With or WithOut the fins...?

ShOpOtO · Newbie Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 2

How do you wakeskate?

With or WithOut fins?

I ride both.

With little fins it helps me edging stronger and so i have more control

But without i stick stuffs like shuvit and i just like this "smooth" feeling...

An U ?

How do you ride...

PS: I am a local rider of "Lac du Ponant" of the Grande-Motte from France
See U at the First WakeSkate European Championship, from 22nd to 24th of August at the Lac du Ponant

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

i ride with out they are super tiny

Ryan W · Posted: Feb 22, 2003 12:41 pm Post subject:

I ride with fins.Some times I take them out.

Butta Seeka · Posted: Feb 22, 2003 2:39 pm Post subject:

nope no fins at all i cant stand having fins when i skate it just feels weird to me but its all up to u i guess

x2xwakegurlx2x · Guest

i ride no fins, so it spins easier and stuff for like surface spins without ollieing because i cant ollie on a wakeskate that well, so i use no fins to spin Very Happy

foammesh · Outlaw Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 154 City: Lantana, FL

I like to ride with fins because it makes you pop you're shuvits and it tracks better behind the boat for W2W. I take them off for the cable parks though.

Butta Seeka · Posted: Feb 23, 2003 7:22 am Post subject:

i hate w2w on the skate, but tehn agin i have been skateboardin for awhile so i just like more skateboard kinda tricks, not that the occasionl w2w isnt bad just i prefer like sliders and what not

RUSSIAN · Posted: Feb 24, 2003 2:49 pm Post subject:

I ride finless, I like the loose feeling it gives

Butta Seeka · Posted: Feb 24, 2003 5:04 pm Post subject:

its like the fins seem ponitless to me, they dont seem to do much on the skates

Nathan Newman · Addict Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 711 City: Baylor

I skate when I want something loose, and when I want something loose, why the hell would I have fins?!

foammesh · Outlaw Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 154 City: Lantana, FL

Wow I guess I better take my fins off so I can be like all of you. If all I rode was sliders I wouldn't use them either, but I like to do everything. I'll through more than my share of tech tricks and I like the fact riding with fins makes you pop you're tricks.

Butta Seeka · Posted: Feb 25, 2003 6:00 pm Post subject:

yea but u can land more stuff without the fins

David Legler · Posted: Feb 25, 2003 6:58 pm Post subject:

why do you say that?

Butta Seeka · Posted: Feb 25, 2003 7:01 pm Post subject:

like if u were doin a shuv it but dident rotate it enough the fins would make it shoot off to some side or somethin like that without the fins u just land and correct, but thats my opinion so dont listen to it

David Legler · Posted: Feb 25, 2003 7:09 pm Post subject:

the fins would help get traction back and get the board back straight.....i think so atleast cause they would catch onto the water, w/o fins it wouldn't do it

Butta Seeka · Posted: Feb 26, 2003 1:26 pm Post subject:

hmmm i just prefer a looser feel, and not always to the baord get u back straight i know feel and hit my head on the baord once

foammesh · Outlaw Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 154 City: Lantana, FL

Yea, I don't ride fins cause Brian Grubb doesn't ride fins.

Butta Seeka · Posted: Feb 26, 2003 7:12 pm Post subject:

im wit ya on the not riden fins but ride no fins cause u wanna not cause grubb does

David Legler · Posted: Feb 26, 2003 8:04 pm Post subject:

i haven't tried it w/o fins yet so i can't say that my responses are kind of bias, but i will be sure to try it out once it warms up.

foammesh · Outlaw Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 154 City: Lantana, FL

That is exactly what you should do David. What works for Trevo doesn't work for me, and what works for me doesn't work for Trevo. And since nobody picked up on my sarchasm from my post 3 up, I do ride with fins unless I'm hitting rails. Also, I think that whether you ride a Hype or Cassette makes a difference. The Hypes don't look as loose as the Cassettes because of their turned down rails. I have never ridden a Hype so I might be talking out my arse.

B-rad · Posted: Feb 28, 2003 10:52 am Post subject:

I would like to try ridding one with trip fins on 4 sides, I think that would be a fun way to ride.

kim · Addict Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 588 City: Orlando

no fins

WRRide · Posted: Mar 11, 2003 7:40 am Post subject:

B-rad I am in the process of making a skate and have been seriously thinking about running 4 outside trip fins on it. I might also just make it finless. What does everyone think?

Butta Seeka · Posted: Mar 11, 2003 8:08 am Post subject:

id go with the trip fins i to have considered puting them on my cassette 43 since im gettin the 4trac soon so it would not matter if i messed that one up

wakeriderof87 · Posted: Mar 11, 2003 1:16 pm Post subject:

well couldn't u just put them on, then take them off if they don't work

Butta Seeka · Posted: Mar 11, 2003 2:09 pm Post subject:

yea but know me and my not so great abilitys with tools id break it or the tools or some combination of the both

WRRide · Posted: Mar 12, 2003 8:43 am Post subject:

yeah but that would require me to get trip fins to try it and I am cheap and lazy!!!! But if I feel rich and ambitious I might try it or if everyone and their mother decides it is a real great idea.

Butta Seeka · Posted: Mar 12, 2003 8:55 am Post subject:

my mom said it was a great idea so there u go

Brian B. · Posted: Mar 12, 2003 6:11 pm Post subject:

ill most likely ride finless when i get my board, it should be here in a couple days, i like to be able to do shovits on a snow skate and the board hits the ground and doesnt instantly stop like it would with fins, just like wakes8ertrevo said it makes room for mistake

SKATEwakeBOARDER · Criminal Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 96 City: Jackson GA

I go a little bit of both, I mostly ride with fins though

WRRide · Posted: Mar 13, 2003 9:32 am Post subject:

If your mom says it's a good idea then I guess I have no choice!!!!

ShOpOtO · Newbie Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 2

The fact is i like riding the both way but once i try without and when just after me my dad try he wasn't really happy about this change...
He wasn't able to control everything...
But the funny think is when my mom try this way, she found that it was cool and even easier to do 180 or 360 slide.
In fact she adapts very well in all situations...
(her best trick in wakeboard is a half cab 180°...
but she is 55 years old!)
And i have to say that i'm very proud to have the oldest riders that i know for parents!

PS:
You have talked about trip fins on a wakeskate i do not really see where is the main goal...
may be to change the feeling?
But when u go for a slide u probably go for a crash...!
Or thre may be that there is something that i haven't understand?)

WRRide · Posted: Mar 14, 2003 8:10 am Post subject:

I was thinking only the outside fins. My goal was to gain control but I was thinking the outside trip fins are so tiny that it might allow them to break loose easier???

southsiderider420 · Newbie Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 11 City: beaumont Tx

i like to ride one fin on one side and no fins on the other side i use the fin side for wake stuff and the no fins for shuvits and that kinda stuff

jibn-it-all · Outlaw Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 248 City: apopka

i use fins for wake to wake.. those new cassette ones hold like a bich. for shovits and stuff i learned then without fins. when i put them on the fins forced me to olly harder and get higher. thus making me a better rider. i always take off the fins for sliders.

the trip fins i have also tried. they are in the middle. they give u good enough traction for wake to wake jumps and they give u enough loosness for slidin around and doin lazy shuvits without havin to pop high.

hopes this helps

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