Just interested in what fins people are using on their freestyle boards. Specifically length. Also if people are making/cutting down their own what t type of fin are they starting with? Also what conditions they are using them in? I know most of the guys on this forum are waveheads but I'm sure you dabble in other things.....
at the moment i only have a 25cm freestyle fin. im planning on getting a 21cm mfc freestyle pro as well.
ive been interested in cutting down some fins to about 15cm but i just want to try it on a cheap oldie first i think.
i havent got one my self, but at work, the most commonly inquired one is the 21.5cm and i think that will change though with the new 2008 MFC shape,
After seeing the fin of an accomplished freestyler and comparing it to my standard fin for 16 knots:
www.peconicpuffin.com/the_peconic_puffin/2007/10/freestyle-fins-.html
I made this fin, which works pretty well. Mine is a cutdown of a stock JP fin that I'd dinged a year ago. I've seen people make good freestyle fins with old blade fins, but the best freestyler in our area (who says a good guideline is wrist to middle-finger tip) starts with a weed fin...he likes the rake and I suspect getting some lift a bit forward.
My fin:
www.peconicpuffin.com/the_peconic_puffin/2007/10/freestyle-fin-1.html
wow thats interesting, i just got a 2008 JP freestyle wave 92, the fin is 27cm, which is pretty big i guess considering what all these people are talking about, will it really make that much difference?
I spose i am sick of nearly breaking my ankles somtimes when i try vulcans
....one day ill nail them
don't know about freestyle but the jp freestyle/wave board go heaps better with a smaller fin, i use to run a 23, but it was narrow, could land chop hops sideways in a slide for fun, awesome boards, just started to fill up with water from some where..
so you's reckon id be better off gettin a 20cm or so freestyle fin for my 92L JP freestyle wave when im trying stuff?
There is an 18cm Choco Freestyle fin that looks pretty cool, reckon that would be the go??
No but I have a damaged one that I don't use. Time to attack it with a grinder I think.
"have you seen the new 2008 mfc freestyle pro, verrrrry different, and verrrry ugly,"
no i havent because they havent updated their site yet. i imagine they would be different because all the pros use them and cut them down. how small do the 2008 ones go?
this was a 28cm i cut down to 19cm and thinned the profile. It planed ealry but spun out alot in one direction. So i've now cut it down to 12cm. let u know how it goes after today hopefully
well it works and although it didn't spin out much more than the usual fin, i lost some ground down wind as you'd expect. It definitely slid around effortlessly. I was using a 5.8 NP Alpha and JP 99 freestyle in about 15 - 18 knots and surprisingly it took no longer to plane than the 23cm fs fin. I was using it in very bumpy chop which didn't help. I reckon on flat water and same wind strength it would be pretty good. 
I use a 20cm MFC freestyle fin, about 5 years old and completely cemetrical - a sort of rounded off pyramid shape... Works great and gets going supprisingly quickly because it is so stiff...
I use a 28 weed fin cut down two an 18 being swept back it comesout of the the water easyier. I prefer it better than my freestlyle fin . I only got a 28 becouse thats all they had at the time so get a bigger one becouse its wider an you can go cut it shorter maybe 15 happy sliding
