sailboat racing terms

In sailboat racing, what is “Banging a corner”?

I have heard this term before but don’t know its meaning. I think it has to do with when you round a mark.

Banging a corner is where you only tack once up the whole beat.

So when you go off a start line and keep going untill you reach the far layline, then tack, you have banged a corner because you have left it to chance and not tacked on any shifts ect.

sailboat racing terms AMAZON PRODUCTS BELOW

Sailing: Points of sail, Hull (watercraft), Sailboat, Glossary of nautical terms, International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, Racing Rules of Sailing, Catboat, Sloop, Catamaran £34.85 …