^^^agreed
for me I love love love the pivot off the tail in the top turn that stiff G-10 mains give you.
I feel a big difference between G-10 and moulded glass, so plastic is just too bendy.
Maybe that is just a fatman perspective.
However I am bemused that we spent 30 years going
away from moulded plastic due to it being too bendy, and suddenly people are happy with it again
so I wonder if for many it is a price motivated decision and also as the difference is not easily noticed in a 9cm side fin ?
I also don't rate very highly at all the marketing statement that
so many pro's used a certain moulded plastic fin, in the same post that shows a pic of a big single fin..... it makes noobs think you can make a 50cm fin out of recycled coke bottles and its the same as a $400 carbon. But clearly they are talking about small wave fins and paid riders. When was the last time u saw a paid rider or particularly a magazine slam ANY product?
OTOH if the new thermoplastic is stiff enough to make a 30+cm freeride fin work maybe I need to try some.
Yes indeed- you can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in sugar.
