What footholds you prefer/recommend?

[Sparkplug]

If the ski is rotating. And you positioned your weight correctly. You will stay planted to the bottom. It's physics really. Pole stays low. Elbows stay bent in line with the bars. And the body is kept extremely loose to flow with the ski. Maybe that's why I dont have a problem like all these other guys on short hulls. Cause I'm not hanging my fat ass off the back of it wondering why it rides nose high.

Foothold got big when these guys were chasing a backflip. Now to compete. Your skis weighs 220 pounds and has 200 horsepower. And people are spinning incredibly fast. They dont run foot holds. They run foot locks. And it's only a benefit for spins and rotation. It doesn't help any other aspect of riding. Quite the contrary. Thats why they only do spins and flips.

 

[Pro-pulsion]

I put in an old set of 24/7 that I've had kicking around for years. I havethe thick underpad and at first it was way too much, I couldn't get my feet into the holds. I trimmed out the turf and underpad only as far as the bridge of my feet, now my feet naturally want to incline down into the holds really keeping me locked in. I almost cut my hull up to put my other EME holds in until I did this to the turf, I like this feel and configuration much more than the EME holds now.

 

[E350]

Photos?

 

[Pro-pulsion]

Photos?

I will get you some tonight. I'm away from home for the day but will post as soon as I can.

 

[Pro-pulsion]

Photos?

 

[E350]

Thank you! So your footholds are about 1/2" lower than the field of your tray pad?
Does your heel go on the tray pad or the white area inside the foothold cut out?

 

[Pro-pulsion]

Actually that tray pad is the thick 24mm plus the thickness of the turf, I'm more like about 1-1/8" below the turf. I cut it so the lead in angle rests right about the arch of my foot and heels stay on the turf to help with the back on the harder impact landings, the white is just the tray which I will be adding turf to at some point just for the added traction, it really doesn't need it because I lock in them quite well but I just like having a finished tray lol

 

[Pro-pulsion]

There ya go, I wear a size 10 and this setup just works so well now. I soo much more prefer this over my EME holds. The EME holds are great for smooth contours and adding turf but once the underpad goes flat and compresses the space gets big quickly. This setup will always stay comfy even after the underpad compresses because they're just low enough on the wing portion that you still stay locked in. The EME's wing portion as nice as it is, is quite a bit higher and rolls out further which makes for a lot of extra room to develop. I always underpadded inside the EME holds because I pretty much had to if I wanted a solid fit for the season.