Aloha its Robert Stehlik with blue planet surf today's video is going to be all about leash
strings how to attach them to your board it seems like a really simple thing but it's important to
do it right because the leash string is often responsible for leash failure if you ever add
leash failure you know that swimming after the board especially in a rocky shoreline or
losing your board way offshore in a downwind or something like that is definitely not a pleasant
thing so you want to make sure that leash is probably attached to your board and I'm going
to show you a few little hacks and the proper way to do it and it's pretty simple but it can it can
make a difference a lot of times the leash plug has a sharp edge that can cause your leash line
to fray so if you notice your leash line fraying or getting worn out always replace it before it
fails so most leashes come with a leash string it's already has a tie in it usually so it's
attached to the leash you just take it off from the velcro and then I've seen people untie the
knot put a single string through the leash plug and then tie it again so that's one way to do it
but you only have one one piece of rope going around the leash plug so a better way to do it
which also loops two strings around the leash plug which is a little bit stronger is to kind
of push the leash string together make a point and keep the knot in it a thread it through the
underneath the leash plug and then pull it up and then one way to pull it tight is just to put the
knot through the loop and then pull it tight what I don't like about this method is that you have
a knot at the top now if you put the leash over that not that knots going to kind of spread out
the velcro and it's not going to let the velcro adhere properly to each other it can cause the
velcro to fail and when it when it pulls tight it's very difficult to get that leash back off
the way I like to do it is to loop the Rope underneath the knot and then pull it tight so
the knot gets pulled down into the leash plug that way you have the loop without a knot in
it so it's easy if it's it attached the leash to it and also you have the knot at the bottom so if
you have to ever take that leash string out you can just pull on the knot and comes out pretty
easily a blue planet we like to use 600 pound test strength spectral line which is basically
made for kite surfing as abrasion-resistant has I could shield around the inside inside
is made of spectra which is very strong you know a 600 pound test strength is plenty strong so as
long as you tie it properly and so on it's a very strong leash line and I find it easier to thread
through the leash plugs when tying it not into the spectra line I like to leave about half an
inch or 3/4 of an inch of line sticking out past the knot because sometimes when the knot tightens
when you when it gets pulled really hard and the knots not fully tighten it'll pull the
line through the knot and you don't want that to happen obviously now on our butanna boards
we also have to leash plugs so in the case of two leash plugs you can make a loop through
both leash plugs that allows it to spread out the load like if you're in a big wave if it pulls on
the on the board it's not going to rip out two leash plugs at once usually if that happens a
you know a single leaf plug I've seen those get ripped out of the board but double leash plugs
as long as you apply it properly it's very strong is very unlikely that your board's gonna have the
leash plugs ripped out of it for me personally in bigger waves I just use two leash lines I use two
of those thin spectra lines and attach them both to the through both leash plugs one make one a
little bit longer than the other two is safer than one and you definitely don't want that at
least to come off in the middle of the ocean if you're doing a downwind ER or way outside on the
big set you know there's a lot of reasons why you don't want your leash string to fail so you want
to make sure the leash line is not too long if the leash line is too long the rail saver will
go past the rails and the leash line can actually get pulled through the rails on a big wave so you
want to make sure that the leash line is short enough so the rail saver which is that nylon
part of nearly SH is on the rail to protect it I hope you like this video about leash line hacks
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