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Hey guys, I came across this post in a thread on the Starboard forum. It was written by Roger USA 7011.

"1/ Uphaul your rig and hold the mast (below the boom) with your front hand.
2/ Step back behind the mast foot with both feet, placing the front foot about 4-6" behind the mast foot and 4-6" upwind of the centerline. Place the back foot about shoulder width behind the front foot and place your rear heel right on the boards fore/aft centerline.
3/ Bring the rig across in front of your front shoulder until it balances on the mast foot. The mast will be about 4-6" above the centerline and leaning upwind.
4/ Place 2 fingers of your back hand on the boom, right in front of your rear shoulder.
5/ Move your front hand from the mast up to the boom just behind the mast. (In higher winds, or if you have any controlissues you can use the cross over technique where you hold the mast with your back hand, and then cross your front hand OVER the back hand and onto the boom near the mast).
6/ SLOWLY rotate your shoulders and upper body about 5 degrees rear shoulder back to add power to the rig and get the board moving across the wind (beam reach).
7/ As the board accellerates, progressively move back on your board and progressively sheet the sail in a little more to keep the accelleration going.
8/ When you have your back foot about midway between the front and rear footstraps, place your arch right over the f/a centerline so you can "foot steer" your board.
Place virtually ALL of your weight on the rear foot and leg.
Allow the board to continue to accellerate.
9/ Since you have no weight on your front foot and it's back near the front footstrap, place it in the front footstrap, but DO NOT put any weight on it. Your stance will now be somewhat open and you will be facing about 45 deg. forward. The rig will be partially raked back
and the sail sheeted in to about 45 deg. also.
10/ Hook in to your harness!
11/ Now transfer your weight to the rig. It should now be sheeted in and raked back because you brought it back with you as you moved back on the board, but not fully sheeted in nor fully raked back.
The idea here is to once again, keep your board accellerating.
12/ Now place all of your weight onto the rig through your harness and lines.
This takes the weight off your feet, and allows you to put your foot in the back footstrap.
13/ Now your board is almost up to full speed, you are in both straps, hooked in and leaning back to make the most of your upper body WEIGHT.
14/ When you are up to full speed, begin to lift slightly with your front foot as you push across the top of the fin (parallel to the water's surface, not weight in a downward direction) with your back foot.
This will roll your board slightly lee rail down, and allow the board to get up on the fin and go very fast and much higher upwind than you can achieve any other way.
15/ Enjoy! You can now select your course, fully planing, by simply changing the roll angle of your board (lee rail down goes upwind, flat on the water goes straight on a beam reach, lee rail down slightly (pull up with your front foot) and un rake the rig slightly to head off the wind. All the time you will be planing at top speed."

I guess for my case, these footsteering techniques in bold font would answer the question of my thread.

On my own, I have managed to improve footsteering, but not by 'pushing across the fin' or 'lifting with front foot toes'. All I did was bend the back leg and straighten the front leg, which has enabled me to point downwind.

Guess, I should go practice some of these 'advanced'(or not) techniques!

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