Funkcije disciplin?

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Hi Matthias,

Do the different disciplines actually have any other function besides purely visual marking of the sessions?

When I switch from Freeride to Foil, for example, the glide ratio doesn’t change. Is that because the same glide threshold is stored here? There has already been a request for this elsewhere.

It would also be great if there were a statistical evaluation by discipline like there is for equipment. If there is one, I haven’t discovered it yet?

Best regards
Thomas

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Hello Thomas,

Thank you for the feedback.

The disciplines serve primarily for visual purposes, but mainly for 3 functions.

  1. To remind you whether you were in the waves or heating in flat water, or doing slalom, etc. This is potentially an important indicator to remind you why the jibes worked great that day or not at all, why your top speed was top or flop, etc.
  2. Each discipline has its own planing threshold, although many disciplines naturally overlap. With the next update, Race Foil (like Lightwind Foil already is) will no longer be identical to Freeride.
  3. For certain disciplines, certain calculations are done differently or not at all. For example, no jibe is counted during a Speed session. Based on experience, this is not of interest here, and everyone tries to avoid the jibe to save energy. Those who do it because there is also a jibe scoring in competitions can/should or must then choose Slalom as the discipline. This would be the correct discipline because it’s about speed on the straight and in the jibe.

An evaluation of the disciplines is unfortunately not yet available, but it is already being considered and should hopefully come this year.

I hope this helps.

Best regards,
Matthias

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Hello Matthias,

Great, thank you for the comprehensive response. I immediately switched my sessions to Lightwind-Foil and now the gliding times look much more accurate. Is it possible to look up the stored gliding thresholds for the different ones somewhere?

Best regards
Thomas

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Hello Thomas,

I’m glad to hear that.

The threshold for Lightwind Foil disciplines is around 10.8 km/h, while for all other windsurfing disciplines it’s around 18 km/h. For kites, buggies, or ice/snow sports, there’s only gliding or standing still.

Only for sailboats is the gliding threshold calculated separately for each class. This is because boats have significantly different hulls and, above all, lengths. While windsurfing boards also come in different lengths, the hull shape is the same, which is why length doesn’t make a noticeable difference. Longer boards don’t reach the gliding threshold earlier; they simply accelerate better toward it in light winds.

You can also see this when pumping a short board to get over the gliding threshold in light winds. If the wind isn’t enough to glide, you’re back out of the plane immediately, but in that case, the long boards aren’t planing either.

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V različici 2 je analiza po disciplinah. Disciplini lahko tudi presegajo meje športov.
Če se torej želite izvedeti, kolikokrat in koliko časa ste bili na valih – ne glede na to, ali ste uporabljali foil, SUP ali krilo – je to zdaj mogoče.

Podobno imajo discipline specifične lastnosti: na primer, podrobne statistike o vožnjah na valih dobite le pri disciplini “val”.