CLOSE
Sign up to get news on contests, pro events, new products and special offers.
lukeIn this windsurfing how to, learn how to do a flaka. Once mastered, the flaka — a jump-initiated upwind 360 — can be one of the easier freestyle windsurfing tricks to throw in a variety of conditions. While difficult to learn, the flaka is considered easy to execute as long as the setup is right.
Get ready for takeoff
Heading slightly downwind, look for the back of a small piece of chop to jump off. Rake the sail back to wind up, but keep your body and weight forward.
Toss the sail
As quickly as you raked the sail back, unwind the sail and with your front hand throw the mast hard into the wind while jumping. Already begin looking upwind through the turn, and do not push with your back hand!
Rotate on the nose
After the nose hits the water, the flaka is the same as the second half of an upwind 360. Keep your head and body twisted into the direction of the turn.
Slide and guide
Look over your leading shoulder, and with your mast hand guide the rig through the final 180, keeping your clew arm in toward your body.
Sheet in, sail away
Transition your weight toward your back foot as you finish the last 90 degrees, and be ready for a pull from the rig as it powers back up.
Loading ...
How hard is it relative to a Vulcan, which I can't complete yet, but am trying…
…and legitimate commets and questions such as Cdn guy's above will be ignored. Keep trying folks.
Where does the leverage to move the board after you jump come from? I recently learned spock 540s and I remember getting the board to rotate in a vulcan took a long time to figure out … lots of timing and correct pull on the sail. In the picture above where the sailor leaves the water ( second picture) his sail is 90 degrees to the board and in the next frame, before the nose touches the water, his sail and board are lined up. Where did the mechanical advantage to move the board 90 degres come from? Did the sail get backwinded right after the first jump picture?
Thanks
Joeblo
hey, institute bing to ones new page moreover it looked strange except later than freshen everything displayed ok.
Ruth Nanda Anshen~ Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body so the family is the unit of society.