Well, I’ve located the absolute best place to put my leash attachment so that it ensures tombstoning on every wave I eat it on. Dang. At least I’ve learned to hold my breath longer as I’m dragged 25+ yards to the beach/rocks.
I use the strap method so it will be easy to grind it off and move it, but where? I’m thinking that as a goofy foot, I should put on the right side very near the edge of the board. But this is not what I’ve seen on other boards.
I think that the guys on the Patagonia/ Point blank website have tried to address your problem. Those guys are pretty smart and may be on to something. http://www.pointblanks.com/performance.html good luck. Darren
I played around with this issue on my first couple of boards… I assumed that it should be next to my heel (left side for a regular footer) but it didn’t feel right. Turns out it seems more important that it’s on the same side as whatever foot you strap it on to… right foot, right side.
But if you’re getting dragged 25+ yards you’re either making your boards out of steel, or you’re riding longboards. Need we revisit the Longboard: No Cord discussion?
I like to put them in the middle. I always felt that, as a goofyfoot surfer like myself, if I put the leash on the right side next to my left heal that it would be pulled across my tail and create some kind of drag. I have no proof of this, though. I know I don’t like on the left so I put it in the middle. I do it mostly for piece of mind, aesthetics, and symmetry. I like to keep things simple.
Epoxy Shortboard, not steel but pretty strong. OK, let’s just say “dragged much longer than I would wish to be”. Eight foot faces? Plus or minus? Rocks everywhere. Anyway thanks for the input. I’m checking Google to find a picture of the BP plug.
I’m more curious about the best position fore and aft on the board. It seems to me that if you could put it on the edge of the tail it would not be able to tombstone.
I just got off the line Doug the Founder of butt plug. You can check it here: <a href="http://www.advancedsport.com/bpleash.htm" class="bb-url">http://www.advancedsport.com/bpleash.htm</a>
Well obviously: centering is a compromise towards both sides, it’s stronger because of the stringer and it looks better… I guess I was just assuming that we’re talking about some sort of swallow tail or it’s interfering with a removable fin system.
the closer to the end the better ;ike compare a spinner with a diving jig …on the end =no dive up some it dives and mimics a swimming fish… surfboards tombstone = dive…cure dive with end mount…case closed mind closed… I am allergic to leashes of all kinds …I wore a surgical tubing leash in 1972 for one wave and took it off…and never strapped myself to a board again…I do use leashes on my swim - bodysurf fins ambrose… learning and practicing swiming is liberating to the soul
I’m just curious, for those of you who advocate not using a leash, does your shore look like this? And for the no leash on longboard crew, I find it a helluwalot harder to hold on to a longboard in any kind of surf compared to a shortboard.
There is no god stated requirement that you HAVE to ride a longboard in rocky shored, dry reef surf.
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Try narrow, thin shortboard, and you can hold on.
I surfed from '66 to 70 without leashes, and that included over 100 days on the North Shore in Winter, and 4 fall/winters in OB, SF, using my 9’6" x 19 down to 5’6" twins.
Lost my board maybe 50 times total, but some of the days included OB over 13’ and Sunset and Pipe as big as it gets.
You can use your wrists, interlocking legs, side of face, roll with it, or any technique you decide might work.
Of course, I used a leash after the shock cord daze, still do.
strong boards dont get as many dings…the better you get the less you fall off …You ride the rocky spots after you dont fall off…if you plan to fall then you will consistantly fall…if you plan/justify falling long enough.you will develop excelent methods of jumping off,denial of responsibility for retrieving others boards ,taking off on clearly unmakable waves ,and crystal clear tangental quest for trajectories not consistant with the smooth transition from open ocean to malestrom to the calm of shore consistant with the Jack London poetic facination with the spectacle of the Kanaka of Hawaii …"The mature man cannot stay a hotdogger"Sam Reid…“if the australians had a contest ,the guy with the best wipe out would win…” Phil Edwards after not winning the world contest…a prophecy of the future dynamic that is the adaptation to surfing unsurfable spots by massive quantities of entry level surfers and aspiring technicians clearly the highest value of the leash is the fact that entry level surfers boards are not banging rocks and comrads in the surf… to answer your question directly no my shore line does not look like the pictured example…there are altenative locations that look better and worse than the picture…I choose to surf and practice surfing at spots that are conducive to advancing age continued participation in good health and stimulating to my imagination and creativity beyond the accepted norm so emotionally defended by the pedestrian conciousness…My friend dave has Just driven 20 miles in school drive time bumper to bumper traffic to check the spot with potential and now he’s on his way back to the archaic Black rock where I will meet him with the 12’ers and we will surf far offshore trying to make sense of these alternatives …I’m puttin; the 7’ paddle in the car too …just in case…ambrose…LOVE SURFING
She’s doing fine but she wanted to know why you want leaches attached to your surfboard? They kinda make the deck all slippery and stuff…maybe if you talked them into hanging on to the bottom that would be better.
my friend Fernando Cruz always asked for a leach I just thought it was that spanish was his native toungue and in conversational transcription it came up leach…kinda like jogurt…or kajak…jello kajak…ambrose …isnt Coral a ranching name?
“…isn’t Coral a ranching name?” Only at the Double R Ranch…If you herd seahorses, I suppose it would work too. On the other hand, I’ve herd that Coral lives kinda near a Renowned Ranch.
