I don't like the feel of keel fins backside but love how regular twins and quads go! I would try a larger or smaller set of fins before giving up on the board.
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Board goes frontside but doesn't go backside
- Thread starter jkb
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This. All 3 of these. It happens to me during BS bottom turns on twins, usually keel fins. Slide out, blow a perfectly good left. Frustrating for sure. Top turns are fine. I don't have this issue on quads.
As GG notes, twin fins closer to the tail seems to help feeling more locked in, less loose- which I especially have come to appreciate as the surf gets bigger.
So, when I'm riding a classic TFK, I tend to stick to rights. Which, let's be honest, I surf rights 70% of the time and prefer anyway.
You all are tripping. It's rained like 80 inches since september and I haven't had a decent session since I got back from mex a month ago. If the sun doesn't come out soon I'm gonna lose it.
The house you have built entirely out of surfboards you didn’t quite click with keeps you dry though
It allowed for better stabs I assume
The boar on the right, I ende dup hating going frontside, but was good on my backside. Frontside I simply could not get the thing going / no speed at all. Backhand went just fine
Go figure... still no idea, but I sold it on
Go figure... still no idea, but I sold it on
I have the same issue with a twinzer (MR/80's style twin shape) I have... it's amazingly fast and turns on a dime backside, but I dig rail and slide out on cutbacks going frontside. I figured it was because I my feet land further back on the board when I pop up backside (so my back foot is at the back of the traction pad) as opposed to frontside where my back foot always lands at the very front of the pad.
Does anyone else have this issue with differing foot placement depending on which way the pop up?
I have issues with differing foot placements, period. I'm just glad when my feet are even fucking remotely in the right spot
Doesn't anyone think to run a different fin on their frontside to their backside to (oops got it backwards lol...backside to frontside) to see what happens. After all peeps do actually buy assymetrical boards and they have twin/quad fin set ups.
Easy potential fix.
Easy potential fix.
I can understand if people have trouble making a board work backside because of their approach or technique, but that doesn't mean the board doesn't go backside. That just means they need to adjust their technique.
But if a board doesn't work for you, then I completely get that and it shouldn't really work frontside or backside, right?
But if a board doesn't work for you, then I completely get that and it shouldn't really work frontside or backside, right?
At the end of the day doesn't the way the board generates speed and turns mostly come down to rocker and rail and fins?
For instance, a board that feels totally dead under your feet but other people are able to ride no problem is going to be a technique issue - you vs the rocker.
For instance, a board that feels totally dead under your feet but other people are able to ride no problem is going to be a technique issue - you vs the rocker.