The wind has kept on blowing since the Easter Clinic finished (typically) and I spent last week with Luke Lynch and Rod Dickinson, both very good sailors from the south coast who wanted to work on their forwards- my favourite "work", haha. Luke was having problems getting the rotation whereas Rod´s forwards were already pretty solid but he wanted to learn to stall them and get a more lateral rotation. Conditions couldn´t have been better with strong NE winds every day and good-sized wind swell at Punta and the boys punished themselves admirably in pursuit of their respective goals. We worked out Luke´s rotation problem (leaning too far back on take-off) and he´s off to Morocco in June with Skyeboy where I´m sure he´ll crack it fully (and John will take all the credit, haha)- we just needed one more day, as is so often the case. Check him out in the shots below...
Rod, meanwhile, had an extra few days and he made full use of them- I was stoked to see him cruising out amongst the locals and boosting some big, clean stalled forwards by the end of his stay. His rotation had changed completely so it was job definitely done and a smiling Rod will by now showing off his newfoundaerial prowess at his local beach in the UK. I can still see him smiling...check out one of his stalled forwards right here!
For now, I´ll leave you with a couple of action pics accompanied by some very important forward looping advice, ciao...
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