Hyperlite Saved my Arm!

[TeamAllen]

Here is their CS # Toll Free: 1-888-SKY-SKI-1
I just called them yesterday asking about this product.

[jchamlin]

Jeff, you got really lucky. I have an old spectra line (masterline) that I have used to pull stumps out of the ground. It's my backup rope. I was told when I bought it, the seller had used one to help someone off the boat ramp. Jeep wrangler hooked to a boat / trailer couldn't get off the ramp, for whatever reason. Hooked the line to his truck and pulled both the Jeep and boat / trailer out. Glad you're OK.

[TX-Foilhead]

Does anyone here have contact information for a marketing person at Comptech/SkySki?

You want to talk Jake. Not many people there so you would probably talk to him even if you weren't looking for him specifically.

[ES]

How's your arm Jeff? Has it finished turning colors?

[bsb4fsu]

Does anyone here have contact information for a marketing person at Comptech/SkySki?

Jeff, any luck on a CompTech group buy?

[NautiqueJeff]

Arm is getting much better. There is still some soreness, but the colors are mostly back to normal. There is one hard spot near my shoulder that is keeping me from straightening my arm out completely, but it is getting smaller and should be healed completely within another week I hope. Still haven't been back behind the boat yet. Hopefully this week.

I haven't gotten any responses to my messages to Comptech. Looks like they probably aren't interested. Too bad. I think it could have been a great partnership.

[TeamAllen]

After reading about your story as well of being reminded of others in the past I decided to try and put a group buy together. I had something set up with a dealer, but they, SKYSKI, want to handle it directly. I have been working with Jake and I hope to have some pricing tomorrow. There was some big event this weekend so they were all out of the office since Thursday.

[aZ`]

Has anyone tried adding something like this http://craftworktools.com/7brsw.html to their line as a cost effective release?
Perhaps you could install it at the end of the main line before any extensions for convenience, but I'm unsure of the weight of the unit.

[bsb4fsu]

I am an intermediate wakeboarder at best, basically wake to wake 180's, working on 3's. If one of these "releases" were to let go either prematurely or if someone put more load than its rating, could that hurt the rider as well if it let go approaching the wake during a hard cut?

[EchoLodge]

A Cinch release is a cheap investment. Most of us who ride Foils run some type of a release. I started with a Cinch (velcro release) and have a comptech mechanical release.

Sent from a phone!

[TX-Foilhead]

Has anyone tried adding something like this http://craftworktools.com/7brsw.html to their line as a cost effective release?
Perhaps you could install it at the end of the main line before any extensions for convenience, but I'm unsure of the weight of the unit.

$80 a shot could get expensive, that's basically what the Bullet Relase does, but it's held with a shar pin that only costs a few bucks.

[TX-Foilhead]

I am an intermediate wakeboarder at best, basically wake to wake 180's, working on 3's. If one of these "releases" were to let go either prematurely or if someone put more load than its rating, could that hurt the rider as well if it let go approaching the wake during a hard cut?

That's always what everyone says, go back and look at Jeff's arm. Now do you really think you're going to do something like that to yourself because you lost your line? You won't take crash any worse than what you're going to do learning new tricks. The rope can slip out of your hand at any time or you can screw up and loose your line tension and end up in the same situation as if the release poped. You're not adding an extra element of danger, you keeping the situation from getting a lot worse.

[TeamAllen]

One of the stoies I heard from the dealer made me realize there is always a danger with the rope. Even when you are not riding. The driver of the boat, he was in, drove over the rope, tangled it in the prop. The rope wound around and pulled the rope tight from within the boat as well as outside the boat. The rope got tangled around a passenger's arm and quickly pulled tight severing the passengers hand. I never realized how dangerous the rope is.

[aZ`]

$80 a shot could get expensive, that's basically what the Bullet Relase does, but it's held with a shar pin that only costs a few bucks.

$80 is for the unit (including a pin), the pins are $10.

[TX-Foilhead]

$80 is for the unit (including a pin), the pins are $10.

The pins were maybe $20 for 5, that may be $10 each by the time they get to Australia. Still much better than $80 each time it breaks. It would be unusual for someone to burn through them with a wakeboard, there aren't any tricks I can think of where you expect to get tangled up in the rope. There are only 2 or 3 on the foil and when you're working on learning those most people will use a regular trick release and a spotter to pull it until they get it dialed in. Breaking open an auto release with a wing is rough on the equipment.