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E-book Title: High Wind Stance & Footstraps
Author: Burr Hazen
Book Description: High Wind Stance & Footstraps
Book nine of The Windsurfing Bible
Changes have occurred.
Besides the increased wind speed, you now have whitecaps, chop, and maybe some swells to play in. Compared to snow skiing, you've graduated from the bunny, through the intermediate, to the advanced slope. Ballplayers, you're in the big leagues. Water skiers, the tow boat is ten miles an hour faster, and you're on a slalom ski.
Which brings us to equipment-that changes too. If you aren't using the right stuff, high-wind sailing is a struggle. (The wrong adjustment of the right stuff makes for a struggle too. See Book 14, for rig, mast-track, and fin adjustment.) If you like a challenge, sail a beginner board in these conditions; it's like white-water rafting in a rowboat. Transition-boards (between 10 and 11 feet [305-336 cm]) aren't that great either; they're fine for sailing in a straight line, but turning is an adventure.
To make a broad generalization, you should be sailing a board not longer than 10 feet/305 cm (a short-board) without a centerboard and with footstraps. If you haven't put yours on yet, now's the time: high-wind sailing without footstraps is like snow skiing without bindings.
Footstraps
Footstraps and ski bindings have something else in common: adjustability. If the straps are adjusted too small, they're useless. If the straps are adjusted too large, they're dangerous.
Quick-what's the most common windsurfing injury after the bruise? If you guessed a damaged ego, your location's too high. If you guessed a sunburn, your location's too general. If you guessed a broken ankle, your location's on target. This happens when your foot is jammed so far in a strap, because the adjustment is too large, that it can't slip out when you fall forward-snap, rescue, hospital!
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