noepoxy said..
I'd be more interested in watching a strapless wave wing foiling competition, it takes way more skill to ride a foil strapless IMO, keep the spinny flippy stuff for freestyle events. Also very jealous as at my local any wave will have 6-50 surfers sitting all through the lineup - and they are not even surfing just getting in the way!
I think you and I may be in the minority on this. I enjoy watching the surfing aspect of wave riding and if one was able to go off the lip and air without straps like surfing I'd be more interested. I'm actually also ok with the off the lip aerials holding the wing... what I don't really enjoy is the open face ollie spins nowhere near the breaking part of the wave. the little foil planing slides also are kinda fun. would be too hard to have two separate categories for straps/no straps, but perhaps the rules can be tweaked not to award tricks that have nothing to do with the wave
