Hey guys this is Alex Pastor and today
I'm gonna let you know everything you need to know about boots.
So when it's a good time to start riding boots?
I get that question a lot of the time
and for me the most important thing
is that you can really control your kite
so you can set up your boots, you can let go your kite
at the same time you're tying up your boots so that would be a good
point to start and also when you wanna do tricks on boots you wanna do most of
the stuff unhooked because if you start doing hooked in tricks with boots it's a
little bit more risky because you most of the time you can catch an edge if you
fall so it would be a bit more painful
so
if you were to do most of hooked in
tricks maybe you prefer to ride straps
So how to get the right size for you
what I do is I try the boots first, you could get an idea without trying but if
you try it's much better. Boots should be as small as possible but without having
to flex your toes when you get your you foot in because they are made with the
material that's most of the time memory foam so they're gonna get bigger and
they're gonna adapt to your feet but if the boots are too big for that then your
feets gonna be moving at the end and it's not gonna be perfect so when you're
landing strong your feet could be slightly forward so yeah basically if you can get
your boots as tight as possible from the beginning it's gonna be much more
comfortable if you want to know what type of board you should ride I would
really recommend a board that has a lot of rocker something like the livewire we
have here or even the Airush apex from the range but I wouldn't ride
any beginner boards or very flex boards because if they don't have enough rocker
they're gonna spray a lot of water to your to your face so it's not gonna be
very comfortable about the stance that really depends on the person
when I say normally it's like the wider stance you have you're gonna have a bit
less pop but you're gonna land better so a narrower stance would get you a lot of pop
when it's gonna be a little harder to control yourself when you're
landing I usually go for middle stance about 178 or 180 so I go for 50
centimeters stance which is the same as my hands like this together so this is what
most people should get something in the middle not too narrow not too wide and
that you've worked very good for you okay so once we have our stance we're gonna
get that stance and we're gonna simulate landing so what we're gonna do is
basically fall down and I'm gonna see on what angle our knees are gonna go with our
current stance and this is basically how how much angle our feet are gonna have
average for what I said you know person of 180cm (tall) 50 centimetres we usually
go for like 30 32 degrees something like that not too much more and obviously if
you're taller and you have a same stance you're gonna have less angles so less
duck and if you're smaller you have wide stance then you're gonna need to
have more open feet yeah when we're riding boots we have way more support in
our landings so you're not gonna injure your ankle when you land your ankles
are going to stay in the same place your knees gonna stay in the same
place they're not gonna be twisting so yeah they're gonna give you a lot more
support more stability more control over the board you're gonna feel that the
board is more a part of you than it's like a separate thing so that's good if
you're going to go for big tricks the main thing we have to take care when
we're transitioning from straps to boots is when we're crashing we have to
anticipate the crash and instead of holding onto the bar and losing the board
and then going back to recover the board what we're gonna do is let go of the bar
so that way we're not doing a catapult and we're not getting our board
stuck on the water because this is the most painful part of it so we're thinking
that we're wakeboarding and just let go the bar that's why I always recommend to
do your tricks unhooked when you're riding boots
something else we need to know how to recover from crashes a lot of the times
if you have your legs behind you can just hook in and do like a jump and
then you can jump and just keep riding which of course that's the hardest way
at the beginning maybe what you want to do is hook in if your legs are behind
you help yourself with your hand you turn a little bit and that's how you
recover keep riding but yeah it's better you always keep
your boots and your feet and don't undo your boots again cause that's gonna take a
lot of time well guys thanks for watching if you have any more questions
or something you didn't quite understand please comment below and if you find
this content interesting please subscribe to the channel because there's
gonna be more interesting stuff coming thank you
No comments:
Post a Comment