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Yachting Australia Corporate Partner
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Yachting Australia
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Level 4 - Advanced Shortboard Techniques
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Overview
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The holder of this certificate has become proficient on a sailboard that has no centreboard (wave or slalom). They will be capable of sailing to a level comparable to the Advanced Longboard certificate holder and should have an understanding of all rescue and sailing theory relevant to shorter boards. Other shortboard skills include rope and water starts, sailing in non-planing conditions and achieving an upwind goal.
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Outcomes
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You will be capable of sailing a short board in paining conditions on open waters, with at least a small wave.
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Pre-requisites
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Must have completed the Stronger Winds Certificate
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Where can I take the course?
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Please contact a Yachting Australia Training Centre or your nearest Sailing Club. Please ask them about our Yachting Australia Logbooks so that you can monitor your progress.
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What to do afterwards?
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Continue training in windsurfing to gain the Advanced Longboard Certificate or an Instructors Certificate
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SYLLABUS:
1. Launching, starting and landing
- Alternative launch methods in strong winds
- Beach starting in waves and coming ashore through waves
- Uphauling the shorter board
- Water starts from varying situations - in waves, in gusts and clew first
2. Sailing Techniques and Stance
- Comfortable stance whilst planing in footstraps
- Sailing upwind on the short board
- Jumping waves - nose and tail landings - chop hoppin
- Sailing on a wave - following the break, avoiding the close-out
- Developing speed and controlling excessive power
3. Manouevres
- The carve gybe - different arcs, timing the release of the rig, staying on the plane
- The duck gybe and slam gybe
- Tacking the shorter board
4. Rigging
- Rig selection and harness line adjustment for different conditions
- The latest in sail designs and materials
- Understanding the effect of mast stiffness
- The rigging of rotational camber-induced and other high-tech sails
- Specialist sails - tuning for speed, control or manoeuvrability
5. Rescue Techniques and Safety
- Emergency repairs
- Surviving in the surf - right of way in waves
- Self rescue on a shorter board
- Rescuing others using a short board
6. Sailing Theory
- Types of jumps and landings - the loop and the barrel roll
- Sail twist and spin out - theory and practice
- Apparent wind whilst sailing in waves
- Physical and mental preparation for high wind sailing
- Rules and tactics for the Slalom and Wavesailing contests
7. Sailing Conditions
- Waves - formations and patterns, rips, undertows and channels
- Implications of weather patterns to the shortboard sailor
- How different wind conditions affect the shortboard sailor at a surf beach
8. Equipment
- The design of course racing, slalom, wave and speed boards
- Custom design boards
- Fins - Wave, Slalom and Race
- The use of helmets in certain conditions
9. Other Aspects and Options
- The wave and slalom competition circuits
- One handed gybes, 360's and the latest wave manoeuvres
