Great topic I recently purchased a slalom board and notice it a lot now. I guess its technique that I've gotten away with on my freeride boards

What technique are you using to bear away? I find different boards need a different technique (especially the wide ones) and it takes a while to learn what works with your board.
I suspect you may be pointing your toes too much.

Windxtasy said..

What technique are you using to bear away? I find different boards need a different technique (especially the wide ones) and it takes a while to learn what works with your board.
I suspect you may be pointing your toes too much.

I don't know I just do it..
It's a narrower board ( 95ltre Tabou rocket 58 cms wide ) but I have been sailing the 75cm wide one a lot lately in marginal winds..It wasn't as I was bearing away but rather as I was on course ( I don't think I was bearing away anymore?) It wasn't that deep either. Here's a pic of where I think it happened..

Bender said..

IMHO i think the nose of the board is too low to the water, Try raising you boom a bit or moving the the masrt base back a bit, This will bring the nose up and free the rails from catching.

Thanks I'll try that.. Actually I noticed later the boom had slipped to the bottom of the cutout.. I wonder how much earlier that had happened.. Maybe that caused it!
I'm going to post another topic on the mystic venom boom I have as it has a join that separates when clamped and I'm not sure if that is it's design or a flaw ( only noticed it lately..).
I also occasionally catch a rail entering a gybe and crash. It doesn't happen very often and in short sharper chop.. I thought it might be bad technique - too sharp a foot pressure to initiate or not enough mast base pressure but could that be caused by too much board in the water? I usually lower the boom a few cms if I'm in overpowering choppy conditions..