speargun
14th March 2007, 07:37 AM
I'm asking about schlogging stance when you are on what I would consider a super-sinker! I am 100kg and mainly sail an 85litre board (Thommen x85) in some onshore wave but mostly bump and jump over 20 knots. When the wind doesn't cooperate which is very often due to gusty conditions I have developed a bit of a schlogging stance which is to hang almost like doing a chin-up right off the boom, this means I am almost kneeling on the board, not exactly kneeling but very close to it. I find I am able to keep things stable this way - the object being to get the weight off the feet and onto the mast base. But then I also find that sometimes I can just stand up from my kneeling position in the same wind and still carry on without the kneeling stance. I was curious if other people, say heavyweights or those on boards that won't come close to supporting your weight have adopted this sort of stance? Or is it just a waste of time and maybe I should learn another way of schlogging. Is it bad technique, do people do this? I don't see any body else doing this where I sail but then again most of them are on boards that are about equivalent or more than their body weight in litres of volume/kilos of body weight...