Heavy air tacking:

I got Rick’s tacking video a few weeks ago and it’s helped our tacking a bunch in the 14 and, now that Summer has started, in the 16. I liked the part about ‘flying’ the jib through the tack but I can’t make it work in heavy air ( as in Rehoboth last weekend). Do you need to do a true backwind in traveler down-raked back conditions? Am I missing something?
The problem is that when we try it in windy conditions we get stuck too close to the wind and can’t bear off onto the new tack.