techniques require sophisticated kite control, and if you are an experienced kitesurfer with excellent kite control, we recommend that you go with the advanced gybe technique as explained in this lesson 11.

The basic principle of an advanced gybe is that you suspend yourself from your kite. This not only helps you to balance, but also helps you to take the weight off your feet, and when you step on your board during the maneuver, you will be light-footed and your board will not wobble, tilt or flip over.

Ideally, during the advanced gybe, you must have just enough remaining weight to keep your feet in contact with your board, so that you still have some control of your board, without actually stepping on it.

Before we will give you a detailed step-by-step instruction how to perform the maneuver, here is an overview first:

It is best that you start practicing the advanced gybe while riding strapless. You may initiate the maneuver by flying the kite slightly higher in the wind window and by bringing your feet closer together. Then you fly the kite into the other side of the wind window, while keeping the kite low, and carve the board downwind into the turn. When the board points into the new direction, fly your kite up and pull the bar, to use the lift of your kite to neutralize the weight of your body. This is the time when you can be light-footed and quickly change your feet.
Then fly your kite down and ride into the new direction.

This, in short, is the advanced gybe maneuver.

Let’s have a look at everything in more detail.
Before the maneuver, you ride on your desired course, which is often upwind.

1st step. You may fly your kite slightly upwards. With this you will not only slow down, but your kite will pull you up and give you additional balance and stability on your board. Fly it between 10 and 11 o-clock, or 1 and 2 o-clock, depending on which way you are going. Push out the bar, at least half way to the upper stopper. In a moment you will need some power from your kite. This is why you push your bar up at this stage.

Step 2. In a few seconds you will have to change your feet in a quick movement. Your back foot will become your front foot, and vice versa. This is the crucial part of the advanced gybe maneuver. To prepare for this, and to shorten the gap that your feet will have to bridge later, you can move your back foot slightly forward and your front foot backwards, to get your feet closer together.

Step 3. Initiate the turn maneuver by starting to fly your kite into the other side of the wind window. Keep your kite low, and with the right timing, you thereafter begin to turn your board in a tight turn into the new direction. Shortly after the tail of your board has turned through the wind, start to fly your kite up, but keep it in the new side of the wind window, so almost to half past 12. Your bar is still pushed out at this stage.

Step 4. As your kite reaches the highest point, just before 12 o-clock, pull the bar, sharply, to get some power from your kite. The kite will lift you up, and you will need to pull on the bar as much as you need to eliminate about 80 percent your body weight. You are basically suspended from your kite for a short moment, almost weight-less. However, you can still control your board with your feet, without standing on your board.

Step 5. This is the very moment when you change your feet in a quick movement, almost like a dance movement. First bring your back foot forward, and as your foot touches your board, move your front foot backwards. This is a very fast movement. To the untrained eye of an observer it almost looks like the rider is jumping. However, do not jump, because in this case you would lose contact with your board for a fraction of a second, and therefore control.

Step 6: Fly your kite down to gain speed, get onto your desired new course and correct your feet’s position on the board to stand comfortably, if needed.
It is absolutely crucial for the success of the maneuver to place your new front foot at the right position on the front pad of the board.
If your foot descends too far forward on the board, you may slip or press the board’s nose under water. If your foot is too far back, you may again loose control of your board. As you are suspended from your kite, while placing your front foot, you need sensitivity and kite control to make up for any changes in the wind speed at this very moment. So learn to apply just the right amount of pull at the bar through much practice.

It may help to execute this maneuver with only one hand at the bar, so you can use the other hand to increase balance and to make up for gusts and lulls at this very moment.
An even more elegant version of this type of advanced gybe starts with a kite down loop.

As you approach the maneuver, you fly your kite up, in this case slightly higher than before. To 11 o-clock, if you go to the left, or to 1 o-clock, if you go to the right. In order to fly it into the other side of the wind window, you down-loop your kite, and shortly thereafter you start to turn your board into the new direction. While your kite loops, release the bar, so it is at least half way pushed out.
As your kite has completed the loop, and approaches almost 12 o-clock in the new side of the wind window, get some lift from your kite by pulling the bar. Then change your feet and fly your kite back down.

With the down-loop maneuver, the kite flies a very elegant and smooth trajectory. You have a lot of power available at the end of the loop, when your kite is high, so you can eliminate most of your body weight. Now is the time to change your feet in the most controlled and elegant way.

SUMMARY

Down-loop your kite to fly it over into the other side of the wind window, to add even more control and elegance to the gybe maneuver.

Placing your new front foot quickly at exactly the right position on your board is crucial for the success of this maneuver.

Interested to learn more?

Watch the other wave kitesurfing Video Lessons

Lesson 2: How to start wave kitesurfing - turns with the right timing FREE
Lesson 3: Your furst turns with distancing and usage of the entire wind window FREE
Lesson 4: Surfing a wave - backside riding and turns on a wave
Lesson 5: Frontside top-turn
Lesson 6: Frontside top-turn after bottom-turn
Lesson 7: Focus on frontside bottom-turn FREE
Lesson 8: Focus on frontside top-turn FREE
Lesson 9: Backside top-turn after bottom-turn
Lesson 10: How to gybe - basic gybe/jibe FREE
Lesson 11: How to gybe - advanced gybe/jibe

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