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    Posted: 14 Jun 07 at 8:10am

Originally posted by Ross

I started tarting up my contender today and I'm keeping my "hose pipe" foot loops, but they are loose.

ross loose toestraps is part of the problem, you only want to get your toes in really, that way if any thing does go wrong you are thrown out of them!  So you need them tight enought to get just a little more then your toes in!
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When you say he was "hooked in" did you mean hooked into the foot loops or just into the trapeze bail?

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I started tarting up my contender today and I'm keeping my "hose pipe" foot loops, but they are loose.
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Trap wires snapping is horrible happened to me at weston,  But i would worry about being towed at 20 knotts with my foots stuck

 
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Originally posted by allanorton

Originally posted by turnturtle

I heard on the grapevine of a very good UK based contender sailor who did some nasty ankle damage courtesy of a footloop

If its Simon Mussell you're refering to, he told me he broke his ankle by falling on to his sail.

Bov wrecked his ankle when his trap wire snapped whilst hooked in ...

I think it is the injury I worry about most.
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Originally posted by turnturtle

I heard on the grapevine of a very good UK based contender sailor who did some nasty ankle damage courtesy of a footloop

If its Simon Mussell you're refering to, he told me he broke his ankle by falling on to his sail.
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I've only sailed with the footstraps I mentioned a couple of times (on an 800) but I didn't have any problems with them twisting around. If anything they were hard to twist with the velcro undone.
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Originally posted by MRJP BUZZ 585

On my mates cherub he has the velcro ones and when he first attched them they kept on slipping so now they are cable tied on so are adjustable but don't slip.

Nothing worse than getting the kite up to find the footloops upside down  

Depends what and where you are sailing i wouldnt want to get kite up in anything more then 15 knots in heavy chop on the 14 without foot loops?!?
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On my mates cherub he has the velcro ones and when he first attched them they kept on slipping so now they are cable tied on so are adjustable but don't slip.

Nothing worse than getting the kite up to find the footloops upside down  
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