This may seem like a dumb question since I've been kiting for a couple of years but I've recently changed boards with the bindings set closer together than I'm normally used to. They were set like that in the shop and I thought I'd leave them that way. It's taking a bit of getting used to but that may be because the board is 5cm smaller than the previous one.

Should they be the same as settings on a wakeboard? Is there an optimum setting (e.g shoulder width, past shoulder width) or is it just preference?

I'm 59kgs, 164 cms

Thanks for your advice.

Coming from a snowboarding background I set my bindings as wide a part as possible on any board (water or snow) that I own and it makes a lot of difference for me - partciularly in shifting pressue to the nose/tail of the board and in executing rotations.

That said, I'm sure there's a limit to how wide you should go, but at 6'4 I have a pretty wide stance naturally and haven't found it.