OK Kitcho

Toe side is my favourite stance believe it or not. I ride a Shinn Wave board with small nose fins. There are a couple of things you need to do to make toe side comfortable.

First up - getting to toe side. You can either carve around from your heel side in a transition or pop (slide) the board around to toe side while on the same tack, either way you may find you are heading downwind unpowered. Dive the kite to get a bit of power and then you need to lift the heel of your back foot. This is very important. And drive hard off the ball of your back foot, pushing it way behind you. Transfer a bit of weight to your front leg and lean out to get an edge. If your back foot heel is on the board it won't work. You should get a serious burn in the quad muscle of your back leg, if you don't you're not doing it right.

You'll need to be proficient at riding one handed as well because you will have dificulty holding the bar with your far side hand because your shoulders should be square on to where your going.

A sliding hook on your bar helps enormously (Jar Bar, see other threads on this topic). This will allow the pull of the kite to come from your hip and not from out front.
Work on this and it will click pretty soon. You may feel as though you're dancing on your toes but use your knees as shock absorders over the chop and you'll get to love the stance.

my 2c...
not sure what sort of "short directional" you're riding, but this works for my 5'2" choptop... take your back foot out of the rear strap and move it forward a bit.(sometimes a lot)... this will transfer your weight to the middle of the board and get it planing better. you can move it (your back foot) off centre to the "engaged rail" a bit to get more purchase on the rail. you want most of your weight on the front foot maybe 75/25 certainly more than 60/40... the rear strap position on a directional is generally the "slash and smash" position and is not where you want it for upwind riding. if you are getting dragged screaming downwind ie, well overpowered, put it back in the strap, edge hard and recover, then move back to the upwind position...
hope this helps...

Hey. I finally got back out there yesterday. Tried a twin tip instead of the mutant and went better. Also I was trying to fly the kite too far into the edge of the window on toeside. Yesterday I dropped it back a little and I was off and staying up wind. Didn't quite get back to the place I launched from but so much better. Only lost a bit of ground.

I had the toeside start down last season. I just lost it all over winter n my wife just had a baby at the start of this season. So no practice. I seem to be on the right track now but still welcome any tips.
Last night I got a twin tip, so no excuses for me now. Haha. Nobile 555 135x40

It's not my fault my board is fluro pink on the bottom. At least it's not white and blue. Hope you don't lose your new board too soon.
I'll bring my skirt next time. It will balance out the colours in my outfit. Ha
Let's go thurs

id like to see that too i think a nice pink skirt to match that board would go down a treat
hope we get out on the water soon
cheers