I've asked this a few times in other topics but no one ever notices so..Ok so you go away to a Guy Cribb clinic or similar in perfect condtions somewhere & crack that carve gybe or chop hop
..Does the skill translate to our crappy gusty only occasional windy conditions over here or do you lose it after being home for while when you can't practise regularly.
Yes, because you learn the muscle memory and skill combinations get recorded in your neural circuitry, whule it will be more difficult in non-ideal conditions, you've been hardwired. The hardwiring is much more difficult to develop in less than ideal conditions and particularly if you do it by trial and error rather than learning correctly at first, 
Its probably like a lot of learning. If you learn a skill in ideal conditions then you find it easier to learn and to become a master of, unless you learn incorrect technique that works in ideal conditions but doesn't in the real world.
An analogy would be learning to drive. You would not want to teach someone how to drive in an old crappy car that has a bad clutch and gearbox on Parramatta Road at 5.30pm Friday arvo. They could learn but it would not be a pleasant experience.
Same as learning to gybe in a strong outgoing current besides a breakwall with wave crashing in. You could learn but it would be hard and probably lethal.
However if you learn somewhere great and learn the correct way to do it then yes it will help you improve. The other thing is you go somewhere like that and all you do for a week or two is windsurf. So you probably get as many hours on the water as what you could get in a year in NSW.
..Does the skill translate to our crappy gusty only occasional windy conditions over here or do you lose it after being home for while when you can't practise regularly.
..Does the skill translate to our crappy gusty only occasional windy conditions over here or do you lose it after being home for while when you can't practise regularly.
. Gybe is the one thing, I just cant crack I got that frustrated, I nearly gave it all away a year or so back. In then end I came to the conclusion its one of those things that just isnt easy to do.
..Does the skill translate to our crappy gusty only occasional windy conditions over here or do you lose it after being home for while when you can't practise regularly.
I'm old enough to blame senility...
..Does the skill translate to our crappy gusty only occasional windy conditions over here or do you lose it after being home for while when you can't practise regularly.. Gybe is the one thing, I just cant crack I got that frustrated, I nearly gave it all away a year or so back. In then end I came to the conclusion its one of those things that just isnt easy to do.
so lets say you go to a clinic and the coach watches you and tells you that every time, you go into a gybe, you pull back - trying to counter the anticipated weight of the sail, but really just bogging the tail and stalling the turn. he now wants you step into the gybe, leaning forward so that your hips are well over the centreline. try again for me he says.
so you do. as you come back in and initiate the gybe he's yelling at you "hips inboard!". but you don't quite get there, but over the next few gybes, you're watched and encouraged to commit to the turn and suddenly you do it! it's kind of accidental and all happens so fast that you bollocks up the rig flip, but hey, the carve felt sweet, and inexplicably just 'right'. you now know the feeling you're going for, and even something about how to achieve it. the rest is practice.
sure the conditions when you come back might be different but the principles are now in your mind, and you proved you can do it.
you have "leveled up". congrats, you're now a better windsurfer!
Absolute yes to the original question.
I teach both beginners and basic freestyle. I find good conditions remove so many variables, allowing the brain to focus on the trick at hand. Once you get it in ideal conditions or start to, then you get better and better at introspecting on adjustments when you come back home.
Of course none of this applies to moves you still can't perform in ideal conditions - the case with many of mine
. problem is I don't really know how to replicate it..[}:)]
