Attitude


Edit:
Seriously its been a while since I've even attempted chop hops hooked in. Recollecting my disasters, they usually were caused by the board's nose being upwind of the tail, landing too nose first and crashing, landing with the leeward rail digging in and crashing. In fact my chop hops usually resulted in crashes.
Probably the wrong attitude

I'm always hooked in too, well since I changed to carbon booms, although I often become uphooked during the jump. You can reaccelerate so much quicker. I just never do the nose first landings, which seem to bring disaster for me. Worst that tends to happen on tail landings is I'm pointing upwind too much so I risk spinout. Longer harness lines will also give you more time to react and reestablish your balance upon landing.

sboardcrazy said...

Does anyone stay hooked in for jumps & if so how do you avoid disaster?

long lines ie 28" and I'm 6'1"

I too jump hooked in when I probably should not. I use a surf seat (waist high hook but with seat straps) and 28 lines.
If you do land too nose first and square to the wind you can end up going over the handlebars. I did this just last week and cracked the nose of my board.

Jump into the wind,pull your feet up(level the board) ,bear off a little and extend your legs a bit to land.Keep an even pressure in the rig and weight on the lines.
Oh and don't let go

i'm surprised so many people stay hooked in, my jumps are not very big but i am never hooked in when i land even though i take off hooked in.
I was suprised when I first heard of it but if i can do it it will be great.Usually when i unhook to set up I lose speed & then if Im really powered up I lack strength & Im exhausted before I even hit the air so I don't have the energy to try & pull the board up etc.Im hoping if I can stay hooked in I can use my energy for technique.. though I'm not keen on the idea of getting it wrong & going over the handlebars etc.. Im glad to hear that a lot of people seem to unhook anyway in the air although having a seat harness might make that less likely..?

With the crap I usually get to sail in its impossible to stay on the water too long anyway so staying hooked in is pretty normal (or just lazy). The faster your going, the further you need to be scanning ahead to be ready for whats coming.

Tried it & Ill be jumping unhooked from now on..Went out yesterday in 25kt + S .I did one little one hooked in & I noticed that I was unhooked when i landed so i thought Ok thats safe..Lets go for it.. I was grossly overpowered & must have got the rig a bit too far forward & catapulted a twisted nastily hooked in one .BAD whiplash very painful & not good for an already stuffed neck..I had a system rigged with buckles to keep my buoyancy vest connected to my seat harness so it wouldnt ride up & it ripped the large plastic buckle in half & broke the zip..I suppose Im lucky something gave or it would have been worse..Too old for these shenanigans..

Going back to my inneficient unhooked style..Mind you other than that it was a great sail & i did get at least one good jump ( unhooked ! )

s-crazy - Know your pain. I've stopped doing hooked in jumps because of the carnage when it goes wrong and the number of booms I'm going through.

At the moment my jumps have taken a major turn for the worse. I loose my board trim, can't get the timing for the chop-hop to work so well and can't 'float' properly. I have got a few to work properly though so I will perservere. I think that it's very much a matter of timing and technique. It's not as if you need to be unhooked for long and only seems to be an arm-killer when you muck up the unhook and loose too much board speed.

Still think that hooked-in jumps are a good skill to have, and I'll probably go back to smaller ones when I can afford a carbon boom. I suggest that you may want to give them another try when you're not 'grossly overpowered'. - A bad idea when you're trying something new that involves connecting yourself to an airborne sail

i normally stay hooked in. Sometimes the strap falls out of the hook but mostly not. I just put alot of effort into landing the board pretty well...

I'm a bit of a beefcake at 90kg too so the boom should give way before my back does... with a bit of luck... and pain... and money.... mmmm

Heal up soon!

I unhook whenever the "chop" looks more like a "ramp". At the end of the day a jump is not worth your boom or board repairs.