Fin less surf boards ??

[55funsurf]

My lady gave me a deeper shade of blue for Xmas.

My son and me were blown away with the whole movie

Does anyone out there have any advice on where to start with riding a wooden fin less board

I have seen one guy riding one locally but he was mostly doing spins

I am more interested on more main stream rather than tricks

Ross

[oldmansurfer]

I saw Kelly slater riding a table on a wave but I am not going to buy one If you were in Hawaii then there would be no problems since a finless wooden board has been ridden here since way back when. The ones that are more popular are called alaia. You can probably google that.

[jaffa1949]

55 I hope the movie hasn't evoked a midlife crisis.
The finless revolution ( lots of them) a whole paradigm of surfing that Hawaiians have been doing for years.
Most like me who try understand why fins were invented. But if you can score a good ride the sensation of almost drag free surfing is amazing.
They teach you to really be able to set a rail.
Try this Tom Wegener is the maker of a whole range of boards and also supplies the material to make them.
http://www.tomwegenersurfboards.com/
There is also this site
http://www.paulowniasurfboardsupplies.c ... boards.php

Happy new year

[55funsurf]

Thanks Jaffa

I think I live in a permanent state of mid life crisis lol

Just watching finless on the movie made my son and me think about how much a persons surfing could develop with finless

I imagine it would take a fair bit of practice and I think it would be difficult in crowded sydney conditions

I love watching Hawaiian surfers and surfing

They seem at one with the ocean be it on big or small waves ....

[oldmansurfer]

It's all about rail turns and I guess most surfers don't think about how much the rail holds the turn but having started out with a finless body board I know all about rail turns. Of course without a fin the rail design becomes much more critical.

[drowningbitbybit]

I imagine it would take a fair bit of practice and I think it would be difficult in crowded sydney conditions

There's a surfer just down the road from you at maroubra who rides one with no problem!
I'm astonished that he can do it on the steep dumpy waves at the 'bra. It looks a lot of fun, but awesomely difficult!

[oldmansurfer]

Finless wooden boards
http://data.bishopmuseum.org/ethnologydb/type.php?type=surfboard

[IB_Surfer]

I had my shaper make me a finless fiberglass board, I was able to ride it in many conditions. If you don't want to just spin it then go with a fiberglass option, I rode it a lot for one year than got bored with it LOL