An extra layer of glass won't help much,my boards are triple layer 6oz on the top decks and on my strapped board i jump it just like my tt ,board is heel dented but is still solid as in the dent,you would have to reinforce under the glass and would add more weight,it's a bit of a tradeoff strength for weight,although any board is gonna heel dent with my 95kg landing on it constantly from a great height,haven't managed to break one yet though

thanks. Yeh I assumed when I bought the board that it's not the same durability as the normal structure, but it was much lighter and therefore weaker than what I expected. It's now like a normal fragile surfboard.

So therefore I was thinking about putting an extra layer of glass under the front foot. The front foot pad you mentioned is great, I have been using them since the beginning of my strapless career, and like them a lot. I only use wax for the grab area and I need to add that once in every 10-20 sets.

Would I ruin the board's qualities by putting a stripes of thin glass under the front heels or the structure?

about the construction:

I can tell that the area just in front of the back leg pad is soft, you can make a dent with your thumb even when not pressing too hard. The area of the front foot is fortunately a bit more solid so there is some difference in structure along the board.

Anyhow, I pushed really hard with my thumb on the front foot area and managed to make a smallish dent as well. Therefore I was thinking about that I will add a 40x10 cm stripe of glass on both sides where my heels would be when riding and landing from a jump. Then I put a deck pad over the front foot area. The only downside of the deck pad is that it hides part of the beautiful board.

The front pad area has a layer of divincell to strengthen the board but minimize weight, if you look hard you can see a darker area that's the divincell . I had a proto with full divincell deck but it did add some unwanted weight for the strapless version so they went with the footpad.

I am trying on my boards 15mm rear and front traction pads which will be made up with 2x layers, hard and normal pad.I hope this may help but i asume strapless ridding 15mm would not be suitable? I have a sample pad and looks good but soon will have new pads and hope it helps

OMG l would add a extra layer of glass right across the whole deck for added strength if you intend to pop little airs , mine has multiple stress fractures in front of back and front foot and am having it repaired...

I think there laying two extra layers of 4oz glass straight on top ...

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CarlBevo said...

If you can get used to it try using deck grip under your front foot, feels rank for 1 or 2 sessions but you soon learn to love it, i would never use wax for kite surfing again and more and more crew are crossong over to full deckgrip.

Hey Carl, where are you getting your front foot deckgrip?

I look for longboard or sup grip it's pretty exy most of the time but if you look around you can find some reasonable priced stuff some places sell it off the role you normally have to cut it to fit

Hi taxi

I feel your pain snapping or creasing a board is always sh!tty and I will try explain some things about the strapless tyrant - its a performance board and with performance as you would well know it comes at a sacrifice and that is always strength. The strapped tyrants / celeritas are a different construction and much tougher. You just like me have probably snapped surfboards in 1 foot surf but taken a multitude of 10 footers on the head and worse and not snapped or creased a board, its the roll of the dice

Surfboards just don't have the longevity that twin tips do thats probably why its only 30 days I know SS twin tips hold a one year warranty I would be surprised if any kiteboards company would replace a snapped surfboard unless there was a clear construction falt, just like your local shaper wouldn't warranty a surfboard you snapped or creased the second you walk out the door you would of felt the difference of the tyrant to any kiteboard the second you picked it up it feels exactly like a surfboard not a heavy pig. That's why it rode better than any production kiteboard on the market with their straps removed.

For reinforcing the front foot area i wait till the heel dints are in and put some 6oz pads there then 2x4oz over the whole mid section of the board. I squew the weave so its more like divincell, and most importantly use epoxy resin.