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Change Your Riding by Changing Fins
Surfers are different as all people are. And the things they can do when on the surfboard are limited only by their imagination and skill level.
One surfer can ride the surfboard smoothly, another prefers to cut into waves for a change. The style depends on the character of a person.
Anyway, to diversify the ways of how you ride your surfboard on the waves, you can explore the existing surfing equipment which you haven’t known before for a change.
To stimulate you to start the exciting experiment of searching for the best surfboard fitting you to change your customary surfboard, we are going to share the fin shape alternatives to encourage you to make some changes.
Turbo Fin
This design is distinguished by its change in a curve along the entire hull. Firstly, to make the change, it goes closer to the edge of the surfboard and then turns to the other side closer to the center again.
According to Orbelian’s opinion, this fin can provide you with a dynamic ride full of enjoyment during the turns.
Surfers notice that this fin can create a so-called Venturi effect, when the fluid and, in our case, the water goes through the conduit, here, through the flipper and changes its pressure for the increase.
But this fact which is obvious for many people is still doubtful for others.
Boomerang, Football, and Omega Fins
According to the above-mentioned opinion, these fins will contribute to your stability in critical and extraordinary conditions.
Its descent is usually connected to windsurfing of good quality.
While turning when the surfboard bends down the water, the fin is almost out of the water and such a change of position influences the performance of the surfboard.
Your surfboard won’t sneak out the swell you caught. And also, the surfboard will respond better when you bend over side to side.
Star-Shape Fin
This design was developed by a famous surfer Cheyne Horan and implemented by Ben Lexcen, a yachtsman and a marine architect.
According to the book cited here, this stabilizer gives the surfboard better performing at turns.
You can do it rapidly and impertinently because of the vertical inclination.
Fin Angular 757
This fin has straight edges instead of usual ones. This change can provide you with cool turns during which you will not feel so much the resistance of the water to your surfboard.
Thus, you’ll get better gliding and the water will just flow down easily.
To prove the information, remember the case of the surfer Kelly Slater who was the world champion of the latest years at Trestles nine times, and she rode exactly this fin.
One more reason to believe it is the book written by George Orbelian entitled Essential Surfing. He describes the principles of the flipper performance there.
We have presented to you four ways to change something and try a new experience of riding a different surfboard fin. Make changes, experiment, and have fun!
