Binding placement, just curious at everyones stance.

3MileBayWaker

When I first got my board, I had no idea where to place the bindings and at what degree. So I picked dead center on the holes and went duck foot at 15 degrees on both bindings, so riding switch wouldn't effect anything. My stance feels pretty comfortable but I am thinking maybe coming down to 12 degrees.

Now this is completely opposite of my snow board. I ride regular but have my lead foot at 15 degrees and trailing foot at 9 degrees. I also ride slightly tail heavy by 1 hole off center.

So just curious what others have their bindings dialed into placement wise. I'm also 6'3" and 200lbs, size 13 ( XXL) binding

DeloBoarder · Outlaw Joined: 18 Jun 2006 Posts: 131 City: Knoxville

I ride at 12 degrees both feet and I think one hole set wider than center on each side. This pretty much mimics what my snowboard setting is as well

colefooter · Posted: Apr 04, 2011 10:53 am Post subject:

I am 5' 10" and ride a 140 cm wakeboard right now. I am an advanced rider as well. I ride as wide of a stance as possible, as far ducked out as possible on pretty much any board I ride. So with you being that tall, I would definitely at least put the boots on as wide of a stance as possible and give it a try.

I have found that for poking out grabs and really anything that involves bending the knees a bunch to get closer to the board, having a very wide stance/ducked out seems to help.

Enygma · Soul Rider Joined: 26 Jul 2009 Posts: 356

colefooter · Posted: Apr 06, 2011 8:26 am Post subject:

JeffreyCH · Posted: Apr 06, 2011 9:29 am Post subject:

I ride with 15/-15 a little more then shoulder width. I tried running with my bindings out as far as they would go, wasn't terrible, but after long sets it made my hips hurt.

DeloBoarder · Outlaw Joined: 18 Jun 2006 Posts: 131 City: Knoxville

seems like if your natural landing stance isn't all the way out, then it would be kind of awkward landing with your feet that wide. I cannot, however, speak from experience because I don't ride with my bindings all the way out. Somebody should pitch the wedgie footbed idea that Ride Snowboards has been pushing really hard this last season to wake companies. Having that extra 2.5 to 3 degrees of footbed tilt might really appeal to people who prefer a really wide stance but aren't 8 feet tall or make a wider stance accessible to those with bad knees/hips/etc....just a thought Idea

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

ILoveButter · Newbie Joined: 08 Apr 2011 Posts: 5 City: Austin

I used to ride with my bindings around shoulder width and it felt fine, but last season I tried my bindings spaced out as far as they would go. (~12 deg ducked for both) It felt really weird at first, but I think it gave me a better board control once I got used to it. Try a couple different settings and go with what works best!

Benji Mac · Newbie Joined: 02 Mar 2011 Posts: 34 City: Okinawa, Japan

Benji Mac · Newbie Joined: 02 Mar 2011 Posts: 34 City: Okinawa, Japan

Sorry 3MileBayWaker, wasn't trying to threadjack... perhaps this will help you as well.

HHI Dave · Posted: May 02, 2011 3:25 pm Post subject:

6'3" here.

No matter what board I ride (Currently Lyman 143) I always move the bindings out to the farthest holes. My feet are ducked out symetrically, but I'm not sure of the angle in degrees. Its always just a matter of trial and error til I find my "sweet spot". Then I just make sure they're both the same. To me, a wakeboard should feel exactly the same whether riding regular or switch. The bindings should mirror each other. This is my preference. Yours may be different.

Chocoholic · Soul Rider Joined: 21 Feb 2009 Posts: 363 City: Dubai

My stance is as wide as I can get it, plus my bindings are ducked out quite a way - used to be 12/12 but my knees kept coming inwards, so dcking them out more has stopped this - plus it's a knee saver.

Obsessed · Criminal Joined: 22 Feb 2011 Posts: 74 City: Bahrain

I dont think what works for one person will necessarily work for another, even if theyre the same height.

Learnwake has a great video explaining binding placement. I never saw it that way until i watched it, being 6' I always had my bindings as wide as possible, and ducked at 18 degrees each. After watching Ive reduced it to 15 but still as wide apart. I wouldn't be able to explain fully whats in the video, but essentially it seems the wider your feet are apart, the less they need to be ducked out, but most importantly when youre standing in your bindings you should have free and quite wide movement with your knees and be able to point your knees in both directions and bend at the knee, this is so that when you land you can bend at the knee and absorb the landing, if youre ducked out too far, or too wide you will not be able to bend at the knee as well. thats probably very confusing but the video shows it well.

craZywakeboardererer · Criminal Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 69

i love this article.
http://wakeboardingmag.com/how-to/higher-learning-wakeboarding/2010/09/06/how-to-find-the-right-wakeboard-stance/

i'd happy refer anyone to this article who is asking about stance.
and it's shaun murray's reasoning so you know it's legit haha

3MileBayWaker · Posted: May 22, 2011 2:16 pm Post subject:

I was out yesterday and the water temps were only in the low 60's and with no wet suit they were very short runs. I finally removed the secondary fins from my board and the board felt soo squirrely. Most of the time the water conditions are semi rough where I board due to boat traffic and the large bodies of water. There is no where in NYS where you can ride down a river where its glass on windy days, everything is NO WAKE zone or 10mph. Home owners on the rivers have a thorne up their ass, cause even yesterday I passed a guys house who had a huge banner on his dock, then come running out with a megaphone yelling at me to slow down because my boat at 5-8mph throws a small wake.

I am going to try and push my bindings all the way out to the farthest holes and add another 5 degrees and see if this helps with making the board feel more predictable and like my snowboard. Maybe my stance is actually too narrow using the middle holes since I am considered quite tall at 6'3". No one every taught me how to wakeboard or what was right. Which is why I appreciate this forum being able to read up on things.

Thanks for the link to that article.