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- taipei Taiwan
Saw few different thickness under pad from few RRP XFS I wander how thick is good for Flatwater freestyle XFS?
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How thick under pad for Flatwater Freestyle?
- Thread starter gdjetski
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- South Florida
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onlyFX-1
Jace Forest...BRAP!
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- Lake Travis,Texas
If you foothold is big enough than put 26mm top and bottom. I couldn't do that with my old BOB and the top of my feet paid the price
I finally figured out that I needed my holds so severely over-padded that I'd have to violently kick in. Once you're in, it takes a strong conscious effort to come back out. And because it is all padding, it's nice and comfortable.
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- South Florida
Me too.
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- taipei Taiwan
I have 10 mm underpad and top of footholds if I replace all the paddings to 26 mm what it will effect my riding?
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- the jetski grave yard
if you ride or used to ride a freak, no amount of padding is enough. freaks land brutally hard but we still love em.
JGringo
When in doubt, Throttle-out.
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- Lafayette, Louisiana
Shi!!!!ttt... I just loaded up the top of my WDK holds and only put 8mm underneath, but have a total of 32mm (1.25") on top!! I was way more worried about the top of my foot than the bottom...
You guys think this is not a good set-up? I still have to kick my feet in...
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Whatever works for you. But if you stop and think about it, the only place in the tray where you really really need the cushioning foam is wherever your feat are after an aerial....i.e., in the footholds. It makes zero sense to reduce the underpad there.
onlyFX-1
Jace Forest...BRAP!
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- Lake Travis,Texas
It is all a preference, and what the foothold will allow. I do know the grey padding of any thickness sucks, it will thin out and squish after not much ride time. The black stuff holds its shape. If the foothold is big enough than put 26mm black under padding top and bottom.
The best holds I have ever kicked into were on a superfreak with the black 26mm top and bottom. I couldn't even tell my foot was locked in because it was like 2 pillows pressing against my foot, but when I tried to pull out they were stuck in, it was AWESOME!!
And if you just ride flatwater, no need to pad the whole tray with the 26mm like the pic above, it just adds a lot of extra weight. Only pad the holds with the 26mm then do the rest with like 8mm black under padding.
Just my .02
The best holds I have ever kicked into were on a superfreak with the black 26mm top and bottom. I couldn't even tell my foot was locked in because it was like 2 pillows pressing against my foot, but when I tried to pull out they were stuck in, it was AWESOME!!
And if you just ride flatwater, no need to pad the whole tray with the 26mm like the pic above, it just adds a lot of extra weight. Only pad the holds with the 26mm then do the rest with like 8mm black under padding.
Just my .02
JGringo
When in doubt, Throttle-out.
- Location
- Lafayette, Louisiana
Fail. Completely did the opposite.
Any chance you have an example picture of this?
-Gringo
Joker
...chaos? Its Fair!
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- La Porte, Indiana
You can just do the opposite of what you did. The footholds will have like a mountain an the you sand down the edges to give a nice transition to the 8mm
onlyFX-1
Jace Forest...BRAP!
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- Lake Travis,Texas
Post number 44 in my build thread shows it:
http://www.x-h2o.com/threads/126074-2013-AM-Competition-Circus-SuperFreak-Build/page3
But you can see how big the freak holds are. If you have normal size holds then it may be too tight of a fit with 26mm top and bottom
http://www.x-h2o.com/threads/126074-2013-AM-Competition-Circus-SuperFreak-Build/page3
But you can see how big the freak holds are. If you have normal size holds then it may be too tight of a fit with 26mm top and bottom
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- Bakersfield
This is how i did mine
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- Lake Orion, Michigan
26mm black underpadding top and bottom...
had to switch from shoes with a thick sole to wrestling shoes but 100% worth.
brought riding to a whole new level of comfort.
had to switch from shoes with a thick sole to wrestling shoes but 100% worth.
brought riding to a whole new level of comfort.
nucleus_coolins
Does things to makes the do goods
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- Bay Area, California
Thanks for the info, I was also wondering this. Was thinking about shaving some padding out of the tray underneath my footholds, but now I will just switch from the thick soled converse high tops to some ultra minimalist high top wrestling shoe.
Thanks!
Thanks!