FINS OR FINLESS POLL

xsvfreako · Posted: May 26, 2009 8:20 am Post subject: FINS OR FINLESS POLL

i ride with both fins cuz im a noob

Nooga678 · Posted: May 26, 2009 8:34 am Post subject:

I ride with fins. I thought about taking them off, but then I decided to hell with it. I like em on, and don't care to spend the time learning to ride with them off. However, they are only like .5" so they aren't that big.

Sandbagger · Outlaw Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 154

I rode with fins the first day riding, finless after that. Will feel really loose in the beginning but once you learn to ride you will not know the difference and will not miss the fins. My boards do have molded fins though.

Sandbagger · Outlaw Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 154

Also, I am much less likely to catch edges on w2w landings, surface spins and butterslides. And I really hate face plants. Laughing

JeffreyCH · Posted: May 26, 2009 8:48 am Post subject:

My board has the outer molded in fins, I ride without the center fins.

Medina · Posted: May 26, 2009 8:55 am Post subject:

I ride with/witouth fins depending on what for tricks i want to do, butterslides ect can be so much cooler witouth fins.

crashhappy · Outlaw Joined: 04 Aug 2008 Posts: 116 City: Acworth

I've been riding finless this summer and I'm having alot more fun.....I'm able to do more than just jump and hurt myself. I only miss the fins when my legs get tired cuz you really got to work at it.

kdip · Posted: May 26, 2009 10:55 am Post subject:

I only rode finless with my 04 Parks board, but now I got an 09 recoil. Anyone ride finless with their Recoils?

dbismyname · Posted: May 26, 2009 11:00 am Post subject:

poll doesn't really work out unless you take into account that some people have featureless bottoms nowadays.

I ride a response so I'm ridin fins, but when I was on a trip I was finless

b33nine · Soul Rider Joined: 04 Sep 2008 Posts: 311 City: Salem-ish

I use fins, don't see the benefit of riding without for myself. I've got no problems breaking the board loose if I want to do things like butterslides and whatnot and I don't want any kind of squirrely landings.

Probably has more to do with just being used to riding with them in though really.

Rhawn · Posted: May 26, 2009 12:26 pm Post subject:

ctgretzky99 · Posted: May 28, 2009 8:11 am Post subject:

Took them off after my first couple of months back on the board, and liked it a lot better. Was a little odd at first, but I feel like I learned to edge better without them.

holdsworth · Posted: May 28, 2009 9:56 am Post subject:

I like to ride finless better but currently ride with fins since my PBV2 doesn't have them molded in Sad

. Sticks a lot more than I want it to but I just need to go to a shop and get smaller ones.

get_sum · Soul Rider Joined: 04 Aug 2008 Posts: 395 City: Edmond

anyone ride an 07' Murray without fins? Mine has two very small molded in "rails". I took the fins out and it is crazzzzy loose.

savage3221 · Posted: May 28, 2009 3:46 pm Post subject:

STANG KILLA SS · Posted: May 28, 2009 6:12 pm Post subject:

not much choice on a slingshot. full fins here.

Chad H · Posted: May 28, 2009 7:30 pm Post subject:

Riding with mine in on the 3ds, but they are smaller than the 1.1's that came with. I think they are .8 or .7

I like it. It breaks loose, but as plenty of hold and traction for landings.

bonsaitree · Outlaw Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 198

I ride with .7 a wings and the molded in ones on the board. The 1.5 ers that came with my motive were way too big and annoying, after riding for a couple months finless I decided I wanted a little bit more locked in so I picked up some . 7s from the local shop for free. I've got a covenant for fun though, so its nice to have a little of both worlds.

Medina · Posted: May 29, 2009 12:23 am Post subject:

My fins were 1.0''ers but after some session i guess there's only 0.8'' over Laughing

ronix_brendo · Posted: May 29, 2009 3:48 am Post subject:

i ride with the fins on my ronix one. cuts like a b!tch and still breaks loose easy for butterslides and what not Very Happy

J.unio.R · Outlaw Joined: 23 Feb 2009 Posts: 154 City: E-City, NC

Finless, Ive never ridden any other way so I dont know what it would be like with fins.

velocity · Newbie Joined: 27 Sep 2008 Posts: 6 City: Bentonville

Blindside_137 · Posted: Jun 01, 2009 8:38 am Post subject:

ps3 finless, ronix one with 4

Medina · Posted: Jun 01, 2009 9:01 am Post subject:

I have to say that, riding with or without fins behind a boat is completely different then when you ride at a cablepark, to get air behind a boat fins arent so important, but at a cablepark you need a really killingstrongedge (what a word) to get in the air, fins might be usefull.

Stephan · Guest

Junior, it's funny that you say that when the two boards listed on your profile have some of the longest/deepest molded fins available. The term "finless" is a misnomer. True finless boards are Slingshot or Roams and for wake riding they just don't work so hot finless, not saying some can't make it happen.

That being said, I ride a Transcend with molded fins but don't use the extensions, I ride with 4 corner fins.

pet575 · Posted: Jun 03, 2009 9:35 am Post subject:

I ride with 4 corner fins, but they are the ones that are curved toward the centerline of the board. Thinking about pulling them off and putting some shorter and straighter ones in their place to make it easier to break them loose.

Josh 154 · Criminal Joined: 04 Jun 2009 Posts: 78 City: Wall Lake

get_sum · Soul Rider Joined: 04 Aug 2008 Posts: 395 City: Edmond

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

I've always ridden with fins. But the last few years getting into wakeskating changed that. The finless skates are so loose that when I would switch back to a wakeboard with center fins I'd end up catching them on butterslides or something stupid. I pulled them off 2 years ago and haven't looked back. Now my Watson feels almost too tight even without fins.

dr.fowler · Criminal Joined: 24 May 2009 Posts: 55 City: Riverton

I've always liked the stability of big center fins, but I actually think it's been holding me back on my tricks, because I think it's caused me to fall a lot if I'm not really precise on landings. I just got a new LF witness, and I'm not going to put the center fins on and see how it does with just the molded corner fins. I'm going to try the loose feel this year. Anyone want my LF 1.1" fins and bolts?