twin fins....the board time forgot

[aaronn]

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[PeepeelaPew]

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[Natho]

I think few people ride em coz they suck to ride

[purple pyramids]

i ride a twin with trailer -- it's probably the most popular kneeboard set up. still, it's not a twin.
the real mystery is where did the swallow tail go? twin fin, swallow tail with channels was THE board. everything is fish this, fun fish that.
will they ever return to capestrano?

[Buff_Brad]

BB rides a 6, 6" MR twin with a trailer personally shaped by the man himself.

Perfect for the Eastern Subs on most days.

A beautiful board.

[Beerfan]

Kelly doesn't ride one

[billy chan]

I've been ridin' twin fins frequently the last coupla years... On account of me constantly leaving a third fin behind somewhere in the tidal shallows of places like Gnaraloo and Maui (Lombok).

I'm down to three fins for two boards now. Should probably invest.

[Beanpole]

Was it Gary Timperley who won the Stubbies on a twin fin back in the day?
I remember thinking this was sacrelige because:
1. It was Burleigh on a twin fin and.....
2. It was someone from Byron which should have been impossible since Gold Coast Surfers ruled.

[Beerfan]

Didn't the other TC (the non short one!) win a contest on an old school twin fin?. The footage of him on his old school twin fish is sick. I dig how he uses the shortness of the board, and his weight distribution to crank hard tight turns. Fish need to be short to work!. Then again, it was tom curren, and his big toe has more talent than i'll ever have :?

[Nick Carroll]

Was it Gary Timperley who won the Stubbies on a twin fin back in the day?
I remember thinking this was sacrelige because:
1. It was Burleigh on a twin fin and.....
2. It was someone from Byron which should have been impossible since Gold Coast Surfers ruled.

No.

Peter Harris won the Stubbies on a twinnie in 1980. He wasn't the only one. (MR anyone?)

Timpo came third in 1981 on debut, a brilliant performance.

Personally I always thought Dane was the best on a twinnie, his raw acceleration and crazy ripping rail turns were a sight to behold.

Beerfan, Kelly Slater rode twinfins for the first few years of his surfing life and developed the basis for his revolutionary approach on the things. It's one reason why he's been so interested and willing to explore quads.

And Tom Curren won the Katin Pro-Am and numerous amateur events on a twinnie pre-thruster, though his style definitely improved on thrusters.

[saucy gibbon]

didnt kelly ride one at deadmans a while ago ?

[Natho]

Yeh Kelly rode one at Deadmans by mistake. He was so pumped in the carpark to get out there that he forgot to put the centre fin of his thruster in properly, hence he was out there minus the centre fin by mistake and decided just to make do.

I would have thought following that that everyone would start pulling their centre fins out just like Kelly

[robzig]

[Moore]

Rasta, love him or hate him, surfs exceptionally well on his Akila Aipa and Fornula Energy twins.

My mate has a 6' Spider Pottz replica that he loves. Surfs it in pretty much any conditions.

[Cpt.Caveman]

I'm a big fan of twin-fins, theres something so addictive about the feeling of speed and freedom while driving and arcing through turns. The problem for most I have ridden is how to gain back control and still have the sensation of a centerline through turn transitions. I find that doesn't need to be much of a problem at lower planing speeds, but faster planing speeds can take some real mastery when all you're feeling is that sudden on-the-point pivot coming from up the rail-line somewhere.

[el rancho]

Rastavich and DH are the two best twin fin purveyors of recent times.


DH at Jbay sums up the whole twin-fin Lis fish thang

[steve shearer]

twin-fins and twin-keeled fishes are two very different animals.

Not related by design lineage at all.

[el rancho]

yeah can't say I've ever ridden a twin keel fish.

got two 80s performance twin fish. one is a MR twin copy made circa 1980 I suppose.

the other is a weird late 70s brothers neilsen boxkite flyer. but it also has a big centre fin box to make it extra freaky.


i have recently lusted in my mind after a 6'6 Lis style keel fish.

would cover a lot of bases I guess, if you finned it right.