(Retro) Fish twin fins feedback

[hit_the_lip]

I love surfing retro fishes. So fast and drive down the line amazing. The great thing about a retro fish, is they work in almost anything. I use mine in smaller-medium range waves, but they work in good waves too. It's a nice alternative to jump on when just want to catch a bunch of waves and have fun. Highly recommended, every surfer should have one in the quiver.

[eaNYC]

I love surfing retro fishes. So fast and drive down the line amazing. The great thing about a retro fish, is they work in almost anything. I use mine in smaller-medium range waves, but they work in good waves too. It's a nice alternative to jump on when just want to catch a bunch of waves and have fun. Highly recommended, every surfer should have one in the quiver.

completely agree with this. i used to longboard a lot in small waves but have pretty much given it up for a retro fish... catches waves just as easily and is super fun to zip around on. on bigger waves (up to a foot or two overhead) it feels a little bit out of control in a really fun way... kinda like snowboarding too fast but with no consequences. i keep finding myself taking out the fish even when prevailing wisdom would suggest otherwise.

[jaffa1949]

i have 3 slightly different retro fish, 2 with keel fins on it, and another one is a quad, im a shaper and i weight 144 lbs and i am 5'8".

Before the analysis of the different shapes of boards, you should always notice that other factors are extremely important when deciding to buy a surfboard, and the 2 important ones are the rocker and volume, the more volume and less rocker you have, the faster the board will go, but the lack of rocker affects its performance for hollow waves, and a lot of volume can let the board to be less sensitive when turning at high speeds.

Here are their dimensions
5'3" 20" 2 3/16 - 26 liters (grey colour and twin fin)
5'4" 19 1/2" 2 3/8" - 28.2 liters (light blue and glass on wood keel fins)
5'5 20 1/8" 2 7/17"" - 29 liters (light green and quad)

Review of the 5'3" 20" 2 3/16 - 26 liters
This one look like those squid fish from ryan burch, and since its a board with less volume, its better for doing super tight turn at high speed, as i fell that, the more volume and the faster i am, the harder it its for turns. This board really feel like a these performance thruster, but with way less rocker, im not kidding.

5'4" 19 1/2" 2 3/8" - 28.2 liters (light blue and glass on wood keel fins)
As this one have that classic wide tail fish look, it loses that tight pivot turning, and provides more open archs. If you want a board to cruise and really enjoy the line, thats the one, but if u want to still have this fish for turns, try to lose some of the volume, as it loses it fluctuation it helps the boards to "stick" more to the wall of the wave.

5'5 20 1/8" 2 7/17"" - 29 liters (light green and quad)
An absolute delight for small waves, the wing helps the swallow to be less wide, so it improves its pivot capacity for turn, it reminds the maneuverability of the first surfboard that i have reviewed, the quad factor actually still gives a lot of drive, but it fells more loose than the keel fin, especially when doing progressive turn, you mught end up losing the tail if you are using small fins.

So, i think the most important thing, when choosing a retro fish, is to not end up with the wrong dimensions for you, i have had a quad fish from cristenson a few years ago with around 33 liters that and 21" width that i just couldnt do turns with it, so, play with your dimensions, and especially, literage right. Always check for those surfboards volume calculator, they always come up in handy.

i will post the photos of the boards, and fell free to take a look at some of the retro fish outlines that i was talking about:


I hope this was helpful, because it would have saved me lots of bucks from that cristenson that i bought before i start to understand all of these stuff.

Cheers!

[IB_Surfer]

I use mine instead of a longboard, twins when it's small or mushy, quads when it's small but dumpy. Used it today in IB, chest high closeouts but fun smaller shoulders, it gets into anything