This will be the first reply of many mate.

It can be very, very bad. Like fractured skull bad. Like board embedded in other parts of your body bad.

These are the reasons leg ropes are very, very rare in kiting now days.

The masses are right. Go with them.

learn to body drag. It takes like 90seconds to get back to your board on average.

Also, search this forum for 'leg ropes', you'll soon get the picture.

Newby does not want a leg rope...

hey if they dont believe us... let the newbies get leg ropes !, they'l soon get the hint

thanks guys can body drag up wind ok but some times lose site of it
then think to my self were do they go

about 3/4 years ago at Unlucky Bay I had to step back helplessly as a guy went into an uncontrolled drag down the streak of a beach Unlucky Bay is.

He had an old directional attached by a legrope and his board was flailing behind him like a sword with three extra blades (Fins)
I had a split second where I might of been able to grab hold of him
but decided to step back - seing the way his board was following him if I had missed him I would of surely been cut in half by his board.

I had to watch him go by and his kite went round one of those pepermint trees. He ended up hanging about three feet off the ground out of the tree still hooked in but luckily un-injured

It was one of those moments that in a split second you have already prepared yourself to whitness something very disturbing thats about to happen - he was soooo lucky maybe thats were the place gets its name...

no leggies

Reel leashes are gay.

If you must use a leash,the Reel Leash is the only option.

Connect it to the board with a piece of webbing,under one of the fin screws. Burn a hole in the webbing,just big enough to fit the body of the screw. If the connection is put under major stress,it will pull free.

Heres an idea:

Use a loop of fishing line with a safe breaking strain,say,5 kilos as the connection point. If loaded up it will break. Should work ?

What you need a lease for Rich Rello, doesn't your board come back when you whistle for it??

if really keen on leashes, you can use those really little zip ties to connect the leash to the board. and if you only put it on lightly it comes off even easier

look, everyone used a leash until they got bashed or cut by their board a few times in the old days. be a man /woman and use the ignorance we had a couple of years ago to advantage to create a unique scar like many of us to advantage in pub betting comps.
yeooooow.

If you must have a leash, get a small metal ring attached to your harness and through that ring have 4 or so small zip ties. This is where you attach your board leash to one of them. In a big stack where the board dives under the water and loads up the tie will break. Any other small stacks the board will be right there with you no problems!!!

Use this method for ease of learning then after awhile when you are going up wind and more confident loose the leash!!!!

it all to easy!!!!

Get one of those huge extentable dog leashes, then reel it in when you need it trouble is it will trail behind you like 10m.

Im joking for all you crazy people who might flame me for this. sheesh you guys are impossible.