Why 101 Bamboo fins?

The 101 Bamboo fin by Marlin Bacon,  hands down gives surfboards the best fin performance period!  Not only are they super light, look good, but they have a flex pattern impossible to find in any other type of fin layup.  The difference I have found over the last 17 years of using them is their ability to load and unload multiple times throughout bottom turns, top turns and roundhouse cutbacks.  Often you will come out of a roundhouse with more speed than you did going into the turn.  I mostly use the high aspect twin version, tri fins and quads.  Every once and a while you will see a pair of glass on side bites and maybe a box fins as well. 

            At first the feeling of the bamboo fins on your boards will seem like the board is wiggling or loose under your back foot but, I think of it a different way.  The fins make the board feel alive and it just takes you, (the surfer) time put in on the board to figure out the timing of the loading and unloading of the fins as you are on the wave.  Once your key into that timing a lightbulb will go off and you will have the ability to create a burst of speed at any given moment on any part of the wave. 

            I truly credit these fins to making me a better surfer.  They have not only provided me with unbelievable sessions, but my clients have enjoyed them all over the world.   Think about these fins as you order your next Josh Hall Custom.  Yeah, you need to be a little more careful in and around the rocks with them (from dings) but the speed and joy you will have in your sessions will be unmatched by other surfers in the lineup.