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A great introduction on how to use your wind shadow to cover someone, and how to escape a cover without losing too much ground. We introduce a new wind shadow feature in the raceQs' replay that changes size with the speed of the wind. The wind shadows project with the apparent wind angle, and add a whole new dimension to the 3D replays.  

Direct download: podcast22ShadowCovers.mp4
Category:general -- posted at: 3:08am EDT

The VMG polar charts in raceQs are a great tool to evaluate how quickly you complete and recover from your tacks. The VMG overlay is visible in “match mode”, and tracks your progress through the tack on a polar chart with the true wind angle as the vertical axis, shows your course as the angle of the vector, and your speed as the length of the vector. Each second, a colored dot indicating your VMG appears on the chart, showing your VMG for that last two minutes in a color-coded cloud.  

Direct download: Podcast21VMGChart.mp4
Category:general -- posted at: 11:13pm EDT

This podcast goes over the six gadgets in the raceQs replay dashboard: VMG, Course Over Ground, Speed Over Ground, Drift, Compass Heading, and Heel. The raceQs' phone app records data every second. After the replay is uploaded to the website, you can watch the replay and see your performance data displayed as a color coded histograms showing the last two minutes. A glance at the histogram color distribution makes it easy to evaluate your race performance.

Direct download: Podcast20-Dashboard2.0.mp4
Category:general -- posted at: 2:57pm EDT

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