Thanks for joining the Hplus Boot Program.
Shortly you'll be receiving your new gear. Before that happens I want to go over some things that will help you perform better out on the water
and go over unboxing your product. Before we do that let's go over some tools that you'll need.
To get into your box you'll need something sharp. I like to use a set of keys just to rip through the tape.
A box cutter will also do. You'll also need a screwdriver. We recommend a number 3 screwdriver to put your bindings on your board,
not a number 2 screwdriver. A number 3 screwdriver head is bigger and it grabs the head of the screw better.
A number 2 screwdriver can strip them out and it doesn't allow you to get the binding screws as tight as a number 3 screwdriver.
So make sure you use a number 3 screwdriver. You'll also need a tape measure.
We're going to use this to measure your old stance width and then transfer that to your new boots on your board.
Before we go over unboxing your product I want to talk about stance angles for a second.
I want to show you a simple way to find a good starting stance angle.
This can help you perform better out on the water and also help prevent injury.
What you can do is stand with your feet right underneath your shoulders, move each foot about an inch outward,
and then you'll want to do a full squat. As you squat lean your weight a little bit over your heels
and let your feet just kind of relax and as you get to the bottom of your squat your feet should kind of turn out.
Your knees and your legs should force your feet outward and they should just fall into a good stance angle.
Then stand up one more time and then do one more full squat and you'll see that your knees track better with your feet.
This is a great starting stance angle.
Now the reason this is important is because if you have bow legs where your legs kind of bow outward
or if you're not in need and your knees kind of, you know, bow inward, then if you have the wrong stance angle in respect to your leg type
you can injure yourself a lot more easily.
So if you're bow legged you're generally going to have a straighter forward less duck stance angle.
So duck stance is when your toes are angled outward like this, kind of like a duck stands on the ground.
So a good starting stance angle for most people is about 12 degrees ducked outward.
So if you're bow legged generally you're going to be a little less ducked or you can be.
You'll want to do that test that I told you about to find out where your knees track and where your feet fall into position.
But sometimes if someone's really bow legged they'll have a little bit straighter of a stance than someone who's not.
If someone's knock need they can have a little bit more duct of a stance because their knees kind of fall inward.
If you have the opposite stance than your leg type that's how you can injure yourself.
So make sure you do that test.
Figure out where your feet kind of fall into place.
Put that on your board.
Go out and ride if it feels comfortable.
That's great if not just adjust accordingly.
You might also want to stand in the mirror and look at your legs and see if you have generally straight legs
or if you're bow legged or knock need and then adjust your stance accordingly.
Next I want to talk about how to find an easy way to find your stance width.
So for this we're going to grab our tape measure and before you disassemble your board to put your new bindings on your board
I want to show you a way to measure to find the stance angle or stance width rather.
So grab your tape measure.
The way that I like to tell people to figure out their stance width is you measure from the center bolts
and then you add one side plate width.
Stance widths are measured from the very center of each binding.
So if you take just one side plate width and add it to the center screws
then that's basically like taking half of this plate width and half of this plate width to each center
and then adding that to the width in between.
So what I'll do is I'll take my tape measure and I'll measure from screw to screw
and on this board it gives me 18.
And then if I add the plate width and I know these plates are six inch plates
all humanoid bindings are six inch width.
So if you flip a binding over and measure across the bottom of the plate
you'll see that from screw to screw is six inches with the exception of our size 1213.
That's a bigger binding so we had to accommodate a bigger foot
and that forced us to have a seven inch plate.
So all the binding plates are six inches and then when you get to a 1213 plus size
that's a seven inch plate so you want to add seven for that size.
So in this instance I have 18 inches in the middle from screw to screw.
I add six because I'm adding half of this one and half of this one or one side plate width
and that gives me 24 inches.
So I know my stance width from center of binding to center of binding is 24 inches.
Now when I take my bindings off put them on a new board.
I can find that width by starting on the outside holes.
So I have a blank board over here.
So if I measure with my tape measure and I go to the outside hole to the outside hole
I know on this one the the widest stance width is 32.
If I subtract six from that I'm going to get 26.
So I know I need to move in until I find 24 if I want to have the same stance width as on my other board.
So that's a great way to figure out your stance width.
Alright let's go over unboxing your product.
So you're going to want to grab your set of keys or your box cutter to cut through the tape on the box.
On the handle side there should be tape on all three sides.
So grab your keys and cut through the tape.
And the lid should come up open just like a normal snowboard box or even a shoe box.
Just flip that open.
You should find your product packaged nicely inside.
You'll also find a bag of mounting brackets and also M6 screws.
These are for mounting your boots to your board.
Go ahead and remove the bags.
Toss those aside.
And then on the side of each pair of boots you'll find a little pamphlet.
You might want to go through this and get familiar with all the features of the boots.
And then also don't forget to visit our website to get familiar with any warranty information that might be helpful to you.
Alright so let's go ahead and set up your boots on your board.
So we're going to take the Howl boots and put them on this wakeboard.
And we're going to take the stance from our old board and we're going to try to find it on our new board.
So I'm going to take my tape measure.
I'm going to find 24 inches.
So here we have, I found the inserts that are 30 inches apart.
I'm going to minus 6 and that's going to give me my 24.
So I'm going to go ahead and place my boots in between those inserts.
And then I'm going to grab my binding hardware and one screw.
Now when you're mounting your boots to your board we recommend that you only thread a couple threads on this one side.
Don't tighten this side all the way down first because that's what causes the cross threading on the other side sometimes.
So that's one big mistake that riders make is they'll tighten this side all the way down.
And then when they try to thread this one it puts the binding on kind of a weird angle and forces the screw in at a weird angle.
And it could cross thread the screw and then it's really hard to get that off and re-thread it properly.
So just go ahead and take your number three screwdriver.
Remember to use a number three screwdriver and not a number two.
Go ahead and thread this one in just a few threads and just lightly let the screw guide itself in.
Don't force it in.
I got that nice and loose so I can still move the boot and line it up with my stance angle on the other side.
Go ahead and grab your other mounting bracket and screw.
And then just turn this one a few threads, let it guide itself in.
Okay, when you have each side about three turns in then you can tighten them all the way down together and you know that they're not cross threaded.
So go ahead and crank those down as tight as you can.
Now each mounting bracket has a plastic washer on the top.
This plastic washer is there to act like a lock washer so your screws don't loosen up on you when you're riding.
The first time that you mount a new pair of bindings these are going to compress a little bit so they could loosen up on you.
So you might want to check them maybe in the middle of your first ride and definitely at the end of your first ride and then before each ride just to make sure that your screws are tight.
Now this compression of everything since it's new, the chassis plate, the nylon washer, even the board is going to compress a little bit so your screws may loosen up and you want to check them with your number three screwdriver.
So make sure you keep one in the boat at all times or keep one in your car if you go to the cable and just make sure you check your binding screws before each ride.
That's kind of a safety recommendation.
So once you get these cranked down go ahead and set up your boot on the other side the exact same way and you're all set to go.
Alright you're all set up.
Again thanks for joining the H Plus Boot Program.
If you have any questions feel free to contact us directly and stay tuned for more content coming your way.
