Use this thread to discuss our feature on learning to loop at 50 Years old. (http://www.boardseekermag.com/special_features/the_loop/loop_at_50_018.htm) Are you struggling to learn to loop, does Williams experience give you inspiration? http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,122#msg-122 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:36:52 +0000 Phorum 5.2.19 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,317#msg-317 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,317#msg-317 Wideboy GENERAL DISCUSSION Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:24:30 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,304#msg-304 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,304#msg-304 Airtime Vu GENERAL DISCUSSION Wed, 31 May 2006 04:46:51 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,303#msg-303 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,303#msg-303
the advice about trying one on the first run is spot on. you're psyched up, feeling strong and can still hear in your head what you were telling yourself on the drive to the beach that this time you are going to do it.

the only injury i picked up from learning was a bruised bum. but what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

]]> mark westy GENERAL DISCUSSION Tue, 30 May 2006 16:13:06 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,289#msg-289 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,289#msg-289
Also, just jumping and looking back doesnt make the loop work, head movement wise you probably want to jump look where you want to go (off the wind), so you are looking forwards, then as you pull the sail across you and into your chest you are aiming to essentially roll around your back shoulder so this is the point where you look back or tuck your head into your back shoulder. Then as you rotate and come to land you look down between your legs to spot your landing and sheet out to spill the rotation.

At least if you lost the board downwind it meant you were going in the right direction, just remember to hold on next time.

I think the best time to learn a loop is when you feel you are going faster than the wind, which on 5.3 - 4.7 you can easily. When it is windy, i.e on a 4.2, you are going to get one hell of a pull in the air when you sheet in, so are more likely to bail!.

The other thing to do is make sure you always try one on the first run and get it out of the way!]]> Clyde Waite - Admin GENERAL DISCUSSION Thu, 25 May 2006 09:43:57 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,288#msg-288 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,288#msg-288
Jon]]> Jon GENERAL DISCUSSION Wed, 24 May 2006 21:52:31 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,197#msg-197 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,197#msg-197
Jump (downwind-ish)
Push rig forward/across with front hand
Sheet in with back and look at clew
Pull up back leg
Around you go!

Sounds so easy on paper!!! Cheers



]]> Ste GENERAL DISCUSSION Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:42:14 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,196#msg-196 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,196#msg-196 Clyde Waite - Admin GENERAL DISCUSSION Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:58:55 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,187#msg-187 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,187#msg-187 Ste GENERAL DISCUSSION Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:58:38 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,184#msg-184 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,184#msg-184 all the boys who can loop consistently say the same thing.
the rig must come across you as you jump just like bearing away for a flare gybe.
the team airborne boys allso showed me how to do gecko forwards.
these can be done in no wind and the movements are the same as the real thing.
you end up on your back after doing a full rotation without leaving the water.
if you sail along and just jump and sheet in all you do is crash at high speed after being wrenched out of the footstraps]]> sav GENERAL DISCUSSION Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:34:49 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,180#msg-180 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,180#msg-180
Remember that you have to bear away in the air, so the rig movement is like a kinda similar to a super fast flare gybe from a tight reach. You know the ones, where you really have to pull the sail accross to the outside of the turn and pull your back hand in to steer round the turn. Well try that in mid air and you will be surprised at what will happen!

]]> Clyde Waite - Admin GENERAL DISCUSSION Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:50:47 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,162#msg-162 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,162#msg-162 Bottom line though is stop listening to the voices in your head.. coming up with every reason NOT to do it. Wearing the wrong harness, waves too small, wetsuit the wrong colour, too windy, not enough wind, wrong board, wrong direction etc... Have heard them all, probably told myself all of them a long time ago before getting over it.
You just have to forget all that and ask yourself this:
What are you afraid of, improving?]]> Oisin GENERAL DISCUSSION Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:43:10 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,159#msg-159 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,159#msg-159 Ste GENERAL DISCUSSION Sun, 16 Apr 2006 07:08:27 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,158#msg-158 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,158#msg-158 ng to loop.i have spells of really going for it followed by sailing round all day and never finding the right wave,wind,and getting very frustrated with myself.
so glad to hear of someone else who has broken through the barrier and become a proper looper.
this story has given me renewed hope.
cheers for that

sav]]> sav GENERAL DISCUSSION Sat, 15 Apr 2006 20:39:54 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,147#msg-147 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,147#msg-147 MadTaff GENERAL DISCUSSION Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:33:47 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,127#msg-127 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,127#msg-127 non looper :( GENERAL DISCUSSION Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:03:52 +0000 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,122#msg-122 http://forums.boardseekermag.com/read.php?3,122,122#msg-122
Are you struggling to learn to loop, does Williams experience give you inspiration?]]> BOARDSEEKER GENERAL DISCUSSION Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:51:33 +0000