Finless board at Winki pop

Post by **Jamoe** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:44 pm

Check out the crazy board Derek Hynd was riding at Bells the other day. About, 3 pictures down and another of him riding it like 5 pictures down: http://www.coastalwatch.com/news/articl ... cleId=2650

Wonder if it is a new design or something old school they have pulled out of the closet. Anyone got any ideas? how's the massive concave in the tail!

Post by **wanto** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:39 pm

haven't seen him ride with fins for over a year now. he's progressed from tearing the fins off a beautiful looking twinny (much like tom curren's bawa twinny) to reshaping the bottom of paddle boards.

i didn't take these photos .. the were handed to me from a mate on a cd. not exactly sure who did take them, but if the photog sees this, thanks for the photos, they're great (heaps more than are posted) and if you want any taken down just say the word.

Post by **Jamoe** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:41 pm

where is the fun without the fins!

Post by **Glide** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:27 pm

Saw him surfing on the Northern Beaches about a year ago on a board without fins. It didnt look like the one in the pics though it was just a normal board with the fins taken out.

He was making a pretty good fist of it considering. Definetly someone who is not content to follow the herd.

Post by **Troy_Cisco_Kid** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:22 pm

and the point is ??? just because he can

Post by **dee-r-e** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:34 pm

There used to be some crazy footage of jamie obrien floating around on youtube surfing with no fins, but it seems to have been taken off. He was all over it, bazzas, cutties, the whole kit and kaboodle.

Post by bc » Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:30 pm

About a year ago, there was an article in Surfer mag (?) about Jamie O'Brien surfing a finless board. I don't think it had so many channels tho

Post by **Revolution** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:44 pm

Dee-r-e your thinking of jamie obrien in freakshow. Not channels or anything just fins ripped off the bottom, making barrels and doing numerous 360's.

I like seeing inovation like this, deffinately makes surfing alot more interesting seeing someone like this with an inovative board.

Post by **swellsearch** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:35 am

you can read more about it on the Safe to Sea website - http://safetosea.blogspot.com/2007/10/h ... le-of.html

Post by bc » Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:34 pm

Revolution wrote:Dee-r-e your thinking of jamie obrien in freakshow. Not channels or anything just fins ripped off the bottom, making barrels and doing numerous 360's.

Sort of - but a custom board - he was saying he'd tweaked the rails to get more traction.
Might have been in Freakshow too - I've not seen it.

Post by DF » Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:04 pm

This dude is ripping at it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1CVBQXsM1o

Post by **Ninenorth78W** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:45 am

Dan Malloy's been doing this as well, using super thin-rail Liddle hulls. And i've heard of him also using a 'bottom-half' or somthing like that. kinda like a flexspoons greenough used to ride -- rail so thin, that they hold without the fin.

people that seen him ride that way claim he can really get up speed in smaller surf.

seen the o'brien stuff too - yeah youtube -- good shit actually.

Post by **sharky** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 8:56 am

some footage of Dan Malloy surfing his finless board.
also lots of other mini docs of surfers and surfing (and tons of other crazy art sh*t) in Southern California.
check it out.

the video that will load will be the most recent one posted (i believe...)
so click on the Dan Malloy PART 3 to see the footage i was talking about.

http://www.vbs.tv/player.php?bctid=1266 ... gzMV9fRVRD

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