Discover a fin made with enormous, sincere and difficult effort!
We here joke about very many things because very many things are funny. Everything, in fact, in our surf world is funny except the actual feeling of surfing a wave. Can anything beat it? Does anything come even close?
No. It is as close as any one of us will ever get to redemption.
And so we take these bits seriously. Boards. And trunks. And wetsuits. And fins.
And there’s a fin out there you should back and it ain’t FCS. Oh sure I poke at them because are part of the larger Surfstitch x CoastalWatch empire but I also poke because they make an inferior product.
I have wandered Futures Huntington Beach factory more than once. I have watched the precision. I have seen the fire in my eyes. And so, like very few things, I completely back their product and… the only thing that matters… they work on a wave.
This fin is better than anything out there. Better than FCS’s molded plastic.
This is the only fin you should ride.
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… t’was chatting last week with a current WSL CT shredder about the direction of fins and fin systems… he (name withheld) reckons NOTHING beats ye-olde-school laid-up glass fins – and he’s tried ’em all! Fella’s been involved in fin development programs using all kinda technical flex patterns, foils, plastics/carbon composites etc etc et al… AND paid handsomely for his involvement and endorsement – even has his own signature label fin on the market. Glass fins “… feel more natural” he remarked. What’s old is new again.
but what about josh kerrs fins? dimple technologeeeeee so cutting edge
Sorry that you don’t understand fractions. I’m sure that the German rocket scientists were smart enough engineers to work in any unit of measure. The German technology did contribute to the rocket program, but that was only a portion of the technology needed to land men on the moon. The rest was purely American.
I have always preferred futures, I feel like they give me more drive out of my turns.
Fractions are very simple math, I guess that some countries chose the metric system because their people are not smart enough to understand fractions.
As the saying goes: there are those countries that have put a man on the moon and there are those countries that use the metric system.
Sorry to burst your little American Exceptionalist bubble, but it was Germans and German rocket science that put America on the moon. Try reading more.
Then why didn’t the Germans set foot on the moon. German engineering did contribute to American rocket technology but the moon landing required far more engineering than just the rocket motors. What the fuck have you been reading that tells you otherwise? Please splain me.
Ok, ok, ok, you win! Americans are the greatest! America is the greatest! F-ing who cares. Geesh. Get off your couch, sell your guns, and use that money to travel to other great countries; maybe you’ll learn something.
What is the avg speed of surfer? I mean I feel like you are only pulling maybe 10mph-15mpg tops…a quick google search found that the top recorded speed of a surfer is 30 mph. Is drag really that big a factor. I think drive and grip(or lack of grip) are the most important thing in a fin. Anyone else find that fin that has a good amount of flex feels really good to carve with?
Control vs Speed. Weigh off
I found flexy fins help drive board better out of bottom hand turns. Having a fin with wide enough base is as important
Al Merrick template. Pick the size to match you, good for almost all conditions
Futures Blackstix. Great if you feel you need more speed
Quads. Only on grovel summer boards for me
But you could argue that speed comes from the wave. I understand that if you had bricks for fins that would slow you down. but you are only hitting 30 mph tops, is drag an important consideration in building a fin.
I agree that it is important to have a wide base, and I also think that these alphas are just a marketing ploy, drag for me is not an issue with my fins. the proper size is my problem
99% of all fins are marketing ploys
Unless you’re KS you just need a proper sized set of thrusters. Anything else you’re kidding yourself really (unless you want to go weird on keels or such)
Foil is important and can help control or speed. Blackstix baby
fucken hell where’d you read that Jacko, people travel a fair bit faster than that at times. But what counts with a fin is water speed, which is often a fair bit higher (and sometimes lower) than your apparent point to point speed. And drag in water is much greater than drag in air at relative speeds (as is lift). Trying throwing a ball underwater for example. I think people’s sense of a fin similarly varies – like you are into a flexing fin for carving, I am a fan of two things in fins: a) as low area as possible, and b) as stiff as possible. like least drag most effect sorta thing. But then I am also a fan of contours that do a lot more lifting than most (ie deep concaves, channels etc) and so take away some of the need for a fin to lift.
Christ how did I get sucked into that babble? Fuck you Smith! Fuck you and your finny passion thing!
I love you Nick Carroll! As much as fins!
very good
Because Japanese or German = Precision.
American = Ya get what ya get.
American = innovation. We invented the stuff that matters in your shitty country.
You re Right!
Meth addiction Nationalism and the grossly obese are all on the rise round here!
What if surfboard dims were in metric?
Dude in the photo is using Japanese made calipers…
I have michael schumacher fin
Doesn’t quite know which direction to go in? Seems a little lost?
I demand them for my nascent World Title Campaign!
Oh it’s been proven you can’t win without!
Then I’ll just skip the WQS!