I'm putting a tail pad on hp Mal to help me get my back foot further back, where would it be placed?... I'm thinking the pad wedge in line with back of base of centre fin?
Select to expand quoteLoz79 said..
I'm putting a tail pad on hp Mal to help me get my back foot further back, where would it be placed?... I'm thinking the pad wedge in line with back of base of centre fin?
exactly what i did
except i placed the where the foot against wedge right/ in line over the centre of back fin
Select to expand quotelaceys lane said..Loz79 said..
I'm putting a tail pad on hp Mal to help me get my back foot further back, where would it be placed?... I'm thinking the pad wedge in line with back of base of centre fin?
exactly what i did
except i placed the where the foot against wedge right/ in line over the centre of back fin
Oh and wheres that board now Mr Lacey
Select to expand quoteMacaha said...laceys lane said..Loz79 said..
I'm putting a tail pad on hp Mal to help me get my back foot further back, where would it be placed?... I'm thinking the pad wedge in line with back of base of centre fin?
exactly what i did
except i placed the where the foot against wedge right/ in line over the centre of back fin
Oh and wheres that board now Mr Lacey
Its all your fault
Sacrilege!!! 
A tail pad on a mal!! Don't do it!!
Take yourself outside and slap yourself!!!!
If you are already riding that board I would spend a good part of your next session or two focussing on where that back foot goes and how the board responds. Jump up and have a look exactly where it is and get a feel for it. Next wave move it a few inches etc. And back and forth. Try and find that sweet spot. Some boards they are big and others small. I imagine with yr longboard you will have more room for error. Once you get it sorted stick your pad there. I like to put my pad just a fraction behind the sweet spot so when I get up I just whack my foot straight into the raised part and that gives me my exact position to start with. I do tend to shift my back foot around even on my shortly so you want to make sure that you do not get the pad too far forward.
Select to expand quoteTed the Kiwi said..
If you are already riding that board I would spend a good part of your next session or two focussing on where that back foot goes and how the board responds. Jump up and have a look exactly where it is and get a feel for it. Next wave move it a few inches etc. And back and forth. Try and find that sweet spot. Some boards they are big and others small. I imagine with yr longboard you will have more room for error. Once you get it sorted stick your pad there. I like to put my pad just a fraction behind the sweet spot so when I get up I just whack my foot straight into the raised part and that gives me my exact position to start with. I do tend to shift my back foot around even on my shortly so you want to make sure that you do not get the pad too far forward.
Scotty Ted basically said whack a tail pad on
Select to expand quoteMacaha said...Ted the Kiwi said..
If you are already riding that board I would spend a good part of your next session or two focussing on where that back foot goes and how the board responds. Jump up and have a look exactly where it is and get a feel for it. Next wave move it a few inches etc. And back and forth. Try and find that sweet spot. Some boards they are big and others small. I imagine with yr longboard you will have more room for error. Once you get it sorted stick your pad there. I like to put my pad just a fraction behind the sweet spot so when I get up I just whack my foot straight into the raised part and that gives me my exact position to start with. I do tend to shift my back foot around even on my shortly so you want to make sure that you do not get the pad too far forward.
Scotty Ted basically said whack a tail pad on
I keep telling everyone ted is the new simondo but nobody believes me.
Maybe this little exercise in wordsmithing by ted hemingway will see the truth that is out there
I don't like tail pads. If you are up and your board feels tight, move back. Longboard, shortboard or weird board it doesn't matter. If you are on the tail and the board still feels stiff, play with the fin type or placement.
I don't like how they look or how they feel underfoot. Just learn to move your foot back. It's a longboard - you should probably be moving about anyway.
^^^ Yeah I agree. I think for a shortboard a grips fine because your feet are mostly planted but on a longboard you tend to move around . Cant really see the value in it.
+1 here as well. Had a HP mal with tailpad on it when I bought it. Its gone. It just feels...wrong.
Had one for about a year on the allrounder, only put it there because I kept rubbing away the wax with my big toe.i got rid of it and learnt to paddle differently because while I used it, the turns never felt the same.
the nose didn't seem to whip around quite as quickly.
Thanks for the advice guys, i may hang off for a while n see how i go. I seem to get too far forward with all my boards as i stand up and just thought something to feel as a reference may help me to get back a little...
Hey Loz, I'm with you. I like a tail pad on a longer HP board. I too tend to surf a little forward and I liked having a tailpad on the HP 9'1 i recently sold. I would often be a little forward as i went through the sections of a wave then when I flew out onto the fat wall of the wave I found it really useful to be able to feel with my foot whether I was back enough. I often thought I was, but i wasn't, so i'd put the foot back further, feel the pad, feel confident and wah-hey. It worked for me. I wouldn't go one on a gorgeous old school log, but on the HP? Hell yes, if you wanna. 
I was not endorsing a tail pad on the LB just how I would go about placing one ! Tough crowd
I only use tail pads on my smallest board these days. The step-up and semi-gun are pure wax jobs (love the racing stripe ) as is the 10 footer - which is on route as we speak to the new home
World champ Harley Ingleby has been known to use them.
World champ Chelsea Williams, too. Think she rides for Classic Malibu these days...
Even some of Mac's best mates...
Chelsea Williams is the current world champion.....
I had one on my hp,it came off....I'm not bothered. I found on a board that big I tended not feel it anyway. I was too busy concentrating on stopping my arms flailing about
Select to expand quoteMacaha said...
Only a kook would put one on hey Lacey ??
Gee that post above put you back in your place didnt mac
For my it was if I put my back foot 'there' I was in the right spot to jam a turn.
Nothing more, nothing less
Select to expand quotelaceys lane said..Macaha said...
Only a kook would put one on hey Lacey ??
Gee that post above put you back in your place didnt mac
For my it was if I put my back foot 'there' I was in the right spot to jam a turn.
Nothing more, nothing less
Some people are just too serious Lacey
Select to expand quoteMacaha said...laceys lane said..Macaha said...
Only a kook would put one on hey Lacey ??
Gee that post above put you back in your place didnt mac
For my it was if I put my back foot 'there' I was in the right spot to jam a turn.
Nothing more, nothing less
Some people are just too serious Lacey
Serious. Im laughing
Select to expand quotesmh said..
Where did it get serious ?
Nah somebody took offence to my kook joke above.
Select to expand quoteMacaha said...smh said..
Where did it get serious ?
Nah somebody took offence to my kook joke above.
Stop calling me names van Gough
Select to expand quoteMacaha said..
smh said..
Where did it get serious ?
Nah somebody took offence to my kook joke above.
Hope that's not how you interpreted my post Mac?
I'm only here for the laughs.
And the longboard lurv from the international brotherhood.
And pics of tail pads.
Select to expand quotewavelength said..
Macaha said..
smh said..
Where did it get serious ?
Nah somebody took offence to my kook joke above.
Hope that's not how you interpreted my post Mac?
I'm only here for the laughs.
And the longboard lurv from the international brotherhood.
And pics of tail pads.
no no no, mac thought he would scores some point off me and thought all the other crew would follow too.
but it back fired and now he's trying back pedal.
problem is the chain has fallen off the wheels
just
stick to art
Select to expand quotewavelength said..Macaha said..
smh said..
Where did it get serious ?
Nah somebody took offence to my kook joke above.
Hope that's not how you interpreted my post Mac?
I'm only here for the laughs.
And the longboard lurv from the international brotherhood.
And pics of tail pads.
Nah mate,just having laugh at the fantom red thumber out there
