twin tips with out handles

blireef · Since 31 Aug 2009 37 Posts

I didn't say you have to have handles on your board. Do as you will, it just makes it very hard to carry the board back to someone. I can see from the posts that most of the respondents are not people who lose their boards and need them returned to them. This post is not directed to experts but to people just starting who can't get back to their boards.. Yes skim boards and surfboards are hard to carry to but surfboards blow downwind much faster than twintips.

shred_da_gorge · Tue Sep 01, 09 10:31 am

Speaking of board rescues, and hoping not to hijack the thread (should I start anew?), but what is a good technique? I found a board in really choppy water Sunday and had a hard time grabbing it by the footstraps on the way by. Then I tried to water start while carrying it and couldn't do it one-handed, so put my kite leash on its attachment rope (just happened that it had one) and towed it in. Probably wouldn't have opted for that if I wasn't wearing a helmet, by the way, which I don't always wear, but it kept catching and I was imagining it shooting out of the water at my back any minute.

jperry · Since 07 Nov 2008 190 Posts Stoked

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!! Seriously??

Bettyboarder · Tue Sep 01, 09 11:23 am

Ha shread I did the same thing but put the leash through the foot strap on Sat....the board kept flying out of the water behind me...I just keep thinking dont slow down or it's going to fly up and knock you out.

I was thinking maybe it would of been better to try to pick it up while I was already riding?

pkh · Since 27 Feb 2005 6549 Posts Couve / Hood Honored Founder

To do a board rescue, slide your stopper ball down almost all the way, then you can pivot off the stopper and fly the kite one handed with the other hand holding the board.

Its also good to know how to do downloops to water start, that will give you more power and be easier to execute with one hand.

Kodiak · Since 01 Aug 2005 1114 Posts Slidey

Or just put the board under your arm and fly the kite.

Chooch · Tue Sep 01, 09 12:24 pm

Put the board across your body above your bar. It will rest on your bar and lines and you can fly the kite with both hands

forrest · Tue Sep 01, 09 1:03 pm

lube the board up and shove up your... Just kidding. I was just poking fun at everyone with my comment earlier.

Move your stopper ball down and place the board across my lap, dive the kite, then grab the board before it falls off once I start riding.

shred_da_gorge · Tue Sep 01, 09 3:48 pm

Thanks for the advice! Chooch, that probably would have worked. Forrest, I'm too uncoordinated to catch it (plus I'd left my lube at home ;). Too rough and gusty to either grab the board on the way by or waterstart with one hand (this was San Fran bay in the channel, can get gnarly, which is why I wound up retrieving three boards before day's end, one completely lost).

Newbies, practice dragging upwind! Lean back and drive your shoulder and arm into the water like a rudder, dig deep but keep your face up, and just troll back and forth in a small enough sweep until you pass your board below/next to you. Move the kite into the upper part of the window and power up one-handed. Lift weights on your own if it's too hard. If you keep your eyes fixed on your board while you're dragging you'll never get to it; go past it instead.