Any opinions would be greatly appreciated. Drew Danielo, I do believe, created this trick. It entails taking two boards out on your run, riding one and then jumping from THAT board onto a board that you've carried out with you. Jennifer Sellers does a nice throw down board transfer, also.
The problem, at a small contest is then you have the take off board floating around the lake, typically somewhere on the course.
At the final NorCal INT League wakesurfing series stop, I sent James swimming to get a dropped board.
It's good to be the boss.
Anyway, without chase boats or folks available to get the loose equipment, it can be problematic.
So...disallow board transfers? Limit them to the end of your run and require the contestant to retrieve their equipment within x minutes or face DQ'ing? If I try to make consistent rules that can be applied to every venue in the country, there will be instances where allowing a board transfer will negatively impact the running of the contest and so some organizers will simply say - "no" at their site.
Is this trick a fundamental part of wakesurfing such that it needs to be allowed, regardless? Is this sort of...censorship, if you will, detremental to the growth of the sport?
Any opinions?