Single Fin v Thruster? shapers?

too true. what ya got coming?

 

cause people who need $$ resurrect dead and buried designs......
then tell us how great they are.
which they aren't cause they are ancient history.

 

A 7' size down by natures shapes from my 8' current fun board....errr I mean HPLB.
Supposed to get a phone call any day now. The fin set up is essentially a quad with 1 in center for a single...so 5 to play around with, as opposed to only thruster on hplb haha. I Can't wait.

 

Idk dude, but as a novice here I'd like to experiment and try everything, before I make up my own mind. So i'm gonna start at the beginning and ride it out the way it pans man. At least that's the plan.

 

This is the right answer. If you play golf would you play an entire round with only your 4 iron? Would you putt with your driver? No you use the right "tool" for the job.

 

sounds awesome. i'm not personally a fan of the hplb species, but enjoy the ride!

 

What doesn't work for you may work for others. Different strokes for different folks...

 

My initial idea was to jump down to a 6' sb but after some consideration and a few convos with knowledged people I think a gradual sizing down is more favorable. Gotta go with what I can and cannot do and not jump ahead of myself. I think I'd rather catch waves with a 7' for now than not catch any with a 6' sb. Either way a foot down, I think is gonna be a noticeable change in dynamics, plus it's a first custom, so im stoked through the a$$ about it.

 

You're doing the right thing dude. Keep taking good advice and you'll be ripping on a 6' SB in no time.... Ok actually maybe some time, maybe a year or so...

 

and the deaf ears respond:

dont know 4 sure but sounds like excuse making for 'B grade" talent.
and, if true, would the talent be 'A grade' if it wasn't enamored of single fins?

 

Ride what you like...like what you ride.

 

Baddy, believe me I've heard that rhetoric before. I can only speak from my experience:

I learned to surf on thrusters in the 90's. My first board was a hand-me-down 80's thruster. I've owned maybe 6 or 7, and I still have a few in my garage... real nice boards. But I found something else that I really like in a single fin as my surfing matured. I would take one of those thrusters out in a heartbeat, especially if the surf was waist-chest and mushy and I often do in the summer.. The thing is, I don't surf as much as I did when I was in my 20's and had no real responsibilities. I've learned a lot in the last decade about meteorology and I use that knowledge to try to pick the best possible days to ditch my family and everything and go surfing. So on those rare good days, my go-to board happens to be my 6'3" round pin with a single fin. I find it to be most reliable in the drop and bottom turn, and it drives fast through barrels. I'm lucky to be at a point in my surfing where I've really nothing to prove to anyone. I don't sell boards. I only shape a few for my closest friends, so I have nothing to gain from advocating the single fin other than the good feeling that comes from helping someone out.

 

My comments were referring to surfing waist high east coast mush with a sgl. fin. After 35+ years of surfing (god I'm getting old) many different shapes/confgurations I stand by what I said. This should not deter anybody from surfing what ever floats their boat.

 

i've had this conversation on this forum before like nj42 likes bonzers but here goes:

nothing you said was wrong; its just that theres a thin line between accepting a design and advocating it.
accept: OK
advocate: WELL, OK BUT WHERE YOU GOING W/THIS?

the direction those of us must go that have NO VESTED INTEREST in this issue is to do our best
to set the best possible direction for the younger guys cause we are tribal and as such the elders duty is
one of parsing through all da poop so as to best direct and help the young surfers. keeping all dat in mind
my opinion is that that one (the single fin shortboard...and sorry sorry sorry cause i know some of
'em work) has gone through the wash and the verdict is in and 90+ pct of us have voted with our
heads and wallets. and we have decided - not some corpo ****-wad - that its old news. i apologize for
my tone and i ride a potatonator w/rasta quad set-up cause its as modern and progressive as this
small brain can figure out and maybe you should too but if you like your single fin thats fine cause
i rode 'em for like 20 years....but - as you can tell - i am keen on (relatively) modern boards.