Looks all wrong but he rips. Maybe I should offset mine more it may help me turn like him
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I have also placed extra strap inserts to open more my stance compared to the "standard" of the feet on the stringer.
It helps tremendously on paddling strength and efficiency for takeoff on SUP foils, and a bit to make your shoulder face forward while foiling.
While foiling, you must get used to combined rock & rolling input to the board: pushing front feet down or up in turns will induce rolling as well as rocking. But you quickly get the hang of it. But I don't think it helps me while foiling, the gain for me is for the takeoff.
Stagger= more control, more power, especially strapless. You can't surf strapless...feet on center line. You would have no power over a wide front wing.
The need for a newbie to put feet on center, is the main reason newbies can't surf without straps....no leverage.
Stagger = more control more power can some one expansion ? I've been trying it hit feels sketchy as and out of balance ..
but heaps of crew do it
I think the blurry photo of Derek makes his stance look more off centre than it actually is but it definitely isn't straight down the centre line....The back foot strap on a JL is already over to the toe side rail if you're riding with your back foot square & as someone pointed out Derek's boards are very small so again it's exaggerated....
Actually it is not much different. Have to work on cranking it a bit harder. Apologies for the speed blur
I am personally a centre-line advocate. Ideally IMO you want the input from your foot to act directly on the centreline of the board. This may mean your straps are off-centre to achieve this, but I find if you're off centre it limits how hard you can trim fore and aft without side input/turn/wobble. The faster I ride the more important I find it to be centre-line.
Derek rips to no end (so do you Piros), so not sure if it's something he just started with and got used to. I always suggest you stand centre-line if you can.
My 2 cents worth.
JB
Yes I've noticed your always in the centre JB
I still feel u can turn pretty hard from the centre ....