The secret to easier air gibes and tacks?

[alexrider]

I didn't attempt to switch feet whilst flying yet because I am reluctant to replace my single front strap by two straps configured in V.
Would a transverse placement of the front strap help making the transition easy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFDfsxDkh5M

[borist]

It might, however I'm not sure it will allow you to have both feet comfortably side by side as two strap setup does. For me, 2 straps: I can keep switching my feet all day long, single strap: forget it. Why not try strapless if you don't want 2 straps?

[Mossy 757]

The person in the video fails to bring the kite high, sheet in to unweight in the harness, and use this moment of weightlessness to switch feet. So instead they play this slow and deliberate foot shuffle game, constantly adjusting to balance the foil while they maneuver their feet.

Good gybes look like magic because you're moving your feet at the exact moment where you're not using them to support your body, the kite is. However you setup your foot straps, until you get this part down your gybes will be sketch.

[Pedro Marcos]

I didn't attempt to switch feet whilst flying yet because I am reluctant to replace my single front strap by two straps configured in V.
Would a transverse placement of the front strap help making the transition easy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFDfsxDkh5M

He is making it much harder then it actually is.

[windmaker]

I didn't attempt to switch feet whilst flying yet because I am reluctant to replace my single front strap by two straps configured in V.
Would a transverse placement of the front strap help making the transition easy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFDfsxDkh5M

Never seen a transverse placement of front strap before. As someone said before he makes it harder than it really is but there are different technics.

Strap to strap requires high kite and to "hang" onto the kite , strapless you can do your jibes with the kite much lower into the window as you switch both feet simultaneously therefore no need to hang. Practicing foot change on my longboard,, hoping from regular to switch helped a lot.

[alexrider]

Strapless is the goal indeed, but I believe the board I'm using at the moment (Zeeko AirWave 5'2) is too narrow for that with my present experience. Never seem a video of that board without straps. Thinking of getting a wider and thinner board designed for that. Or adapt my old Double Agent board.

It might, however I'm not sure it will allow you to have both feet comfortably side by side as two strap setup does. For me, 2 straps: I can keep switching my feet all day long, single strap: forget it. Why not try strapless if you don't want 2 straps?

[Kamikuza]

Tried two straps for the first time earlier this year, it was much easier. Strapless is easier of course

With a single front strap, I only ever had just my toes under it. So for a foot change, I'd rotate my foot on on the heel then place the foot straight ahead next to the strap. Then the other foot has space to come forward and under the strap--just.

[Starsky]

The secret? Well if your talking about anything on foil, its not straps, its speed.

Thinking back to learning to jibe and how timid it all seems in retrospect. Go into anything with a decent head of steam and you have so much more stability and time to sort it out.

[Mossy 757]

The secret? Well if your talking about anything on foil, its not straps, its speed.

Thinking back to learning to jibe and how timid it all seems in retrospect. Go into anything with a decent head of steam and you have so much more stability and time to sort it out.

And oh btw, you'll ride out of it with your kite still in the air instead of having it fall behind your head while you're jerking around switching feet during a slow-ass touchdown.

[davesails7]

The secret to foil jibing for me was getting a new foil! My spotz 2 was very pitch sensitive and after a year of trying I still couldn't do it. Bought a new Delta foil and I was just doing it first day out