Who invented the modern performance twin fin ?????????

[beerfan]

Love the curve on that steve brom rocket fish!

[mooneemick]

@$1

This stuff is funny, Simmons did back i the wood days, and quite a few in between that and the growth of the popular version in the late seventies because of the Magazines hyping of MR.  Hero worship and the magazines factor into the equation.  Just like the thruster people did it before Simon, and just like the SUP and Laird.  Anyways, I know I didn’t invent it but I appreciate all the designs, and all the people who contributed to it.  For me the glory days of the twin were just before the thruster destroyed it around '80 -'81 at low tide 54th, with the Stussy guy’s like Mike Sharp doing their thing.  John Gothard had it down too,  Jeff Parker could really ride a Lance Collins Wave Tools, and so could Kwock.  Some days Steve Richardson would walk down from his parent’s place on Sonora by river jetties.  The energy moved south and focused on Newport, and Moir, and Dj were there to record it.  The twin really fitted that wave well, and those were some good times.

This is the purpose of this thread , getting everyone to throw in memories , personal experience with the design , claims and whatever.

Stir the juices . 

I’ve been facinated with the fish / twin design since I was about 14 yrs old , a mate brought an American surf mag to school and it had an advert for a rocket fish in it ( 1973 Surfer ? ) . I’d seen the Lis style fish before this but the rocket fish looked more my speed. I’m sure plenty of shapers of that era would have tried to take that design further and to suit local conditions .

Evolution.

Cheers

Mooneemick

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@$1

Rooster, sorry Dude

The question wasn’t asked to make someone feel bad , like their country wasn’t the most important .

Speaking of beer we did’nt invent it but we showed you how to drink it right.

I think the Kiwi’s are claiming human flight these days. ( They’re the smaller islands to our southeast. )

Cheers

Mooneemick

 

Mooneemick,

Thanks dude.  I feel much better now.  But, I think Belgium ( smallish country to the north of France) might be the most important country right now for continuing all those great beer recipes through the centuries. Ironic, don’t you think, the Kiwi’s are named after a flightless bird and claim first human flight?

I think the question was who invented the Modern Performance Twin.  In my mind it is MR.  Nothing I’ve read so far has changed my mind.  He built them and surfed them better than anyone I saw.  But, I didn’t pay much attention back then any farther north that the OB flood control jetty and farther south that a few spots I shall not name. An admitted small world view.

Mike

[yorky]

As you requested McDing.

[mooneemick]

Modern Performance Twin !!!

Very nice board Yorky. Is it a personal ?

I think this one and the boards that Bud has posted previously are the epitome of the genre.

Clean fluid shapes.

Cheers

Mooneemick

 

 

[solosurfer]

@$1

We left out Greg Loehr.  I’m pretty sure he was pumping out those twins in the "70’s -'80’s as well.

 

Thats why I put the name Greg In front of Tabling. I forget to put the Loehr after figuring Swaylockers would know. Florida Transplant to California Greg Mungal also an animal on those things. 

[solosurfer]

@$1

Funny about Holeman, I saw him in the early '80’s, when he came to 54, or as I called it “wannabe beach”, and was not impressed at all, he didn’t even fall into the third tier in my estimations.  I thought maybe he was having troubles, and that is nothing against him, I just didn’t see it.  The kind of talent someone like Steve Richardson had on a twinnie was mind-blowing, Ken Bradshaw told me the only one he had seen with that kind of talent was a kid then and his name is Kelly.  

 

Some Floridians never made the transition in California. At least by Californians of the times standards. Neither Greg Lohr or Tabling had too much trouble fitting in  or as I mentioned Mungal.  To me Ron Quigley was one of the more underrated of the Hungtington Crew of that era nice kid who died way too young. His older brother George was one of my good friends and also a good surfer. We  all rode Hurley’s tripple wing twins during my time there…other than me who also had a Mccoy. I sold my double wing pintail from Florida my first six months there.  Preston Murray also a good surfer.    

 

I"m actually thinking about ordering me up a double wing channel pin bottom twin

 

 

[McDing]

Thanks!   Very nice!

[HerbSpitzer]

yes you do bill !

i truly believe you deserve more credit for your creations.

heck,

 we'd all be still drillin' holes in our fins.......... if it wasn't for guys like you.

herb

[HerbSpitzer]

72' 73' were the years of the dyno fish.............as well as lis' fish.................72' was a ,"breakout year" for surfing/surfboard evolution.

the early dynos had no cant or toe in the fins..........first came cant...........then eventually toe.

the first board i owed with toe and cant was a  david nuuhiwa surfcraft(like the end of 73').

most of the surfcrafts were shaped by terry martin.

rumor has it that brom shaped the surfcraft i owed.

herb

[sharkcountry]

I have a copy of “A Sea for Yourself” showing Corky Carroll riding one of those early twins. I think it was one of the hollow type Bings with the square tail and fins way back in the corners. He’s riding it pretty good too. This is years before Mark Richards ever started shaping, and before the fish style twin took over. Kinda of has more in common with the Simmons shapes than the fish. I remember them being popular in the very early 70’s. 

Reno was riding short wide fish style twins.

[knowaloha]

check out this twinzer fish , anyone reconize the logo ?

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[rooster]

Is it a Brom or Martin? Does it say Nuwiva(spelling?) as in David…?  Mike

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Is it a Brom or Martin? Does it say Nuwiva(spelling?) as in David....?  Mike

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Nuuhiwa

[ghettorat]

Your right Mungall fricken ripped on twinnes back then.  Funny I shaped quite a few for him back in the day.  Complicated relationship I have with 'ole Mungall.  I have known his wife Duranne since she was a little kid.

[HerbSpitzer]

nuuhiwa surfboards

looks like a sam hawk shape.

circa late 70s thru the early 90s

herb

[knowaloha]

thanx Herb , did you notice the twinzer fin setup ?

 

do you know when they were first made ?

[HerbSpitzer]

will jobson was the inventor of the twinzer design.

like early 90s as best i remember.

never knew will ,but a friend, and surf buddy of mine, mark stewart, knew will.

he loved will's twinzer design .

herb

[reverb]

…hello Herb,

I posted about that years ago, possibly still in the archives.

A buddy (E. Bolioli) here when he s in Hawaii, as he mentioned to me years ago, help to fine tune the idea with Will Jobson and other guy that I do not remember the name.

I think that was in 89 or 90 but I cannot remember right now. The Blue Hawaii era

[HerbSpitzer]

rev,

that's about right.

i love the twinzer design,always have.

i've had a few in my time and as someone said,"they never let me down".

herb