Glide Family - Wayne Lynch Full Edit

“It’s hard to be specific about the impact of fins, but I would say it’s 30-40% of how the board goes, it’s that important. It’s huge, it can make what feels a bad board feel like a great board and vice versa. That’s why I’m almost pedantic about fins, always have been. It’s integral to how the board goes.” - Wayne Lynch

[@thomasobrien1213]

Wayne is a beast. Very quietly one of the best all around surfers for years.

[@adambamf9365]

I like how critical he is on the industry

[@seankearney5469]

Watching footage of Wayne lynch it takes less than a second to see he was way ahead of his time

[@caseyhansen4567]

Thanks Wayne for inspiring a lot of us goofy foots the storm riders video at ripcurl San clemente in the 80s helped my surfing with the tunes and great waves at the bluff

[@markferrari8955]

Creating a platform that the weight, height, ability of a human being represents one set of variables to perform on another set of variables - a wave - represents perhaps one of the greatest talents a craftsman can make. Awesome

[@michaelgawthorn9639]

Thank you Wayne for your advice. I have been a backyard shaper for more than 50 years now and on my next board shall give your fin theory a go. That board of yours looks good, few boards today have a defined trailing rail edge. I think rails should look like a birds wing, leading and trailing edge designed to use the principles of aerodynamics or in this case hydrodynamics. I guess this style of rail lends itself to big , round turns, which feature heavily in your own style.
By the way my son is studying naval architecture at A.M.C. and is a surfer, we may be able to try tank testing fins one day!

[@davidmurphy4705]

Nice relaxed and informative little chat.

[@sunovadistributionn.z.693]

simple, to the point, nicely understated .. great intro. just saw the dog ;)

[@dvfallon6345]

🙏🙏🙏

[@chrisfindlay5963]

I ride an 8' rounded pin mid length in NZ and am always in debate with myself over fins. I am 65 and when I was in my very young years you used the fins that were glassed onto your board no questions asked. Now I like to experiment with fins but it is expensive. I surf mainly east coast 3' beach breaks. I am not doing vertical snaps or anything too flash now, so cruise and have adapted to mid length surfing. What size centre fin and side fins would you recommend. I am 90kg and 5' 7" tall and intermediate level.

[@larrysloan9296]

Fins are 80 percent of a board