Things in surfing have changed in the last few years. As with fashion, surfing is cyclical–the old becomes new and the new becomes old, like Oakley blades and horn-rimmed glasses. Such is the case with the twin-fin, a board nearly rendered irrelevant when Simon Anderson won the 1981 Bells Beach event on his new-fangled thruster. Twin fins, though, have reemerged, mostly because the average Joe got tired of riding a pencil thin board built for Kelly Slater and even Kelly Slater got tired of the same old thing.
Here we see Filipe Toledo, a dyed in the wool high-performance surfer stepping out of his comfort zone and onto a twinnie… and it’s surprisingly easy on the eyes.
