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I hit a ton of jibes today. I wanted to only sail for about 90 minutes, so I stuck around Grassy instead of making the run up to the Playground. It was ripping, me on my 6.6 and it blowing 23 gusting to 28. I was powered to overpowered almost the entire time, and I hit so many sweet jibes. My debugging yesterday made a huge difference.
I was so powered to overpowered that I didn't try many duck jibes until it started dropping toward 6pm. I hit a few, but none were very good. I'm at a new plateau: can do them, but not well. I've hit good ones, but it's a matter of putting it together. With lots of speed, things just happen so fast in a duck jibe that it's easy to make mistakes. It's also easy to keep your speed, though. The longer boom length makes it a little harder than doing them with my 5.4, too. It's not that much different, though. I just need to keep the board carving and reach farther back.
I did well on a few step jibes, too. I usually do a sail-first, feet second jibe, but I tried a few of the other ones with some improved footwork I've been thinking about and it helped a lot. The big thing was just that I was totally powered up and it's so much easier to crank out a nice, tight, fully-planing jibe when you have speed to burn.
Yesterday on a ducker I wrecked hard and compressed my knees -- my right knee hit me in the jaw. If I had my tongue between my teeth it would have been bitten badly and I was surprised I didn't chip a tooth. I thought "great, now I need to start using a mouthpiece!".
Yesterday I also decided that after 8/26, which is my "been sailing in Corpus Christi for exactly one year" anniversary, I'm going to stop keeping this detailed log and instead just note what I used and where I sailed and maybe a few brief notes. It's just too much work to continue doing it.
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