Backloops Time

[AdrienGrelon]

You gonna be out tomorrow, Chuck?? Leave the kite at home! I wanna try table forwards

[Chuck]

You gonna be out tomorrow, Chuck?? Leave the kite at home! I wanna try table forwards

I'd sure like to try, I missed Thursday's festivities as I've been quite sick with a killer head/chest cold. Also have a 11 yr old birthday party/sleepover to prepare for
I'll do my best to make an appearance, can't really trash talk unless I'm out there throwing down alongside

[Mike]

I'd sure like to try, I missed Thursday's festivities as I've been quite sick with a killer head/chest cold. Also have a 11 yr old birthday party/sleepover to prepare for
I'll do my best to make an appearance, can't really trash talk unless I'm out there throwing down alongside

I think I see the real reason you don't want chatter about tomorrow my loopy friend .

Visualize - it's gonna be great!

[C36]

Less talking more doing!

Just launch at 3rd and follow Daniel around (only guy I have ever seen land a back loop cleanly windsurfing at CNL). Then do as he does.

Adrien - I found the same thing about rotating too fast when trying to turn too soon - on high wind the rotation can be harsh. Better more height allows things to slow. The pulling of the back foot is something to think about. I wonder if this puts you in position to push the tail down and nose up on landing??

Chris - Your concept of thinking about the forward motion makes a lot of sense and that did not occur to me. I'm thinking this is where the upwind jump pointing the nose straight up comes in. Usually the flaw in a move is not where it fails, rather a step or two before you are out of position.

I found what SM says in this one helpful - small wave loopy pop versus larger, steeper wave high jump, stall at apex.

[Windsurfdan]

The Back loop The best loop of all but sometime the trickiest one to land.
Wind direction: Side to side off. Ramp steep. Wind don't need to be to power up. What I found that work for me is if you are too powered up just before taking off on a ramp sheet in hard and as you rocket into the rotation look over your shoulder, tuck in and spot a landing. Commit to this You don't need to be 25' up in the air. You can easily do a back loop on a 2' wave.
Dan

[AdrienGrelon]

A little snippet from Windsurfing Now 1.2. I'm probably breaching some copyright spreading the love, so enjoy

[Mike]

Thanks for sharing. There are some very relevant pointers. Need another set of days but too bad we're stuck in "end of days."

[Alton]

For full resolution download/file.php?id=3553

[AdrienGrelon]

Thanks for the full pop link, Alton. Not sure why the attachment link softens the quality slightly...

Mike, I also found a few pointers in there that are helpful/make sense to me based on how my current attempts have gone. 2-3 more good Columbia days and I think I can claim one - no time to muck around in 2016

Also, we should get a general WTF thread on OR Coast 2016 setup soon, as I hear rumors of a few different serious pole dancers signing up! Would be awesome to coordinate dates with others long in advance. I will probably try to push for a 2-3 week window of possible time off with work, so that I have options in terms of the forecast. Right now it would probably be sometime I June I think..

[AdrienGrelon]

How to not over-rotate:

http://www.continentseven.com/backloop-one-handed-omar-sanchez/

Huge.