Windsurf Coaching - Youth & Adult

Service Description

Windsurf Coaching & Practice Day – Youths & Adult 09.30 to 12.30 / or 15.30 Where are your at? i) Done your Start Windsurf beginner course but need some more help on skills plus grow confidence ii) You’ve stalled at a progression plateau, can’t seem to go any faster or make manoeuvres any smoother. iv) You’re struggling trying to handle stronger winds. v) You fancy adding some extra skills to your tool box – * Beach Start, Non-Planing Carve Gybe vi) You want to practice in the comfort of some supervision or help at hand, but don’t want to join a coaching group. Come along you’ll be welcome. We're all at some point on the development curve. From the baseline of Start Windsurfing the basic skills of windsurfing don’t change; it’s the subtleties of accentuating one or more key actions that make the difference to enable you to progress. Each of these Focus Areas are from the Intermediate Windsurf ‘Fast Forward Formula’ The Coaching Model 1) Vision – where we look leads the rest of our body which impacts the rig & board; eg heading upwind or downwind 2) Trim – keeping the board flat for speed, rail with toes for acceleration, heels for high wind control etc 3) Balance (& Counter Balance) – using body weight Vs rig weight & movement & control power. Keep distance to rig 4) Power – channeling the rigs forces through ‘sheeting’ back and down. 5) Stance – this is how we shape our body frame to best use body weight to channel power, trim and control speed & direction. This isn't a full Intermediate Course, we'll do a Clinic style session on chosen skill focus areas. Session Framework If you know where you’re struggling – great. We can give you some further tips to work on. If you’re unsure of where you’re struggling, we’ll take a quick look at everyone’s sailing skills to give us a guide as to which areas you're be best to work on to build your skills. The content of this day will be determined by you, what you and the group want to achieve. Your prior ability and the weather conditions on the day will have relevance to what we can coach. Rigging & Tuning Launching & Landing Getting Going Tacking – you’ll recall from Start Windsurf this was the trickiest drill Steering Stance *Non-Planning Carve Gybe – introduces the key movements that are the foundation of the Planning Carve Gybe *Beach Start – look cool setting off from the beach & this is a similar skill set for a water start!