There are so many bloody fins available and its so hard trying to figure out which is best for what. Here's what I have gathered so far:
- PERFORMANCE CORE fins are good fins with prety good flex, the advantage of this fin over the performance glass fins are that these are slightly lighter however the performance glass fins have a better flex as they are 100% glass. Is the flex a positive or negative? How has tried these fins?
- PERFORMANCE GLASS fins are suppost to be best in surf bigger than 3ft, because they are slightly heavier than the performance core and in bigger waves this extra weight isn't such an issue, and they apparantly have better flex than the core fins. I will mostly be surfing in under 4ft, who has surfed these in under this size? They also have the K2.1 limited edition 7 title fins in this available which I can get for a tiny bit less than the normal performance glass model as they're out of date (obviously he's won 8 titles now), these are exactly the same in construction as the performance glass but just in the slater shape.
- Then theres the H2 or F-SERIES fins, these are ultra light expoxy but apparantly don't have as good a flex characteristics compared to that of the core or glass fins. But I have heard alot of good things about the H2's and also alot of other mixed reports about them. I have tried them and I am undecided about how I rate them, they felt fast and free but also quite weird, I can't make my mind up about them. Who else has used either of these 2?
There's also the glass flex models available, but what I gather about these are they are ok but are a cheaper fin, and the other models above will go better (am I right in saying that?).
WHAT the hell fins should I buy. Can anyone give me some advise on what they've used or heard about any of the new fcs models above. I am planning to try a few sets out but the surf here is prety bad and I've had to surf a mal for the last few months, even if swell does come its prety hard to tell how a fin goes after only a few hours on it.
