fernmanus wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 9:08 pm
Perhaps, it is obvious to you what you are doing, but it would really help if you had someone else film you. I can’t tell what you are doing from the video. Thank you.
Well, sorry that sounds obvious for people working transitions on hydrofoil, but not for others ... Unfortunately I have nobody able to make a video of me ; next time I will lay the helmet with my video recorder on the ground to get an external view ; but the video of SaulOhio shows it very well , for example at 0:16 and 0:29
The principle is to turn upwind, so facing the wind at the middle of the transition, while "standard " transition on snow are turning back to the wind (like SaulOhio video at 0:50 for example)
This is applicable on hydrofoil , called "air-tack" and you can find wonderful videos of it ; very technical on the water ; the particularity on snow is :
- if the wind goes upward the slope, you can use the slope to pursue a long upwind direction, absolutely facing the wind and endless if the slope has enough angle ; you can see two very long transitions on my video; this is crazy, having a 0 angle to the wind , but be careful if the slope is too high, you could fly like a paraglider, very dangerous for non-experts
- on a hydrofoil you need to with foot during the tack ; while on skis , since they are symmetrical, there is no notion of changing feet and your pursue exactly like you were riding before the transition
- it is quite easy to perform this on snow, hence a good exercise to learn hydrofoil tacks
- it is very efficient and you loose nothing upwind, while on a standard gibe with speed, you go deep downwind and loos a lot upwind.
My video is not a wonderful tutorial but shows how effective and pleasant it can be.
With no slope like SaulOhio, or worse if wind goes downward the slope , it works but requires a different technics and better timing ; I can recover an old video later on if you want