Hey Everyone! I hope you had a chance the last 4 or 5 days to tune into the Fiji Pro! From the MONSTER free surf session last week, to C.J.’s epic comeback of all time in the quarter finals and then ultimately Slater’s win. One thing that BLEW my mind was the number of signature FCS, Future and Kinetik (with a strong showing) Fins that I saw among all of the surfers boards. With Kinetik having Joel Parko’s signature Fin and Joel being absolutely on fire, you knew JP-5′s were going to show up and Kinetik would have a strong presence! Obviously you had people like Julian and Kelly riding their signature fins from FCS prospectively. (It looked like Kelly was on some new prototype of the now FCS K3′s, but this was an orange fin with 11 circles, I’ll keep you posted, but probably a fin that will be released next year sometime.) But, what I was ultimately impressed about was the number of signature fins I saw on boards NOT associated with their surfer surfing them. We saw sets of FCS JF-1′s, PLENTY of FCS GMB Quads and 5-Fins, on everyone’s boards showing you that the PRO’s change up their fins based on real time conditions in an attempt to get an edge on the competition. TBC…
