Select to expand quoteMagic Ride said..
I have figured out how to edit my videos now in Gopro Studio. I got a little more height in on my jump in this video. I still need to lift my legs when I jump off the chop.
You must have edited out the jump, because what I saw was the board glued to the water.
Select to expand quoteMagic Ride said..Stuthepirate said..Magic Ride said..
Ok, here is me sailing doing some bump n jump. Do you guys think I could get more air than this based on the conditions here?
If i can add my opinion here, loosen your foot straps off to get your feet further in the straps.
My footstraps are loosened as far as they go, plus I have booties on. The straps feel fine to me.
You always seem to have a reason for not taking advise. What's the point of asking in the first place
Select to expand quoteJohn340 said..Magic Ride said..
I have figured out how to edit my videos now in Gopro Studio. I got a little more height in on my jump in this video. I still need to lift my legs when I jump off the chop.
You must have edited out the jump, because what I saw was the board glued to the water.
Lol, how strange. I cut n pasted the 9 plus minute video to here from youtube. The jumps are all in that one. I will try this again.
Now YouTube has that video as a 30 second clip. Stay tuned, I'm fixing it so you can see the whole clip. And the jumps will be on their.
Problem solved and the whole 9 plus minute video is available for viewing. Just go to the same video and it's full length now.
All my jumps are on the starboard tack by the way.
I got nuthin new... maybe tell us how many minutes:seconds in we need to look at.
There's no wind here so I may as well watch someone else ahving fun.
This is a sequence of GClarke getting some distance at Lagoon in a breezy westerly.
The jump in my avatar is from 30 years ago but I remember it like it was yesterday. Its at Trigg 3rd carpark. I'm using a 3.7 RAF Wave (which I still have), the wind was howling and I gybed in the flat water close to the shore and got heaps of speed on the way out across the sand bank. I came down nose first on the backside of the next wave for a textbook smooth landing. My wife took the photo and it was a long wait for the prints to come back. Most other times I tried that ended in tears with me face-planting into the front of the next wave. The embarrassing thing is I tried it a few months ago at Dutchies, the setup was perfect but the execution poor, probably because I now have arms like noodles and weigh 20 kgs more than in the avatar photo.
www.seabreeze.com.au/Img/Photos/Windsurfing/tn/mini-3212473.jpg' />Got to get the knees up. (which may be hard if you have a bad knee, also landing badly may hurt your knee more) Turning downwind and raking/trimming sail to get more flight. I like to be as fast as possible and stay hooked in on take off. Pick the steepest section and try not to take off heading to far up wind, you will lose too much speed.
These are from 20 or so years ago in Townsville Nth Qld in about 30Knts, ocean/bay sailing.
2.20-3.00 on the original video is where the action starts folks.
I have an excel spreadsheet for how many minutes of my life Magicride owes me.
Select to expand quotegeared4knots said..
Thats a nice looking forward ramp and angle, lungs
Thanks. At about 3:23 in the video felt better, but I need to bring my knees up.
Thanks guys for posting all those great air shots, looks great and gives me something to aim for.
Okay, I'll try to be more serious.
Pick a bump down wind from you, not out in front of the direction you're going. Sail down to it, which will gain you more speed, then crank onto it at the last second (returning to you're original direction), pulling in the booms hard, that alone will give you more lift. It's like spring loading yourself, cranking onto the bump.
Like others have said, as soon as you leave the lip, put on the squeeze, booms down to your chest, knees up to the booms (as far as you can lift them anyway), that will grab more wind under the sail, turning it into a wing, sort of. The longer you can hold the squeeze, the farther you will travel in the air, which we call "travel air".
Extend you body for a soft landing, and keep the nose of the board pointing off the wind a bit, so that you don't land pointing up wind, you can't really sail away from a landing if you're pointing upwind. As you get better at that, try to land nose first, it's the smoothest way to land, and the easiest way to sail away from the jump w/o scrubbing off much speed. Tail first landings kills your forward speed, but feels safer, even though you will most likely have to water start after the jump.
Side note ~ I stay hooked in when entering a jump, more power that way, and when you put on the squeeze, you'll automatically unhook by itself for a safe landing.
Select to expand quoteMastbender said..
Okay, I'll try to be more serious.
Pick a bump down wind from you, not out in front of the direction you're going. Sail down to it, which will gain you more speed, then crank onto it at the last second (returning to you're original direction), pulling in the booms hard, that alone will give you more lift. It's like spring loading yourself, cranking onto the bump.
Like others have said, as soon as you leave the lip, put on the squeeze, booms down to your chest, knees up to the booms (as far as you can lift them anyway), that will grab more wind under the sail, turning it into a wing, sort of. The longer you can hold the squeeze, the farther you will travel in the air, which we call "travel air".
Extend you body for a soft landing, and keep the nose of the board pointing off the wind a bit, so that you don't land pointing up wind, you can't really sail away from a landing if you're pointing upwind. As you get better at that, try to land nose first, it's the smoothest way to land, and the easiest way to sail away from the jump w/o scrubbing off much speed. Tail first landings kills your forward speed, but feels safer, even though you will most likely have to water start after the jump.
Side note ~ I stay hooked in when entering a jump, more power that way, and when you put on the squeeze, you'll automatically unhook by itself for a safe landing.
Now we're talkin!! Very nice description of all of it. Funny thing is, I always jump hooked in to the harness too and then naturally come unhooked through the jump, helps keep the load off my arms. "The Squeeze", I like it!
Thx mastbender
Select to expand quoteSparky said..
2.20-3.00 on the original video is where the action starts folks.
I have an excel spreadsheet for how many minutes of my life Magicride owes me.
I charge by the minute
Point your toes while in the air so wind gets under the board and provides a bit of extra left.
Select to expand quotecoastflyer said..
Now this was a big jump! Pity that he couldn't land it, though.
Wow that must be 40 foot at least,based on about 5 board lengths.
Does it count if he didn't land it?
Select to expand quoteMagic Ride said..
Thanks. At about 3:23 in the video felt better, but I need to bring my knees up.
As you clear the chop, try and touch your arse with the heal of your back foot. This will be easier if your foot is further into your foot strap.
same as lungs but in alva little ramps lots of speed and smile at the camera and make sure you dont own the board or sail
All wonderful advice. Looking forward to applying it on the water for my next session.
Ok, I think I saw you biggest jump and, technically, I don't think it was a jump because the fin looked to be still in the water.
There's some pretty amazing jumps above so I had a look around for more realistic chop hopping videos for you to look at. There's plenty on YouTube. This one looked ok and says much of what has been discussed above.
Sailing in the ocean at reasonable speed one often has inadvertent jumps. I think the only thing I do when this happens it tilt the board a little and pull the tail toward me for a smooth landing with no spin out or loss of speed.
My mate at chop jumping at Dutchies in the '80s. We went out with one of those first waterproof pocket cameras. I took one of the photos while sailing.
Magic,
to really jump you need more speed. You are barely planing on this video. Get a bigger sail or learn to unload the board and release it from the water to fully plane. It appears that you are standing over the board too much and the sail is not fully sheeted in. Try to keep your front leg straight to efficiently transfer the power into the board. Bent knees kill the power and speed. Transfer your weight onto the deck only on the ramp to make the board pop and push off with your legs.
Magic ..................... now i've seen you in your video is there something your not telling us?
Select to expand quotePaddles B'mere said..
Magic ..................... now i've seen you in your video is there something your not telling us?
Lol
