aeroegnr said..Sandman1221 said..
What is interesting, is Andy Brandt told me my forearm was getting sore because I was using my front am too much to hold boom when foiling. He wanted me to move harness lines forward to increase upwind angle and so they effectively became my front arm support-wise, takes some getting used to. Had a good session yesterday with the lines forward, but forearm was sore going into session so took some ibuprofen, afterwards felt just a little soreness in right forearm/elbow so iced it for 20 min. and then felt fine, and today my forearm/elbow is not sore at all even after using a screwdriver! Normally a screwdriver will set it off.
Can you shlogg hands-off the sail and in harness? I've been able to get my lines more balanced recently. Also, been able to commit more into the harness on the fin or foil. I used to cramp up my forearms all the time after a session, and I think it was because they were unbalanced and I wasn't fully weighting the harness.
Now it's mostly soreness if I have a very pump heavy session.
With the short forward lines I now unhook before coming down, and shlogg unhooked. Andy also got me using smaller sails, so was on a 5.8 yesterday in 8-11 with 10-11 knot gusts, normally would of been on 8.0 or 7.2. So shlogging with 5.8 takes less effort than 8.0, but need couple of pumps of 5.8 sail to get up every time, though that did not make my left arm sore, or make my right arm more sore than it was going into session.
With the 8.0 or 7.2 I would pump the foil, not the sail, to get up and thought that was good because my arm was already sore, and thought pumping sail would make it more sore, but as noted above holding boom with front arm was what was making arm sore.
Once up, hooked in and leaned out, using rear hand to sheet in as needed to maintain upwind angle and speed.
Best comeback ever .!!
It's OK if you don't hit the equipment on the way off.
