Anybody actually tried them? Do they rip or what? Never see anybody with them, so inquiring knucklehead wants to know…thanks.
I had a set and liked them. I liked them in mushy waves that is. They give a little lift in the tail, shorten the turning radius a bit, and added a little drive. In steep/punchy waves however, they tend to track/or have a mind of their own. I had them in everything from a 6’2" fishy shortboard to a 6’10" egg and like them. But they are not an all around fin.
i have a set that i used on small fishy thruster. they def. add a lot of drive to a board and i found that they really had to be turned off the back foot kinda skatey style. whenever i’d have my weight a little bit forward they would track a bit. i’m not sure that i ever gave it enough time to fully adjust to them. don’t really use em much anymore but once in a while i throw them in for fun.
i have a set that i used on small fishy thruster. they def. add a lot of > drive to a board and i found that they really had to be turned off the > back foot kinda skatey style. whenever i’d have my weight a little bit > forward they would track a bit. i’m not sure that i ever gave it enough > time to fully adjust to them. don’t really use em much anymore but once in > a while i throw them in for fun. i guess i surf differently from you guys. i’m a front foot, single fin kinda guy but those fins work well in the boards i ride. the boards i use them in are variations of cheyne horan’s super small lazer zaps he was riding in japan 4 yrs. ago(roughly). 5’0 and 5’5 with squared off nose and 8-10" square tailblock with the widepoint back 3-5"(hard to believe on so short a board). i started using them before they were available from fcs(made a set based on fairly accurate eyewitness accounts from the tradeshow) and find they fit my semi-skatey,front foot drive style on those particular boards. must be the wide point placement, since i don’t like them in other boards, including a 5’9 fish i recently travelled with (that ended up working best with normal 5 1/2" twin fins). go figure. cheers. jim dunlop