Taty is on 1-2m smaller sail and always a board size smaller; granted. A smaller sail has a much short boom length and so the time it takes you to flick your sail around in the gybe is much less, meaning you can catch the wind on the new tack much quicker than the guys on a bigger sail… A smaller board actually helps you with this also, as long as you enter the gybe with great speed and keep the momentum through the gybe and get the sail flick perfectly, you can squeeze through some gaps while the bigger guys are trying to pump and stopping their boards with the bigger sails’ weight.

Where I saw Taty make the biggest gains was OUT of the gybes… He just simply accelerated out of the corners quicker than everyone else, and I’m sure it’s to do with those reasons. That being said you need REALLY INCREDIBLE technique to get that to work!! Good work buddy