Dangers of Surfboard Fins

Lol Bruce Jenner on budget.

Anyway, how's the surf in Annapolis?
For those who don't know - jimmy cantler's riverside inn has the best crabs in annapolis, hands down. Split like 24 large ones between four people one time w a few raging b1tchez - couldn't breathe for a while.

 

I sometimes use a 9 inch pro-tech flexi-fin as a single on my LB. It's nice when you are surfing outside and you know a sand bar is inside. saves your fin and box. It gives the board a weird feel on a bottom turn. It's like slow, slow, slow then snap as the fin catches up and straightens out. Don't know if I'm describing it right...
Been cut once on the top of my foot. Seems to be the most common spot. My son was surfing a hurricane swell and fell on an upside down board and speared himself in the upper back. Broke two fins and tore out an fcs plug...

 

Yeah ... always the top of the foot.

I've got one I should have gotten stitches for, and a just healed pink one from 12 weeks ago. Both left foot.

First day of spring, there was a nice swell, chest-head but solid and punchy. I was surfing with Peajay. got pitched on a takeoff and took a fin to my foot, hard. It hurt a lot, and I wanted to check it out, but the waves were good and we were having a blast.

When I checked it later, there was a little 1/2" crater hole in my 5mm bootie, that extended into my foot. This little hole healed up weirdly, and it still hurt, I was worried it was infected. Then, 8 weeks later, it got reopened from being chafed by the repair. Bit o' goo came out and it finally healed up properly.

Why is it always on the feet? Is it the way I bail sometimes? Any older dudes have advice on this?

 

Better your foot than your nutsack

How's the ankle btw?

 

Its not always the foot. Couple years ago in CR was too slow in really strong offshores and got barrelled the bad way. After dragging my half drowned carcass back to the line up, the board felt weird to paddle. Flipped it over and saw the fcs plug had been driven up through the top of the board and the sidewall was torqued and shattered. Couldnt figure out WTF had happened til i looked at the trail of blood from my shin. The shin won versus the board in a split decision (haha). halfway through a week trip was not going to end it with stitches so used gallons of iodine and duct tape. Figured i would be back in the states by the time it go infected, which it didnt. glad there are no real sharks in Guanacaste since i was a chum ball.

 

Shark Hunter hates fins on surf riding boards.

 

As I am an "older dude" I would like to say something, but I know if I do, tomorrow when I surf I will be jinxed and sustain an injury. So I must keep me mouth shut!! Sorry.

 

I just got some twinzers for my quad and they're extremely sharp. could cut deeply

 

Maybe you should do this, since they are so sharp

 

Genius! Solution found for my "fins scraping the back of my trunk" problem

 

I did this about 2 months ago. Finally starting to wear shoes again...

 

Scobey, thats gnarly!

When I was about 15 I was surfing 2nd light in FL, screwed up a drop in, I flipped, board flipped, fins came across my leg and cut me pretty good. Not stitches good, but good enough, I kept surfing. I think my balls were a little bigger back then or I was just young and dumb, but if I knew about the amount of sharks along there, I prob would have gotten out for a bit to let the bleeding stop. LOL

 

...btw - I agree with you about Cantler's! - ok, the fact is, Annapolis has a secret cove that regularly breaks at chest/head high - but we don't like to talk about it - cuz we don't want to share with groms (no, really, for some reason, people don't believe that you can live inland and go to different breaks on weekends, esp. if one has a place to stay on the coast) - but everybody thinks that you surf where you live - so where do people think people from Pennsylvania and West Va. surf?) - guys (and ladies) we don't surf only in our backyards! - we do like to travel! I'm getting ready to move to Oceanside CA, --- in Feb. I surfed Swamis, tamarack, Ponto's, Beacons, boneyard) so DON't make generalizations about those of us who are still inland! (some of us get a bigger wave count than some of you who "live" near OC, Assateague, etc.) - we are not kids anymore - when I'm 75, I'm gonna paddle out at Swamis - a buddy of mine surfed with Donald Takayama when he was 75 - and he died with a smile on his face cuz out of respect, everybody gave him the set wave! (and if you don't get what I'm talking about, you'll never get it)!

 

Don't get all SALTY now just kidding around.
For real though - coordinates of that cove or it didn't happen, and I want my $15 dollars back for that 40-minutes-my-ass boat excursion around the academy. The booze on first deck saves it. Lol I'm semi-local hating, of course, my parents live in Annapolis, so I'm there fairly regularly. Love the crabs, love the gelato from the center square market. Federal house ain't bad either. But for real good crab cakes - go to 6th street.

Seriously though, coordinates, and you next crabby patty is on this guy.

 

+1

 

My friend snapped my fin the other day... had to temporarily replace the rear quads with two sidebites that came with my 9'0'' haha

 

WHAT!?!? Yeah, Tolly Point fires!! LOL Actually, what are you talking about

 

Result of some dipsh!t dropping in on me at the North End in vb a few years ago. Got five staples out of it

 

Hopefully the government will regulate them like they do everything else