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[@nicke14]

Really interesting to hear about the differences of the fins. Wouldn't mind if you go into more detail. You don't have to judge "this bad" and "this is good", but describe the characteristics. For someone just getting into these fins it would be really valuable information, since any "normal" surfer isn't going to buy one of each to see which one fits the best.

[@joakimyliruusi]

That was impressive! Also like the new music style in the vids, somehow the 80-90s techno stuff goes well with you German windsurfers 🤙

[@AdrianTregoning]

I don't sail slalom at all (mostly wave) but watched, laughed and enjoyed this very much! Keep posting. And I subscribed 🤙🏼

[@thedude6258]

Hey Nico ....yes straight away I could see how the freeride fin killed the speed of the board and nose dive almost,,,haha nice trick from a friend , ,great video I love my carbon fins tools much faster and nicer to use in overpowered conditions and rough water ,I have a new 77 Isonic ,I'm really enjoying testing fins and sails on it ,keep the videos coming ,you had me smiling all the way with this one ..

[@soenkeschmidt9620]

Nice video Nico! Would be super interesting to hear about the impact of a high end custom fin compared to a mass tier carbon fin for below 200 euro (like Select Vmax). Also since a few years the performance freerace boards like Fanatic Jag or Rocket plus Team come with a carbon fin - how much is the difference to a 400 euro fin for lets say the average performance weekend surfer chasing the 35knots speed limit

[@zacpower_9835]

dude i love the concept! never seen any windsurfing videos like this one :D

[@frankhelmke]

Good job, this is one of the most astonishing and eye opening videos about Windsurfing equipment I have seen so far!

[@norfix_]

Glad to see you make more beginner and maybe even non surfer oriented videos to bring more people to windsurfing! Good content sa always

[@postiebren]

Super fun video! Very entertaining :-) I could see a bit of a difference in your sailing between your last two fins. Good on Lar's for trying to trick you! :-)

[@MarioKuempel]

Nice fin comparison...but dude, teach me the jumps!😄🤙🏾

[@imFerry]

Fin land 😂😂😂 🔝🔝🔝 like to the video earned already in the intro! Ciao Nico!!

[@dominiquebukkens3634]

hey Nico, love your video's, after more then 20 years i picked up windsurfing again and i learned a lot of your video's. Its great to feel the board planing again in the footstraps, clear my head from the problems when im on the water.. this feeling is great again..thank you for the video's and keep them posting❤

[@erik.miletic]

Great video, interesting and in same time also very funny! Good idea Lars to try ti trick Nico with freeride fin ;)

[@savadarpini]

Great video as always #MakeWindsurfingGreatAgain

[@horsemadf1]

Very entertaining.. Good video.

[@thomasfolan2716]

I really enjoyed the vid. Very humorous ! I would be crying though if I dinged my carbon fin :)

[@slogo8879]

Very creative, very very interesting for slalom racers! Bravo!

[@matt3nt]

Bravo Nico. What a feeling! Super nice content and funny!

[@c__d0ao990]

Nice video Nico, yes can definitely see the ride difference with the glass/free ride fin! Which of the three high performance fins do you like best and why? Is there really not much difference?

[@niski6388]

That was actually very funny, thanks for this good felling!

[@paulmertz6666]

Great video. Thanks for posting

[@martijnwindsurfing]

Great consistency Nico, I really enjoy your content!!

[@Phil-ry2ux]

Sneaky Lars :) Very interesting and amusing video.

[@ElectroHouseFanXXX]

Nico, great great video and superb content, love it !! Can you please do a video on the differences between freeride , avg carbon (like select) and pro carbon fins? I am surfing with classic freeride fins and would love to know how big is the difference and how much investment is worth. Especially since you said that a freeride fin can't keep up with your fins when it comes to the speed. I would love a deep comparison of speed, lifting, feeling, rigging etc of the mentioned fins

[@ElectroHouseFanXXX]

Also thanks to lars, the idea was brilliant, made it much more interesting for me haha

[@nikemie1]

I do agree with Nico, you can really tell the difference in the fins. Even if you using three different sizes of the same fin brand you can tell. Like 36,37 & 38. I have spent more money on fins than boards. And CHOPPER fins are my favourite they give you so much confidence!!

[@rcggijzen]

Great idea for a video and I'm impressed you managed to identify them 'blindly'. I did not think you (or anyone else) would be able to do so, except maybe when certain fins are really very different in behavior. When you come back to the beach, you seem to step from the board quite late, aren't you afraid the fin will hit the sand? I always use and old glass fin when I sail at sea because I don't trust myself always stopping in time, especially when I'm tired and not really in control anymore. Damaged my first brand new carbon fin on the first session like that :(

[@Andy_XT]

Really interesting! Yes, the difference was noticeable when you had the freeride fin on.

[@davemarch1811]

Thanks Nico for a fun video 😊

[@rudolfbuehler9441]

This is very impressive!!! Great Job

[@eranszekely7806]

Great job out there.

[@kidxrude]

With this specific glass fin you see the boards sits very different in the water. The back of the boards sits too deep, no lift. Every piece of chop was eaten. :P

[@mmilhazes]

Great vídeo!! loved it!!! This fin game was exciting to watch!! 🙏🙏👏👏🚀🚀

[@benlucaborowski365]

My idea is that everytime you jumped you looked under the board for the fin. No but really it was a very nice and entertaining video

[@playlikesapro2263]

Bravo Nico , Bel video as usual ! 👍👍

[@Vok250]

Would be cool if you could review a variety of freeride fins beyond high end slalom ones. Like the ones that come with Starboards retail, those green ones, K4 fins, cheaper carbon fins, etc. Should be possible with your shop.

[@jeroenhessel7535]

Nice job figuring out which fin is which. I am very curious about the feeling of carbon, I bought my first carbon fin yesterday. a Zfins slm -s

[@TheScorbut123]

Gotta say, great content, can't wait to get back on the water and have more cracks at my jibe, seeing so many slow mo gives ideas ;)

[@simongodfrey3765]

Nice video - well done Nico. Amazing that you could identify the fin even with the damage to the tip! Bearing in mind your slalom fins are super expensive and probably out of reach for most sailors, it would've been interesting to have a more affordable, carbon slalom fin too.

[@christophertyack326]

Yes would be nice to have a proper test vidéo of each brands comparison tests with pros and cons of each... Nice vidéo by the way 👌 👍

[@marcelu3904]

Super nice!! The fin is the most common topic in our surf group. Would be nice to have a bigger focus on the fins, brand and types. Offcourse it's all personal preference, but for a amateur would the difference be big to get a budget carbon compared to a finish or zfins? Hope to see some more!!🤙🤙

[@VenhaVe]

Sehr geil!

[@joostkuijsters8946]

Nice one!!! This was a good test for you. But what IS your favoriete fin ? And why?

[@oceannesailor]

Very, very good video. Fun, funny, and very interesting. What a well conceived idea, and very good on Lars to throw in a good curve ball on you too. Well done to both of you, and thanks!!!! Continued Happy windsurfing ~ (edit: finally just subscribed too)

[@fitnessandinjury]

Would love a tutorial on how to jump slalom kit. Of course i can get air but controlling the board from the footstraps on the rail makes landing and riding away very difficult.

[@Nico_GER7]

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[@luciennieman4490]

Nice video again, but I agree with other comments. Carbon fins are expencive. Can you make a video where you test some cheaper carbon fins?

[@kev-the-windsurfer.]

Awesome timing with this video!! I am about to buy some new Fins for my 2021 Futura, after seeing this, I now know I need carbon Fins for more speed and control!! I could totally see the difference in trim between the carbon Fins and that Glass fin, the carbon generates so much more lift, the windward rail and the front of the board sits high, the board has a very small contact area with the water around the tail......It is not possible to sail a board with a glass fin like that, I know this because I have been trying it.......but for sure, I thought it was quite easy to see the difference, although pretty much impossible to tell the difference between the carbon fins though.

[@mareknowakowski4246]

Great video

[@chrisk7150]

Oh god, when you pulled the z fin out of the case, your WTF was exactly like when I first saw it broken :( RIP "Z SLM 36" ????-2022 You were a great fin for choppy conditions

[@ingotaraske6996]

Funny video, in particular using the Freeride fin. It would be interesting to blind test against a race glas fin as well. So a broken Z-Fin equals a Carpenter or a Chopper? 🤨

[@lucahoffmann4508]

Sehr nice idee🤙

[@albertodellaira8071]

ciao NICO... GOOD ANALISYS😉👍

[@galensk]

Hi , Nice vid and great editing 👍👍👍, what is your opinion about the standard Drake Fin which is delivered standard by starboard in for example the Futura...

[@matteodellafiorentina2794]

amazing video

[@DidiHo]

Super Videos...leider kann ich wenig Englisch.... mit deutschem Untertitel wäre super. War die Starboard Freeride Finne so viel schlechter als die teueren Carbon Finnen? Kann man solche Carbon Finnen als Aufsteiger Level Surfer auf einem normalen Freerider die Vorteile raus fahren?

[@westwindsailer]

Great video! I can tell the difference in my fins, but they are huge size differences..lol.

[@SportSoulLife]

Suomi mainittu!

[@mimcan70]

where to place and stick the centre fin for a diy sup windsurf inf.board? right under the mast bottom connection is good or not? i ve ordered 2x same size 21cm height freeride flex fins for the same sup board... will that just work fine for starter,/intermediate level surfer?

[@TecColsmp]

Des informations sur les tailles et les modèles? Et pourquoi pas sonntag, vraiment un cran en dessous , ou est ce un peu un effet psychologique pwa... Et un kashy? Alors tout compte fait, est ce seulement le feeling par rapport au shape de la board , sachant que certaines marques n'arrivent pas à reproduire à l'identique. ... Alors..que proposez à un amateur en terme de qualité. ..sonntag. .slx ou slpro ...?

[@alteisentv]

It‘s Sunday, and you know what that means: It‘s time for Send it… Ahhh, that was the little other channel 😉 Cool content but what a shame for the expensive fin. How would it perform in good shape without damage on the tip?

[@SoerenMikkel]

So which one is your favourite fin😎

[@nikemie1]

It must be the Z fins it still works 😄

[@laurenstuijt8786]

hey nico, i have watched quite a few of your videos. Your advice on harness lines has always been to have short lines, but in this video you've got longer lines then usual. Is there a reason behind that and could you maybe explain the difference between long and short lines?

[@Nico_GER7]

Where do I talk about short lines?

[@timorunge]

Z FIN of course, no question about it.

[@Nico_GER7]

😜

[@Nico_GER7]

Already had a minor crack before from a previous incident.

[@janhoffmann4122]

Seid Ihr mit Starboard aufm Surf-Festival und habt auch SUPs dabei?

[@Nico_GER7]

Jap, wir werden da sein. Sogar mit Surfcenter :-). Die Veranstaltung macht unser Deutscher Importeur, deshalb weiß ich nicht genau, ob SUPs auch dabei sind.

[@Nico_GER7]

Ich nehme aber an, dass ja.

[@spamacc7590]

The board wasn’t flying as much with the glass fin

[@sergeyepifanov1232]

Thank you for the video from Odessa, Ukraine! Due to the war, that Russia started in our country, we are unable to surf at the sea, mines are all the way. So that summer I will try a little lake near the city. Can You feel the difference between surfing in fresh or saltwater?

[@Nico_GER7]

Hi Sergey, no day passes without my thoughts being with you and your country. It's a tragedy for human kind and I'm praying for piece and compassion. I know this doesn't help, but know that you're not forgotten. I hope you can windsurf in peace soon. And yes, I can tell a small difference between salt and lake water. Sometimes you may need 0,5cm more fin in the lake.

[@sergeyepifanov1232]

Hello Niko. A pleasure to know, that someone far away thinks about us. Your videos and tutorials are awesome and a picture and locations are amazing, so it helps us (Our little surf club, of five friends) to think about the future and gives a hope for better times. Currently, in Odessa, there is a lack of fuel and the only lake that I can get to, riding a bicycle, trailing my board, is 150 meters wide and 400 meters long. Not enough for a glide, but better, than nothing) Thank you very much for your advice. Wish the best for You and your Surf center!

[@Nico_GER7]

@@sergeyepifanov1232 Wow! This really makes you realize how small your own problems are. Thanks for the insight. I wish you guys the best and a lot of strength!!!

[@karolbronson9463]

@@sergeyepifanov1232 Hope You are not worse now than 2 years ago!

[@joostkuijsters8946]

Haha ! I saw you looking at your fin wil jumping, at 5.41 min. Caught you cheating!

[@Nico_GER7]

😂 You can't see your fin in a jump like this. It's too fast and hectic and the angle is poor too. If we really wanted to cheat, we could have done so very easily. I could just look at the fin while not filming... but then it's not really fun.

[@alteisentv]

Cheating is not gentlemenlike

[@maximilianludwig8094]

I really wanns know, what happend to the destroyed fin 😂

[@albertodellaira8071]

WHAT IS THIS SPOT???🤔

[@ScrattleGG]

2:00 Classic nico cheating. Jumping the board out to try and get a look on the fin hahah

[@nikemie1]

Chopper fin has a small vertical black strip of unidirectional carbon.

[@WindsurfingTV]

ok.. so if you said the last fin felt like a 'Z' and you said the first one feels like a 'chopper or a carpenter' how did you end up with guessing the first one was a 'Z' haha!! plus.. how the hell are you not interested in how a €400+ fin got the end totally smashed off it!!!!!! I would have been crying!!! ...interesting (and confusing) that it made no difference though... crazy!

[@c__d0ao990]

I reckon it happened at the end of his session on that fin, looked shallow when he got off the board.could be wrong

[@WindsurfingTV]

@@c__d0ao990 ah ok.. thought Lars did it!! Haha

[@defenderoftheadverb]

Those carbon fins are fragile.

[@FrancoisTCS]

You could have explain why this one or this one..... we don't know better...

[@Nico_GER7]

Pretty sure there was a lot of time, where I explained about the different feelings.

[@FrancoisTCS]

@@Nico_GER7 hi Nico, not to be mean to you, the exercise is very good and the video also. it is a question I have, being a decent weekend sailor, even though I will not invest 400€ in a fin, I threw 250x2 (Gasoil fins & Select Hydrofoils) for weed and straight, and that will be enough for me. basically, what we get from this video is carbon (nose up, foil, etc) vs free-ride (less speed, less lift, less control). I would have loved at the end, when you guess which is which between the carbons, to tell us, the second is X because it does this and that compare to the first one and the third one....the third one is Y because it feels like this and like that compare to the first and second one. I listened carefully, and I will do it again, but at first I did not catch this details in between the high end carbon fins.

[@Nico_GER7]

@@FrancoisTCS Hi Francois, no problem, I'm happy about feedback. We will probably open a second channel, which will be more long format video and not so fast paced. Hopefully more infos in there 🙂

[@TecColsmp]

Sachant que pour chaque aileron, il faut reprendre les réglages. ...alors intérêt de ce test? Difficile d'oser donner une opinion sachant que l'aileron pour des pros pwa doit avant tout marcher en plage haute, full Power ce qui n'est pas le cas pour un amateur , un niveau en dessous..pas la recherche du même profil... Surtout sur certains modèles spécialement orientsé Down wind..