Welcome back to another ‘Ask The Experts’, where we bring to you discussions, insights, rants, news, our general thoughts about the SUP industry and of course still answer your questions we have had over the last month. We hope you enjoy.
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jonathan Hebert
2 years ago
hi guys 🙂 glad to see you all back!!! Totally agree with you on how a carbon fin is marginal gains, you actually mentioned a fin a raced with for four years and it’s a fantastic up grade for Racing or Touring – the K4 race fin 21cm ( i found the 24cm was a little bit slower). I did change to the black project Tiger v2 for flat water racing early last year after trying a few different fins and found it to give me easier speed and glide and really sharp on the buoy turns ( i only… Read more »
Great to hear your comments on this Jonny. Always good to get your insight and tips.
JohnnyChaos
2 years ago
Agree with the comments that doing multi-sports gives you more time on the water. I’ve found prone surfing lets us get out on days when the wind & chop make sup a bit of a chore. Bodyboard for those heavy shorebreak days that would snap your sup, and Windsurf for the flat windy days. I gave my self a challenge last winter of catching at least one wave a week as motivation to go right through the winter (which gets pretty cold in East Yorkshire) and riding gear from an 11ft Blend to a 6’11 fish gave me a 7… Read more »
hi guys 🙂 glad to see you all back!!! Totally agree with you on how a carbon fin is marginal gains, you actually mentioned a fin a raced with for four years and it’s a fantastic up grade for Racing or Touring – the K4 race fin 21cm ( i found the 24cm was a little bit slower). I did change to the black project Tiger v2 for flat water racing early last year after trying a few different fins and found it to give me easier speed and glide and really sharp on the buoy turns ( i only… Read more »
Great to hear your comments on this Jonny. Always good to get your insight and tips.
Agree with the comments that doing multi-sports gives you more time on the water. I’ve found prone surfing lets us get out on days when the wind & chop make sup a bit of a chore. Bodyboard for those heavy shorebreak days that would snap your sup, and Windsurf for the flat windy days. I gave my self a challenge last winter of catching at least one wave a week as motivation to go right through the winter (which gets pretty cold in East Yorkshire) and riding gear from an 11ft Blend to a 6’11 fish gave me a 7… Read more »
Sounds good Johnny you keep charging.