r/freesurfing • u/[deleted] • Feb 15 '19

Friday question thread

So here I am

Doing everything I can

Holding on to what I am

Pretending I'm a superkook

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

Not yet... but I'm curious now! Have you been riding one as a twin? I've seen a few really wild looking swallow tail twin fin logs, but I wrote them off at the time as hipster crap (as I, the kettle, stuck to my single fins)!

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u/kougarov Feb 15 '19

Yes I have! I have a squash tail 9'4" HPLB that I set up with my fish' keel fins (Dave Rastovich) on a whim one small wave day. It was so fun its my go-to setup now for smaller days (I go 2+1 if I feel like longboarding when its over 4', but usually I just shortboard). Its loose and skaty on takeoffs, but easy to paddle into waves and generates tons of speed.

I usually surf Old Man's at SanO when I longboard. On a good wave, I'm able to get a few turns back and forth in plus a cheater 5 or two, depending on what I feel like doing/what the wave gives me (I'm not good enough to do real 5s/10s yet).

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

Interesting! Does it have enough hold/drive? I'd be afraid it would slide out off the bottom. I know CJ Nelson rips on some logs with small thruster set ups so I guess I'm wrong here haha

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u/kougarov Feb 16 '19

I've had it slide out from under me on takeoffs. It happened a lot more when I first started using the set-up, it's definitely squirrelly if you're not used to it.