I like my wrist leash EXCEPT when it doesn't rotate after gibes etc. I've tried it loose and floppy, loose but not floppy, bare wrist, with wetsuit etc. It's never dependably always good . say 2 out of five times I'm flying one handed as I grab and manually rotate the wrist leash at my wrist - kinda kills the flow!I know some people are tying off their wing at the waist belt. But would rather not. But maybe I'll have to anyone have a tip on how to get the wrist leash working sweet almost if not always?

I wear an impact vest and attached the wing leash to the shoulder of the vest. Your hands are free, and managing the leash is easier. Leash can still get in the way but I believe less.

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wingsup said..
I wear an impact vest and attached the wing leash to the shoulder of the vest. Your hands are free, and managing the leash is easier. Leash can still get in the way but I believe less.

Nice idea! Never thought of attaching to the shoulder of my vest!

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wingsup said..
I wear an impact vest and attached the wing leash to the shoulder of the vest. Your hands are free, and managing the leash is easier. Leash can still get in the way but I believe less.

Great way to get it to wrap around your neck

Waist leash for the board and attach the wing leash to the waist leash is the best option. Hands free and you can release one or both easily.

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wingsup said..
I wear an impact vest and attached the wing leash to the shoulder of the vest. Your hands are free, and managing the leash is easier. Leash can still get in the way but I believe less.

Great way to get it to wrap around your neck

Waist leash for the board and attach the wing leash to the waist leash is the best option. Hands free and you can release one or both easily.

I have had over 100 session, so far my neck is intact. I do wear a Gath Hat Neo helmet. I find the leach on the shoulder and board leash on the waist make it so the leashes rarely tangle.

I use a coiled wrist leash for the wing and coiled waist leash for the board. All my leash problems stopped once I adopted these leashes. I don't find tangling a problem at all.

This guy replaced the direct connection of the leash with a loop of dyneema. Says it stops the leash sticking out. I haven't found that to be a problem.

The other day was trying to outrun an incoming front and in my haste put the wing leash on my wrist and not on my waist belt.
so much worse. Thing wrapped around my wrist, would he hung up on the inflate valves - was just painful all round.


so yeh what hilly said. Waist leash for board, attach wind to front of waist belt seems to be how most go and myself.

then again my son uses just a normal leg rope and attaches wing leash to wrist on his sinker prone.
horses for courses....

So if you have the leash attached to your waist belt, should it be shorter, longer or the same length as a wrist leash?

Well I just use the one that is supplied. If that doesn't work I suppose take or add some on. Must admit I had it in my wrist for a while as when I first started and put it on my waist - I got myself in all sorts Of tangled bother lol. But yeh now waist and all good. Had some high speed wipeouts today in waves and not an issue. Except when my board came through and clocked me fair square in the head lol.

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wingsup said..
I wear an impact vest and attached the wing leash to the shoulder of the vest. Your hands are free, and managing the leash is easier. Leash can still get in the way but I believe less.

Tried this on the water yesterday evening and it worked sweet thank you

hilly said..

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wingsup said..
I wear an impact vest and attached the wing leash to the shoulder of the vest. Your hands are free, and managing the leash is easier. Leash can still get in the way but I believe less.

Great way to get it to wrap around your neck

Waist leash for the board and attach the wing leash to the waist leash is the best option. Hands free and you can release one or both easily.

I thought about the waist belt and having both board and wing attached to it, but the one point of attachment to all my gear freaks me out a bit.

If somehow it comes undone, your board now has a power source all of its own and I would imagine will be much quicker than I can swim.

For example last weekend my wing leash ripped off my wrist, brand new (ppc) on the first day. Think by some freak accident the leash wrapped and caught the velcro and ripped it undone. Luckily someone caught the wing for me, but was a wakeup call, would have been in Trouble if it was the board as well. Now I tuck the wrist leash under my wetsuit sleave.

Pacey....
If both leashes are the same length, you increase the chances of wing and foil meeting....not good.
Maybe better in flat water to have long board leash, and short wing.
However, walking thru surf and whitewater, I've seen short board leash and long wing leash in Puerto Rico at surf riding spots.

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If somehow it comes undone, your board now has a power source all of its own and I would imagine will be much quicker than I can swim.

I have not tried this but i think the board and wing tied together might drift a lot slower than the board by itself.

The wing would be yanking the tail behind the mast,getting the board to yaw across wind&chop.

Board alone will line up straight downwind.
Just guessing though :)

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mcrt said..

If somehow it comes undone, your board now has a power source all of its own and I would imagine will be much quicker than I can swim.

I have not tried this but i think the board and wing tied together might drift a lot slower than the board by itself.

The wing would be yanking the tail behind the mast,getting the board to yaw across wind&chop.

Board alone will line up straight downwind.
Just guessing though :)

Yeah I don't know for sure either, but I do know that when I lost the wing last week It ended up a long way from me very quickly. Even if the board was slowing it down a lot, I still wouldn't want to place a bet I could catch it swimming... Maybe... Maybe not.

Can anyone suggest me one? A brand? I am new and do not want to make the wrong decision.

I attached one of the retractable leashes for the board to the back of a neoprene belt (pulled from a SUP waist harness) and then added an attachment point for an old naish kite leash for the wing. While I would never use a leash for the board when kiting, the retractable ones work brilliantly for a foil board. Also, the kite leash hangs in a way that it stays out of your line of sight when riding and wrist tangles are at a minimum. I'm traveling right now but could post a photo when I get home.