I have a Fanatic Blast and I'm having a hard time tightening the footstraps. I think the fanatic system is probably similar to several other brands. The straps have a single bolt on each end, and each end has an anti-rotate plate. It's a plastic plate with a bunch of bumps/spikes around the screw hole that grab onto the board's foam deck. I've been really aggressive tightening the screws and the straps still rotate quite easily. I've never had a problem like this, I'm already applying way more torque than I've had to on other boards. Removing the straps indicate that the bumps/spikes aren't digging into the foam very much. One possible problem might be that the screw doesn't go through the anti rotate plate freely so while the screw is tightening in the board, the plate isn't necessarily being pressed down enough (similar to what can happen when screwing two wooden boards together without having a free running pilot hole in the top board).

This can't be rocket science but I don't want to mess with it too much for fear of rounding the philips head or stripping/damaging the threaded insert in the board. There must be a common set of steps that people use when installing straps like these, other than just putting the screw in and tightening the heck out of it.

thanks