Fins for wakeboard

Snipermonkey456 · Criminal Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 62 City: Granbury

I ride my CWB Sol without fins. How many of you are like me and ride with none? Not including molded fins

Blake · Posted: Aug 16, 2005 5:25 pm Post subject:

Sliders arent fin friendly... Zero, nada, zilch

Blindside_137 · Posted: Aug 16, 2005 5:33 pm Post subject:

are you saying, 2 or more in tip/ 2 or more in tail or are you saying 2 total? Confused

if so, i ride my blindside seesion with 2 total fins that are 2.25" ya i know there huge, im plainning one gettting some 1 inchers...

WakeSyco · Soul Rider Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Posts: 338 City: avondale

fins are like training wheels use them if you have to.

ballywho · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 1725

Do you count molded in fins??? I either ride 9 or 1...
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NHWakeRider · Criminal Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 93

just 2 molded fins at each end

Snipermonkey456 · Criminal Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 62 City: Granbury

See i started whith 2 fins on front and back but found it harder to get up and when i did get up harder to turn so I took them off and thought everything was much much easier

Snipermonkey456 · Criminal Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 62 City: Granbury

See i started whith 2 fins on front and back but found it harder to get up and when i did get up harder to turn so I took them off and thought everything was much much easier

ttuclint · Addict Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 984 City: Lubbock, TX

ummmm... 6.

Beaver · Posted: Aug 20, 2005 10:04 am Post subject:

4, 1 on each corner. I used to ride 6 but then tried 4 and i like the ride a whole lot better its a LF Team.

Snipermonkey456 · Criminal Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 62 City: Granbury

I do not understand the point of 4 and six fins! you guys should try no fins if you have been wakeboarding for a while I'll bet you will like the feel.
Also you cannot do sliders and rails if you have them.

Smokinheels07 · Posted: Aug 20, 2005 3:31 pm Post subject:

shouldn't u be able to do sliders w/molded fins?...its the same material as the board and creates a level surface from fin to fin

pooser · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 4738

Snipermonkey456, you ride a sol. that board has like eight fins, right... molded in fins count as fins. i ride my absolute and premier finless, four fins.

Snipermonkey456 · Criminal Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 62 City: Granbury

The Headless Chicken, My sol only came with two and thats the most you clould put in.

matt1808 · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 1981

Snipermonkey456, Your board has molded in fins (you can't remove them). A lot of newer boards have at least 2 molded in fins at each end. That is why most peoples are 4 or higher.

Snipermonkey456 · Criminal Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 62 City: Granbury

matt1808, I did not mean molded fins just fins you can screw in.

ballywho · Wakeboarder.Commie Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 1725

OK then, I ride with 1 fin on the nose of the board so Its easier to ride switch. However, counting molded in fins I ride with 9 so...
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jayp · Criminal Joined: 13 Aug 2004 Posts: 69 City: Portland

I have six fins. Two .9' cupped side fins on each end an a 1" center fin on each end " LF Litmus". They are not very big. I ride without the center fin sometimes. Never taken off the side fins though. I imagine the board would ride way too loose.

Also, some of those molded in fins are bigger and run longer down the length of some boards. You need to take into acount that molded in fins are still fins. You just can't remove them. The few boards that I have ridden with molded in fins were not nearly as loose as my board. So just because you ride with screw in fins, you still might be riding with less actual fin surface overall.

finkle · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 4067

Snipermonkey456, I think you need to ride more boards to understand that boards ride differently w/ different size and amounts of fins.

for example:
board A might ride the same as board B but with an extra fin on each end depending on size and shape.

In addition, a board with three small fins (like .7's or so), may ride looser than a board with one 2.25 on each side.

Catch my drift here?