Just because someone calls a particular board a Fish, doesn’t mean that it IS a Fish. Seems to me the bulk of what people are calling Fish, are in fact Twinfins. Perhaps inspired by the Fish design, but a Twinfin all the same. I think the Fish will fade again, as Herb stated, because there is a NEW concept beginning to emerge. Something that only a few surfers today have experienced, or understand. This will become the NEW area of exploration by those who have heard about the design, and wonder aloud how the design could possibly work in hollow waves, or big waves, or even small waves. The coming new concept is, (dare I say it?) the Single Fin! Now please don’t light up the thread with denials, or defense of the Fish, just think about how the various design concepts are recycled, to new generations of young surfers.
Are any of you out there starting to get curious about singles? Oh, yes, Mr. Slater IS a phenom. I’ve seen slo-mo film of him doing things in, on, above, and across the pitching lip of a wave, that defy gravity and physics. I’d like to be him for one wave, to see what that level of performance feels like. Wouldn’t you?
