How to Carve Gybe- Part 1! 

Excellent tip on "creeping the back foot" to avoid to rushed stamping in the rail. Im looking forward to giving that a go in the next session. Thanks for the time and effort you put into these videos.

Your 360 videos and explanations are superb. I watch them even in slo-mo and can't wait to try out your tips. Keep going!

Creepy back foot😂 excellent video Cookie - very informative

at 5:21 "and then, we can do what we like around the rest of it" with no-handed rig flip...very flashy Mr. Cook! super useful steps guiding me on my first forays into carve gybing thanks a lot!

No guts no glory!!!! I hear it every attempt I make even through my over the castle wall catapults 😁 I cant wait to land one I love your channel your videos and daily dawn patrol have made this my best summer of wind surfing ever!!!! Thank you

Great video!... I have only done a few successful carve gybes so far...When they go well I feel its because I was comfortable, stable and in the right place from the start.... Your video is so helpful😀....

Great advices! It helped me soooo much:) At least most of my gybes stay dry now. Feeling like really progressing! Thank You!

Wow I can't believe the sound quality out there on the water with everything going on. Cheers 🍻

Love your stoke and your vids - and I don't even windsurf anymore! Two best tips I got years ago were: bend knees and stay low - look underneath the boom even. Before I learned to carry speed into turns, my friend suggested practicing sailing clew first, even clew-first waterstarts in light winds. That was key to getting step gybes, and I feel it accelerated my carving gybes too. Am enjoying your windsurf foil vids too as I try my hand at that!

Love your videos and now my wife is watching them as she gets back into windsurfing with some new carbon mast and boom…super lightweight. I see you ski and snowboard as well. So do my wife and I. I am also an instructor in both so that I can keep learning. Thanks for the incredible effort you put in. Hope we can come from Canada one day to one of your camps.

Very good. Zooming in on the feet really helped. Thank you!

Great teaching, look forward to part 2

Great tutorial ...back hand back , and rear foot out..key setup points.

I Love Your Tips

Great video. Thank you!

Nice one, really good drill. Deffo gonna give it a go. great channel my dude :)

Super video ❤!!

Excellent video, Cookie, as usual! I am also missing the next part…

Hello Cookie, thank you for your videos, they do help. Are you going to do a How to carve gybe part 2 video? Anyway, thanks again.

Great Video!

Excellent video again Cookie! Your enthousiasme is addictive, i really like the little screams in between, just like we all do (or at least myself when windsurfing), but the combination with the very clear explanation is unbeatable. As I said in the comments of another video, I really hope to come to Vassiliki next year and book some coaching lessons. Regarding this video: I tried your move with the back foot since last year and it works really well, however, what happens with me occasionally is that I enter the jibe going so bloody fast things go wrong from there… I either slam into a wave in front of me, or the rail just catches or I’ll be just catapulted forward… Having said that, the success rate of my jibes has gone up considerably. So thanks a lot for that!! Enjoy the summer and keep up the good work 👍 Best regards, Arno

I love your channel Your a rock star thank you for all the tips.! Helps this Colorado windsurfer alot. I've had the best season of my life this year.

Hi there! Thanks again for the excellent channel. Not sure why I didn't get a notification for this specific video (I could only find the vid through the playlist) and I only found your new video accidentaly.

Great tips again Simon! Love the wat you explain things, learned so much front tour vids already. This one i am going to practice on my holliday, hope i will get my first ever carve gibe done there. Keep more vids coming!

so good! thanks cookie. I would say that I prefer to unhook first before taking the back foot out because I got catapulted ones trying taking the back foot first in high winds.

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Great video brother..Looking forward to #2.I like the nose protector on that board too.Do you know where I can find one for the SB isonic 77?

Fantastic thanks. I've got to learn to listen. Still can't understand how the wind is that good at Vass with the bloody great big mountain in the way...

Hallo Cookie, when do you start to open the sail/ turning the clew after you stepped with your back foot on the other side of the board ? I'm not sure how long I have to keep the sail closed to get power. But when I start to open it I loose the power/speed. Do you open it on the old downwindcourse or in front of the wind or on the new downwindcourse ? Thanks a lot !

Excellent video , I’m nearly there when just powered to well powered but when I’m fully powered it all seems to go wrong ! Any tips for well powered to over powered jibing ?

What speed should I be entering a gybe? Should it be blasting speed or should I ease off a little/a lot first? Struggling to carve gybe as blasting seems frighteningly fast to initiate a turn and when I ease off I almost stop then turn. In other words I’m struggling to transition between non planing and planing gybes. Thanks

cmon cookie, get back on da water! we miss your videos!

Thanks for another great video. With my gybes I tend to stall at the end and then round up into wind and I can’t workout why ! Would it be down to the preparation phase ?

Thank C. When is part II coming in?

Hi coach cookie, amazing video!! I noticed something that got me thinking 🤔. I have a 94lt 2018 Kode fw myself and I've always used it with an inboard setup. But I saw that you have your front footstraps on the outside position and only one footstrap on the back. What are the benefits of such a set-up?

Hi Cookie, did you ever get to make How to Carve Gybe Part 2? Great first video but I need to learn how to finish my gybes 😆

I still stop, because I have a tendency to flip the rig too early. But at least they stay dry because of your disco jibe tip and at the moment dry jibes are good jibes. You can get in so much more practice if you don't have to waterstart all the time.

If one of my gybes fail, I can usually pin point it to missing one of the steps in the preparation!! Here are some thoughts I have had over the last week where I feel have progressed a lot in my Gybing. (Staying dry!! and almost planing!!) In most of the locations I sail, I have environmental challenges and you may be able to advise. One thing is it's choppy and usually a running swell (not that big, but big enough), at one point I tried to open my carves up , keep the board more flat and not stand on the rail as much, but this made my gybes worse as the sea state could not accommodate such a wide turning circle, I would be getting air over the back of the chop mid turn, I was making it through some gybes but it was very hard work and a bit of a lottery at times. As soon as I tighten those turns up, I can get between the waves by timing it right and have much better stability. There is one place I go sailing where I could try the wider turning circle, and I will try this next time I go there. But in the meantime, if I have the board turning fairly tight, riding on the rail, it smoothes the turn out a lot and I have better stability which means I can actually maintain a higher speed through the gybe, what are your thoughts on this? Sometimes its also hard to do the foot creep at speed in the chop, I am working on this, I find if I take longer in the preparation, after the rear foot is out, and I'm out of the harness, then I can usually get the board to settle enough, but sometimes you're at the mercy of the sea state, but even just thinking about it can help, I guess it forces me to take more time before I carve, and that time means I can get the board to settle. But it is tricky sometimes. Lastly, (sorry for the long post!!) Do you find that its easier and more comfortable doing gybes in one particular direction? My gybes off a Starboard tack are far more fluid and comfortable than off the Port tack. I even find it quite difficult to analyze this, its the strangest thing. This is something I am working on at the moment, but was wondering if you have any advice in this other than repetition..... Great video, I like this new simple format and letting the images do the talking, its really helpful.....

Hey Cookie, great video, thank you! What is the camera and mount setup you are using here? I really like the point of view you are showing, but not sure how I could do that with my flymount and GoPro hero 9.

I really enjoy watching your Videos! Are u working in a Surf school there? A Viedo about it would be awesome dude

I just spent two days trying to finally get the carve jibe. No matter how fast I am going, I come to almost a full stop by the time I flip the sail. I apply lots of mast foot pressure and tried carving harder, softer, longer etc with not much difference. I also tried not bearing away as some ppl recommended. I’m not entirely sure what the role of the sail is during the jibe. Some people say it should be pulling me into the turn other people say it should be unnoticeable. Thanks in advance.

Have a question about feet change when gybing. Noticed, that you place the front foot behind your back foot which is not a common way. Could you explain?

Would be nice if You can add some arrows showing wind direction

Come to cabarete(Dominican Republic) we have good beaches for windsurf

Hallo Cookie, when will you show us the next part of the power gybe, especially how do you get from the acceleration into the carving phase?

Cookie, can't find part 2 to this video? Did you ever do one? Cheers 🍻

I meant to write "on" the rail. I have developed that bad habit, from practicing pivot jibes in light winds.

My problem is that I stop planning after changing feet: board going upwind…. i change boom to mast hand…. Learmt that way and never succeed to change it

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Excellent video, thanks! I'm looking forward to trying this next time I'm out, and just focusing on the first part of my gybe. I've been stuck on planing into the gybe, stalling about halfway around and then slogging out of the turn (if I stay dry). Here's a link to a video of a pretty typical attempt of mine: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rzJtQzIof1I.html. I expect this is a pretty classic example of what not to do from start to finish of the gybe, but if you have any feedback about "part 1" I'd love to hear it! Switching my feet and the rig flip obviously need a lot of work, but I've been re-watching some of your other videos, and I expect you'll have more on that in "part 2".