by patrickrynne » Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:50 pm
LMR,
jibing strapless is a pretty fundamental skill to have. I am not really sure that there are any tricks of the trade to learn faster, though the following advice helped me.
1.) Get on the water. Keep going out strapless, even if you fall. If at first you don't succeed, try try again! Eventually you'll start getting it.
2.) Figure out you natural stance (i am goofy, right foot forward). In general I like to be on my natural stance when I jibe. So say you are heelside on your natural stance, you will turn through the jibe completely onto a new tack before switching your feet. If you are coming heelside NOT on your natural stance, I generally switch my feet before initiating the jibing turn. There are a lot of videos out there showing this approach, just google it.
hope that helps
-patrick