Dangers of Surfboard Fins

That depends, are they on the board or flying across the room straight at your face?

 

Pro Teck fins are good for kids and beginners. They have soft edges so they won't slice you as easily.

I still have a knot on the inside of my thigh from my fin hitting me in the shorebreak on a DOH day, trying to get out, tired, mis-timed it and KA-BAM!. I totally kooked it and got drilled and the board got loose and I got nailed. Luckily I had on a wetsuite or I could have bled outte.

Maybe that's why there are fin set ups that look like flip flop straps (see Metard's WTF!!! tread).

 

They cut me so good. Gets my **** hard.

 

I did a floater on a head high wave, lost it and fell on my flipped board and was sliced good right below my bicep. Drove myself to the ER and got 6 stitches and a recommendation that I stay out of the water for 2 weeks at the beginning of a run of tropical systems, late August. It really sucked, fins are dangerous.

 

I think you didn't do the floater fast enough because it wasn't a close out and there are no such things as close outs.

 

Confirmed, no such thing as close outs.

EDIT: 100th post!

 

I just saw a kid get skegged in the face yesterday. He certainly got stiches. Right on his cheek he had a big gaping vahina.

 

about 15 years or so ago took a skeg to my rt foot. about 20 stitches. some hurricane swell, fin broke off kinda glad it did probbably could've been worse

 

Design idea: a fin with a soft rubber edge. All the flex u want in the bulk of the body, with a 3-5mm soft edge for these moments. With current technology of plastic compounds im sure it would be possible to fuse these.

Kinda like this :



Or fit something of this soft onto the edge:

 

Great idea. Patent it.

 

You mean like these?



http://www.surfcohawaii.com/Pro-Teck-Fins-s/26.htm

 

Yes they are dangerous, I have multiple scars on both feet, one that is still healing from last week actually and I have a healed but still fresh and pink scar on my right side just above my hip that needed stitches but I didn't get any. Got that one from my wipeout in PR back in April when I dislocated my shoulder. The scar is still fresh looking and may not fade away. Never felt it cut me though, prob cause I could only feel my shoulder out of the socket at the time.

 

My fin cut my foot surfing Gloria swell. The "doctor" sewed up sand and sea monkeys in the wound. Got gangrene, had a muscle and artery removed, layed up for 3 months. After that I'd have the fins filed down. They would make a sound like blowing across a bottle top when cranking a bottom turn. 10 years later got hit by a fin in my other foot. Some azzhole with kelp cutting fins.

 

Yeah, dude!

But awesomer, cause I thought of it, of course.

 

most definitely. so much so you should probably stop using them

 

Take the fins off your board and install some tissues for the whining

 

Hahaha Roy says this works, creates lots of "drive"

 

Gloria??!!?? That was 1985....long time ago, man!!
I bought my sailboat 2 days before it hit up here in New England.

 

Knew a guy whose board flipped over as he wiped out - he fell on his board and a fin sliced open his nutsack! They sewed it back up and he was ok - coulda been worse!