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I think another issue is booties.
Ken wears booties.
I don't 'cause I like more board feel and it feels like I can
ditch/slide my feet out easier without them. I wear them just to get
into the water than I clip them inside my vest and I feel it is alot
easier to get out of the straps.....though, sometimes, I still get stuck
and I have them set safely.
sounds of a toilet flushing........shit happens
Kirk out
"Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of
it again." - Johann W. von Goethe (1749-1932)
Ken Poulton wrote:
>
> > - In the meantime I think the best thing we can do for strap safety is
> > to use them as "toe" straps, not foot straps. You shouldn't be able to
> > stick your foot in farther than the ball of your foot.
>
> And yet, this is not enough. I had just tightened my straps to adjust
> for the booties I was wearing.
>
> I think you are safer if you train yourself to actively get your feet
> out of the straps when falling. I used to do this more. In recent
> years I have been in the bad habit of holding onto my booms in a fall,
> mainly so I wouldn't have to swim after my equipment. This had pulled
> my arms at awkward angles that could injure a shoulder if taken much
> further. At the same time, I was no longer yanking my feet out of the
> straps.
>
> Ken Poulton
> poulton@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis
>
> (Sounds of screams as Nazi bad guy is aged into dust by drinking from
> the false grail... followed by wind blowing and, finally, silence.)
> Guardian Knight: "He chose... poorly."
> -- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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