Are any of the big name board makers using the Futures Suspension system?
marketing hype …
glossy brochures , lots of testimonials , couldnt back it up with production …
seen it all before …
got a friend who has the classiest looking fin brochure , with pictures of every futures fin imaginable , he has rung countless shops … tried every surf shop he drove past on both coasts of oz and couldnt buy one set of futures fins …
he finally found an old plastic set at daves place …
why do people think they can go out and sell a million units without any thought to how they are going to deliver …
regards
BERT
Hey Waaahhhoooo & Bert,
Indending a brief comment here as a bit of information rather than as a defense of the suspension system, my veiw of it is that it was concieved for high stress situations in large surf. Tieing all three fin boxes together stucturally will serve the structural integrity of board and will create different performance – maybe better, maybe not. For normal surfing conditions and boards the system is over kill IMHO. Clearly trying to hype up something like this for the general surf population is a hardly a horse worth saddling.
Off to the fin shop, Rich
I thought it was because of the plugs pulling out of the board and delaminating the whole tail in the process. (Repair nightmare)
OR
Was it to stop the board snapping in between the torsion point of the front and center boxes? (oops even bigger repair nightmare)
For all of this systems advantages, the negatives outway them in my opinion.
Lol, of couse i’ll get labeled as biased, but when they first came out with it we were told is was because the vector fins created so much torque that they were ripping the boxes out. Within a year it was being market as a way to tie the three fins together for maximum drive. Not sure which one they settled on but either way lol.
easy bert… it wasnt an old set, i had 6 different templates all new stock, another 15 sets coming next week. i know of five shops here who have them instock. they are not all on the main highway like me! i know one factory here who fits 50 + sets a week of futures.
Worked on that project breifly. The guy in charge had two dozen road blocks to negotiate to get it done and had no idea of how to get past even the first. Actually not a bad concept but difficult to achieve good results without a very open mind. Sometimes you have to look outside the box to get out of the box.
Bert’s right about hype. It was hyped wayyyyyyy before there was anything other than the concept.
looks like i have the wrong picture there maybe dave ???
is there focus more on the manufacturers ???
seems like most shops stock fcs , but not futures ??
maybe thats because they have a policy of not selling boxes without fins , a retail outlet has no need for boxes …
that would probably explain it …
regards
BERT