| Jibes :: |
| Step: |
A step jibe is just a jibe where you change your feet before flipping the sail. The advantage of this jibe is your weight shifts forward as you leave the jibe so you maintain speed. |
| Snap: |
A jibe performed by heading upwind and aggressively standing on the tail and whipping the board around using the tail as a pivot point. Sometimes called the Pivot Jibe or Slam Jibe. |
| Jump: |
A jibe performed by Jumping the board out of the water, and while midair, rotating it 180 degrees with your feet so it nose dives in the opposite direction with your feet on the deck. |
| Lay Down: Standard: |
A jibe performed by laying the sail horizontal to the water allowing the sail to depower while maintaining board speed. |
| Lay Down: 1-Hand: |
A Lay-Down-Jibe performed by taking the front hand off the boom while the sail is horizontal to the water. |
| Duck: Standard: |
Rotate the sail in the opposite direction of a standard jibe and duck under the sail as the clew passes thru the wind. |
| Duck: Double: |
Rotate the sail twice during a jibe. |
| Duck: Aerial: |
Jump the board in the air and duck the sail. |
| Duck: Backwind: |
Duck the sail heading across the wind then jibe the board. |
| Duck: Clew 1st: |
Performing a Duck-Jibe clew first. |
| Duck: Piroutte: |
Performing a Duck-Jibe while doing a pirouette in the middle of ducking the sail. Inventor: Remko De Weerd |
| Backwinded: |
Backwinding the sail first by stepping around the mast to the leeward side of the sail and then carving the board downwind into a jibe. |
| Ghost: |
A variation of the Duck-Jibe by switching the feet prior to ducking the sail and carving the board heel side. |
| Monkey: Standard: |
A classic maneuver performed by executing an early Duck-Jibe followed, seamlessly, by a Sail-Body-360 while maintaining the jibe arc. |
| Monkey: Reverse: |
The Monkey-Jibe, except the sail and body rotation are performed in the opposite direction. |
| Donkey: |
A jibe with the sailor stepping around the front of the mast when the board is heading dead down wind avoiding sail rotation. |
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