hey whyner, that video is insane!!! I have tried wakeboarding on a skim board with out fins before and I had no hope!!
I wonder why he's not standing up??

james

Twinnies look loose as for riding.

as for jumping - back in the day when thrusters were happening the jumps went to **** cos they didnt jump with straight predictable projection - (same deal with aerials out of the lip)- there semed to be a 15 degree variance (random) in your trajectory - which is death wehn setting up for a big fwd of looking for predictable upwind projection in a backie.

after 2 years i went back to a single and realised that my jumping and aerial skills hadnt actually gone downhill


i am wondering if any of this nonsense will happen with the smaller twin fins?

So gremlin you rate the board for gerroa huh? Good to see you got sum wind today, hows the shoulder?

Lets hope the swell hangs in there, Gerroa could be the goods!

yeh peto board worked well at gerroa mite get some of my old twinnys out .
shoulder ok bit sore today just have to sail like a old man for couple of months good to be sailing again .

I rode my first twinnie today (evil 80), was a fun ride, they real crank if your on the face of the wave but tend to slow down out in the flat, cutbacks are fun, the first one turned so hard and fast i thought i was going to hit myself in head with the nose of the board, and kept is speed right through the turn.
But my single fin quatro held it's speed out in the flat and tended to go straight back at the wave at full speed. Had more speed on the wave too.
Maybe hookipa is too fast for the twinnies, and a single suits it better..

Hey Peto did you go to birdi today with Ma?

sweet as Ma, looks like your NE seasons started already. you must have looked like Kauli on your Quatro and Boxers..

do you wear your boxers over your wetty ma?

saw a jp twin today, it did look slowish and i was pointing a fair bit higher....but incredible turning and a lot of POP for the jumps...


at 230cm are boards getting too short?

WINDY MILLER said...

at 230cm are boards getting too short?

My 83L RRW is 232 and I love it. The short length makes it very snappy and awesome in the air, to be honest i've never thought to myself "I wish it was 240". That said I think I don't think you could really go much sub 230 before it could become 'interesting'.

At our local today the twin fins were out in force. macking 4.5 weather to light 5.3 later, with cross on to cross off head to logo size waves.

The Mistral twin 76 and 84 went under the feet of a number of sailors using sails from 4.7 to 5.8 and the word was all good. Most were surprised by the turning ability and the get up and go for such a short board. more tighter turns than you can poke a stick at.

A couple of evil twin 74's were being thrown around with no downside reported. A 74 kg guy on the 74, used to the 70 ltr as his main board, was stoked that the ET 74 handled fully maxed 4.7 conditions just as well as his old 70 and then gave more float when the wind dropped.

Blair was a bit late, but managed to push his Jp twin thru some nice carves before giving it and his shoulder a closer look at some reef and rocks.

So far the verdict is all good on the twin fin boards.

There were also some serious gouges from a couple of single fin riders - the guy on an evo and s-1 was making impossibly late cutbacks, ripping the throat out of the wave in huge style. Very impressive watching that and his super stalled backloops.

A good weekend was had by all. - one day I'll learn how to sail properly!

Scotty Mac said...

Rode a JP 84 today. The wind was a bit light at first so it was like towing a bucket and I did not like it at all. Then the wind picked up and it was sweet. Not sure about the volume. Felt more like a 75 to me. Worked better with the fins at the fron too. Wicked board for aerials. Seemed save in the white wash too. Felt much better on a 5.0 than my 5.4. Need one more ride on it before I am convinced. One thing I know for sure is that I would not be my choice if I could only have one board in my quiver.

I found it took a couple of sails to sort it out with the twins. Theres a few things I found I needed to change slightly with my stance and weighting ect to make it work at first but after using them fora while I swear by them. Works just like a good loose single fin board but better. I agree with what you said about the fin position and also the base position, I found you can really change the feel of the board with even 5mm movements of the fin or base, so its well worth having a play around with them. Used the 76 down at gerroa on the weekend and it felt as good as the 68.
As far as the speed and upwind ability goes they are just like any other waveboard with a decent amount of rocker, fast eddie would be a good one to comment on this as hes been sailing next to them for a couple of months now.

geeze, that one in the middle looks the goods

Yer i'm going try some MFC 165's on the Evil 80, Starboard fins seam way too stiff, anyone played with fin position on the Evil yet?

What's the rule with fin position to foot strap position on twinnie's?

I know on a single you run the leading edge of the fin in the middle of the strap, but the twinnies seam to be straight under the strap.

Pingu,
You failed to include the whole artical which later said that this issue was resolved by fitting smaller fins. JP also responed that the 84 litre was targeted to heavier sailors.