Over the last few years we’ve been playing around with foil boards for SUP foil surfing and wing surfing. Footstraps on foil boards are a personal thing and they are not essential, but they will offer the rider more control and the ability to pump the board onto the foil earlier. In this video we […]
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GOWERPRO
4 years ago
Good points raised …Takuma have footstrap inserts all the way down the deckpad …giving lots of flexibility of footstrap placement.
Interesting – the fanatic does feel like the footstraps are too far back – when trying to get into waves on the foil it feels like I want to trim further forward to get into the wave earlier (but cant). It doesn’t make such a difference / any difference when wingsurfing this board – probably because the trim backwards and forward is not so important as the whole mechanism for getting on the foil is different. When foil surfing it, I found it harder – I think on reflection this might have been because I was catching waves later and… Read more »
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Good points raised …Takuma have footstrap inserts all the way down the deckpad …giving lots of flexibility of footstrap placement.
Thats sounds ideal. Good to see some brands really thinking about making there products more user-friendly.
Interesting – the fanatic does feel like the footstraps are too far back – when trying to get into waves on the foil it feels like I want to trim further forward to get into the wave earlier (but cant). It doesn’t make such a difference / any difference when wingsurfing this board – probably because the trim backwards and forward is not so important as the whole mechanism for getting on the foil is different. When foil surfing it, I found it harder – I think on reflection this might have been because I was catching waves later and… Read more »