Rossi,
I have days when I have a 100% hit rate on vulcans/spocks/OH spocks, but then a few days later I'll have a day when I can't do a darn thing right.

The only difference I can see is that the wind is stronger. Although I'll be on a smaller sail, my entry speeds/spins are quicker than I'm used to.

How do you adjust for that? Is it purely practice, should I be managing my entry speeds better or is an equipment change required?
Cheers
Rich

Hey Rich,

Hmm... difficult to say without having photos or videos of your good moves and also crashes in higher winds...

What board are you using? Are you overpowered mostly when you crash a lot?

Of course it is more difficult if you are a lot faster and there's bigger chop... when powered up on small sails and smaller boards, usually people tend to jump too high and don't look for where they land.

Jumping too high means the landing is harder and you'd need to lean more forward to stop the tail from sinking, also if you go too high and put the same energy into getting the rotation as in light winds, you can easily overrotate the vulcan in the air and therefore can't land properly or continue sliding into a spock...

If you don't look for where you will be landing already before the take off, you easily land in some big chop or so... the problem with that is that you are landing with your body facing away from the chop, looking at the sail mostly, so you can't see when you will really set down...
For example, setting down on a big chop lets you land earlier then you anticipated, and you don't have the right position to land yet probably. If you "fall" in between two bigger "waves/chops", you land later then anticipated mostly overrrotated and maybe sinking the tail...

Bottom line: Check for a more flat spot, or a place with very structured chop for your vulcans/spocks in higher winds. There's always some flatter spots in between. Also take a mini chop to take off from (if you take a big chop in stronger winds you go too high).

Other than that, keep practising

All the best
Rossi

Thanks, looking for flat water has sorted them out, especially in stronger winds.

Great!!

Can you do Grubbies already? have you tried? - should be easy now that you can do spocks

Also try Clew-first Spocks as the next step maybe...