fins or no fins??????

[Turnocity]

yo,

so I've been wakeboarding now for about 4 or 5 weeks behind a sea doo wake. i can cut heelside and toeside well, and can jump w2w. but since it is a seadoo and the wake is smaller, airtime is limited and i want to start working on surface tricks,
i am using the fins now but what are the advantages disadvantages of using them and not using them. i don't even know what they are for. and by the way the board is a 2005 hyperlite state with 1.1 a wings. any thoughts would be appreciated!
thanks!

[cdn_ripper]

Wakeboarding with fins is the same behind a boat or behind a seadoo. To do surface tricks get smaller fins but your board Wont have that much grip in the watter and will be really loose

[toughnuts88]

man ive been riding for about 5 weeks to just on the week ends and with a 140 movement from hyperlite with 2 fins in all being 2" each i have a real hard edge but surface tricks throws me very easy. So this week end i have 1" p-wings coming to use.I hope that will help me out. last week i tried it with out any wings and it was easy to do 3 but very hard to get air. it was hard to get air with my wings to because of how big they were. Just stick with small fins man

[pointblank12]

to start out doing sruface tricks, slow the boat (or seadoo down) to about 15-17 mph. the slower boat speed will let your fins free themslevs. ae you just trying surface 180's? if u are, i would recommend tryin ollie 180's.

[HatzicMotive140]

yah surface tricks on a wakeboard are not really great, unless you need to get used to doing the movement, but having bigger fins makes it easier to get air b/c you can edge in harder to the wake making you get more hight and throwing that huge whirlybird....

[Turnocity]

hmmm....
i did'nt realize that the larger fins made it easier to edge in harder, and get more edge, good info, thanks for the comments everyone!