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Footstraps or No Footstraps
- Thread starter Kaser1
- Start date
Today I was able to get the foil engaged by lifting board with strap once I landed.
Maybe with the strap I can learn to pull up board without strap using a different technique? We'll see.
Airs are nuts though, I've got more pics coming once the photog gets to sending this weekend. Easier to grab rail and be in control. Cant wait for bigger surf to push higher.
One of my strap base sticky mounts came off this morning and had to ride one in without strap to replace. Wow, what a difference now. I feel naked without the strap, less connected, less in control.
My carves now with strap, I'm really pushing and leaning more than before. Wingtips starting to breach, only getting better.
I used the front strap and it felt easier for pumpoint back out et to carve intothe up coming wave a you can lean harder. But waht I dont like is the take off, fiting the foot inside is so irratating sometimes.
I haven't tried to do airs, I'm afraid to get hurt, but those photos make me want to try !
I was talking with GP (old windsurfer) about my strap trials and errors. He takes me over to his car, pulls out his recently made strap, and I was stocked. Exactly what I was trying to do.
He cut a 3 inch wide strip of SUP deckpad by about 12 inches long, put a 2 inch strip of nylon webbing down the middle, and took another 12 x 3 strip of deckpad to sandwich the nylon webbing. Punched holes for screws and done. So f'ing simple I was like :grin:
I'll post up pics of the strap when I make this week.