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Are foiling half-straps practical on windsurfing board?
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isobars



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 23, 2022 1:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What attracted you to the Dakine? I threw the dice and got a pair of Slingshots, but haven't tried them yet. I plan to bolt them to a board and see how that feels on the lawn, but I'll have nothing to compare them to even then

Every time I've felt a knee or ankle was about to explode, it was because a foot got hung in a strap. That's one reason I don't mind sailing barefooted until the water drops to 45 degrees.
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GarryW



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 24, 2022 11:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was leaning towards the Dakine because it has the most surface area.
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dllee



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 24, 2022 12:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good for locating foot placement.
Don't try jumping.
Easy out.
Can break easily also.
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isobars



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 7:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dllee wrote:
Don't try jumping.
Can break easily also.

Oops! Both of those are deal-breakers.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 25, 2022 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't jump, because landing retention in not secure.
Fragile...I broke both mine, but one was stacking a wing board atop.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 8:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds like my plan should be to put half-straps on the front and a (single) footstrap in the back.
• I can run the back strap much looser than the front straps for easier entry and exit. My forces on it are usually aft or upwards rather than forward ... just what half-straps are intended for.

• It's the front straps that want to trap my foot and threaten injury.

• Crashing, beam and broad reaching in chop, and jumping tend to drive my archless front foot too far into its strap.

• I've landed many jumps with my front foot out, because the back foot in its strap provides most of my pitch, roll, and steering control. When my back foot comes out in mid-air, however, I bail or land and collapse to protect my front ankle.

I can avoid crushing straps during transport, but if half-straps can break from just being stepped on offshore, no thanks.
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cgoudie1



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 01, 2022 11:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Mike,

Take this for what it's worth which isn't experience driven.
Having one foot in a full strap and one foot in a half strap seems
very risky to the strapped leg to me. My reasoning is based on
Snowboarding vs Skiing. Snowboarders (generally) don't have acute issues
with their knees (or hips), because both legs are planted and remain
essentially the same direction in the same plane (like a windsurf board).
Skiers on the other hand can have independent rotational forces applied to
each leg. You can see where that could lead. The times I've
come the closest to hip or knee injury on a windsurf board were when
one of my feet, but not the other, came out of a footstrap. Lots of potential
there for soft (ligament or tendon) tissue injury.

Maybe 2 half straps would be safer during recovery.

.02

-Craig


isobars wrote:
Sounds like my plan should be to put half-straps on the front and a (single) footstrap in the back.
• I can run the back strap much looser than the front straps for easier entry and exit. My forces on it are usually aft or upwards rather than forward ... just what half-straps are intended for.

• It's the front straps that want to trap my foot and threaten injury.

• Crashing, beam and broad reaching in chop, and jumping tend to drive my archless front foot too far into its strap.

• I've landed many jumps with my front foot out, because the back foot in its strap provides most of my pitch, roll, and steering control. When my back foot comes out in mid-air, however, I bail or land and collapse to protect my front ankle.

I can avoid crushing straps during transport, but if half-straps can break from just being stepped on offshore, no thanks.
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