marty72 said..Great surfing, but it made me think how much better would he surf on a proper step up in the waves of consequence? I mean if you gave Roger Federer a wooden racket strung with cat gut from 100 years ago he would still kick your arse in tennis.
Fair point and to some point I do agree with what your saying, however it's also one of those things from an archeological point of view where if you can master or even be competent on a twinnie/fish/log/single fin it transfers to your shortboard surfing.
I don't think he would surf it better on a normal shortie , I have a few mates that ride single fins solely when it's double overhead and bigger that's it.
It's not always about jamming 4 turns to the beach, sometimes it's more for the honour.
I like seeing a mal pull in at north point , or a single fin rider negotiate a point break barrel, a Twinnie sliding across a step in a wave barely holding on..
The thing with Twinnies is they make 1-2 foot waves fun for the average surfer, a 7 foot single fin in the hands of an average surfer on a point break may allow in one surf more waves and tube time than they would get out there's in 10 surfs on a shortie.
Closing statement:
Whilst hard to believe the average surfer if they spent 3-6 months on a board like this would have half a chance of going out and getting barrels like this, thicker board way way more volume so you can actually catch waves.
Everyone wants high performance shredding but first you have to catch the wave, most twinnies at 6 foot high are around 40-45 litres most new boards Merrill/csi/etc etc many people would be trying to tackle those waves on a 30 -35 litre 6,6 model and to be honest yeah performance would improve but the video would be two waves as that's all you would catch.
