Anybody has tips on how to best gybe on a board with 2 footstraps?

What is the best sequence of changing the feet?

Appreciate the advice, thanks!

Take your back foot out and stick it up by the front strap where it'll be going (sorta stepping on your other foot's toes that are currently in the front strap). Carve the board around as the kite goes up through nuetral.
As you start heading off in the new direction, pull out your old front foot and place it back near the back strap (don't worry about putting it in yet). Now the front strap is vacant and you can slide in your new front foot which is right there.

Since you now have your (new)front foot secured in a strap again, you have back your control. The kite can now be pulling you along steadily, and this is when you put your rear foot in, and then you are SET!

I have seen that gybe on a larger directional, but I am afraid, that in case of a shorter mutant (even with 1.65m) the nose would dive with that method.
OR NOT?
Shall we concentrate on keeping considerable speed while performing that? Or shall we do it while kite is pulling upwards?

Regards,

Greg

That's the way I do it on 2 strap 2001 Naish Mutant. The upward pull of the kite lets me sort of tip-toe my way through it, even if I'm not totally planing through my jibe.
I am a beginner at two strap jibing, and am just sharing my experiences with it.

Just give it a try, the thing that held me back for a long time was simply being hesitant to even try it at first! Then I picked a good day and just kept at it. By the end of the day I was ,aking 75% of the jibes. Not full-speed carving jibes, but decent directional changes that kept me going.

Thanks to both for the tips. Is there anybody else (maybe an "expert") who does this in a different way? Or they all have TT's???

The way I do it so far is by taking out my back foot out and placing it in front of the back strap before entering the turn, like in windsurfing. After the turn, when heading in the new direction and before pulling down the kite completely, I have 2 options:
1. bring the back foot to right before the front strap, remove the front foot and put the back foot in there.
2. remove the front foot 1st, and then bring the back foot all the way from the back of the board into the front strap, in one time (which is usually kind of a trial and error, sometimes I miss...)
Finally bring the former front foot to the back strap and put it in when you have some speed again.

Success rate so far seems to be around 50%, which I definitely want to improve.

Thanks for your help!

Hello
I have a two straps mini directional 145 .
Just try to change foot before turning on your "bad" side very easier
Do not try to have to much speed at beginning . just get use to ride the board with your feet out of the straps in various position ...

....I'd like to extend the question: Do you ride a mutant with more back foot pressure than a TT?

I just got a 151 Underground - a great looking board! - but have not had an opportunity to try it yet.


Jim

Thanks again. Yesterday I was able to practice a bit, and have noticed that somehow I am able to "walk" on the board more easily, without losing balance. And this allowed me to improve my gybe-success rate considerably.

So I guess it definitely helps to practice riding your board out of the straps in different positions, as Francky was saying. It's all a matter of having a good board feeling, and not only when in the footstraps.

Jim,

I find that I need LESS rear foot pressure with a mutant, than with a TT, since the fins are more centered under your rear foot, not waaay back on the tip, like on a TT. I like that feeling much better than a TT, the Mutant feels more balanced.

......ooooh - Good thinking! UG uses five little 1.5" Rainbows...whereas the killer HAMMER - I lost - had conventional surfboard, thruster fins both center and back.

This little UG is a sweet piece of work. Tight and nicely finished. Even looks like you could nose-ride it! They have non-skid all over the deck, not just deck pads.

Anon - thanks for the thought. It's only "blowing" 9mph (Friday afternoon) with a diminishing wind forcast for the weekend.

Later.

Jim