I have often heard that foot straps should be snug on the sides but loose on the top. I wear size 10.5 wide shoes but none of my foot straps feel snug on the side. Today on my Starboard Kode on the back strap I tried the front screw in the back of the front screw holes and the back screw in the middle of the back screw holes. It felt really good, I felt more connected with the board in jumps, and more confident. Anyone else doing this?

If you have the little plates in the footstrap try and rotate them so they are closer in without having to change footstrap width, I'm the complete opposite to you though, I have mine fully spaced apart and the plates rotated for more room and they are still too tight so If anyone has suggestions for making them wider than the inserts I'd appreciate advice

I measured the Kode and the standard distance for foot straps is 16 cm apart. In the row of 3 holes each hole is 2.5 cm apart, so using the middle hole at the back row and the back hole at the front row gives a distance of 13.5 cm. Probably a bit too tight, 14 cm would be better.

Ollie0110 said..
If you have the little plates in the footstrap try and rotate them so they are closer in without having to change footstrap width, I'm the complete opposite to you though, I have mine fully spaced apart and the plates rotated for more room and they are still too tight so If anyone has suggestions for making them wider than the inserts I'd appreciate advice

I found these online, will order some. Even so, only looks like it will narrow the foot straps by 2 mm each side, so not even 0.5 cm total. Any other brands that could narrow even more?

I have a JP single thruster 83, I have the foostraps on furthest apart and spacers on the more space way, got the issue of us16-17 feet so any strap seems tight apart from on the slalom boards.

Your straps being too tight could also be the thickness of the neoprene and stuff and how much they have been used. I recently updated from a more used set of JP straps to a less used but same type strap, while in theory it should feel tighter they feel like they have more space, probably because they are softer but it feels more like my foot is snug on the sides and stuff instead of just jammed into them, so that might be more of what you are looking for but I'm not 100% sure