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Get up to Speed: Early planing with Harness, Footstraps, Tuning, and Mast-Foot Pressure

Get up to Speed: Early planing with Harness, Footstraps, Tuning, and Mast-Foot Pressure

Description

This clinic is to go over the finer points of getting planing and how to best use posture, footstraps and harness for this. There is a different and simpler clinic description for first learning how to use footstraps and harness.

Agenda

Setup:

Duration: 1.5 to 2 hours
Clinic leaders: Need 2 members to volunteer
Demo gear: Need 1 simulator with sail + 1 extra sail, by the picnic table
Knowledge: If possible, people should look at the videos on the club website prior to the clinic. All levels, welcome.
Wind: 15-20+ knots.

1. Introductions (by the picnic tables) - 5 min

Your name and what you want to learn:

Group 1: L1/L2: harness or footstraps
Group 2: L2/L3: early planing in low wind; handling strong wind

Clinic leader(s), explain importance of the above for L1/L2s and L2s/L3s
Clinic leader(s) can work together with a large group, or split into smaller groups depending on size & need.

2. On-Land demo and simulation (both groups) - 20 min

Sail & Board

Sail selection, tuning, wind calculator
Board types and rocker

Harness/Footstraps

How to put on a harness
How to fit footstraps

Mast foot pressure (MFP)

through arms
through harness
through pumping
while in footstraps

Demo some movements

Now it's your turn. In a group (others observe), people rotate/round-robin to try harness on land. How much weight can you commit?

Other & safety

How to fall properly windward (backward)
How to fall properly leeward (forward)

3. On-Water Exercises (both groups, separately) - 30 min

Group 1 (L1/L2)

- Clinic Leader demonstrate:
- Then in pairs, similar sized people -- repeat
- Clinic leaders(s), feedback on key points
- Everyone, try some more & observe

Group 2 (L2/L3)

Clinic Leader demonstrate:

Beachstart/Waterstart
Sail away on a plane (PLANING & PUMPING)

Can you do this in 5-10 seconds or less?
Can you plane while sailing one-handed?

Tack/Gybe
Sail back in footstraps WITHOUT planing - i.e., with exaggerated MFP

Then in pairs, similar sized people -- repeat
Clinic leaders(s), feedback on key points
Everyone, try some more & observe

4. Re-convene and debrief- 15-30 min

Share/show - what did you learn? Questions?
Other resources: see the notes on the website, Locarno Slack channel, "Windsurfing Wednesdays".

Notes on early planing

Rig Tuning & Sail Selection

JH: Boom Height, Harness Line Positioning & Length, Outhall Trim (Video 5:00) *** RECOMMENDED
Windsurfing Sail Size Calculator (Web Page). Adapted by Philippe Gosselin, based on James Douglass calculator.

Harness and/or Footstraps

GW: How to Improve Your Stance & Use the Harness (Video 6:21)
GW: Learn to Use the Footstraps & Get Planing (Video 4:27)
SR: Mastering the Harness (Video 2:10)
JH: Harness Use (Basics) - Chapter from Beginner to Winner DVD (Video 9:26)

Overall Technique

PH: Up and Riding in a Flash (Web Page) *** RECOMMENDED
SR: Intermediate Windsurfing - Getting Going (Video 2:26)
PW: How to get planing on your windsurfer (Web Page)
JH: Planing and Getting In The Footstraps (Web Page)
GC: Early Planing (PDF) *** RECOMMENDED

Advanced

PH: National Watersports Festival, UK, 2011
- About Using Harness Lines (Video 6:52)
- Early Planing 1 (Video 6:20)
- Early Planing 2 (Video 5:59)
- Early Planing 3 (Video 4:45)
PH: Strong Wind Techniques. Windsurf Magazine 2015. (PDF)
TWS: How to Pump? Pumping tips windsurfing slalom (Video 2:02)
Steven Van Broeckhoven - Pumping onto a plane (Video)

* What are those abbreviations - JH, GW, PH, TWS, etc?

The tutorials shown above are from the following YouTube/Vimeo channels. Highly recommended.