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pourriez-vous me dire COMMENT utiliser le trapèze ? En gros j'ai navigué tout le temps "avec mes bras" et j'en suis revenu détruit ! Il me semble que je dois BEAUCOUP étirer les hauts et je crois qu'au début je ne trouverai pas la relaxation tant désirée. Mais peut-être a-t-il pu gérer le vol avec des mouvements plus limités ?
Je suis heureux de lire toutes les suggestions que vous pourriez me donner pour éviter les erreurs flagrantes et/ou les accidents.
Some tips I've found usefull when I tried windfoiling as a complete newbie last year :
viewtopic.php?f=42&t=100625&p=874114&#p874114Sail size : 1 or 2 sizes down as compared to the size I would normally use for planing pedal to the metal on my slalom finned gear. Example : in 7-12 knots of wind, I'm using a 10.5 m2 sail. For windfoiling, I used my 8.6 m2 sail, but I rigged with 2 cm less downhaul and outhaul to set it up fuller and more powerfull in the lowest wind range. Worked as a charm. In the strongest gusts at 13-15 knots, it was becoming way too much powerfull for windfoilng but perfect for fin planing (reset with normal downhaul and outhaul). I would have taken my 7.8 m2 in 13-15 knots easily, or even my 7.0 m2. Sail size should be just large enough to start the planing and flying of the board while pumping it. If size is too small, you won't be able to start the planing and flying; you will schlogg forever all around. No fun.
Boom height : I move my boom 10 cm higher because I want to keep my body position more upright and straight like a big 7. When boom was set too low, I got huge back pain because I was standing more like a 4.
Harness type : I use both a chest harness and a race seat harness, with long harness lines (32"). I use the chest harness to hook in while schlogging in non-planing conditions. When a gust is coming, I pump the sail and as soon as I'm flying, I hook in in the seat harness.
The seat harness is way better to lock my body, so I can move my hips sideway but with much less amplitude. When I hook in in the chest harness, hips ar more free to move around with higher amplitude, bum can stick out and it doesn't do any good thing to control the pitch of the board while flying. A more locked-in body position helped me a lot better.
Pitch control : front foot strapped, back foot decked on the middle line of the board just in front of the DTT fin screwheads. Sheeting in and out the sail is meant to regulate power in lull and gusts only. Pitch is controlled by slowly moving my hips sideways to the nose or to the tail of the board, exactly like ski carving. That was the key element to understand how to keep control of the board pitch. The race seat harness helps a lot by damping those side movements of the hips.
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