board with fins

by Graham

Backloops are fun.

 

With some decent swell, I can test boards and tune my quiver to be ready for the coming waves. With a brand new stick from quatro, I was set for a full day of testing and tweaking. The Keith Teboul custom has 5 fin boxes so I can ride the board with 4 fins, 3 fins, 2 fins, or 1 fin. Options! Options! Options!

I first went out with it as a quad and it felt good but a little uncontrollable in the turns and it didn’t connect from the bottom to the top as smoothly as I wanted. So I tried it as a thruster! In the back I had a K4 standard 15cm fin (i love the flex!) and on the sides I had K4 custom asymmetrical 12cm fins. This felt good but it ultimately was too stiff, so I switched out the 15cm back fin for a production K4 14cm fin. This set up was magic! The board was fast and loved to be on the rails. And the best bit was that the flexy fins allows me to rocket through my bottom turn top turn transition.

With my old dumpster diver quad and this new thruster, I feel ready for all of the arriving waves.

 

Throwing the tail out in a cutback.

 

Hitting the lip