Ashton and I went to PLNU together, but we didn’t link up until several years later. I hurt my hip surfing and he started helping me with some physical therapy. At the time he was transitioning out of working as a physical therapist to shape surfboards full time. He was showing me some of the board designs he was working on and while they looked interesting, I was skeptical. I had been riding the same performance thruster style board for my whole life and the only twin fins I had were fun, but slidey and just what you think of when you think of a twin fin. Ashton was confident that with the right board and the right fins, could hold like a thruster, but still fly like a twin, so we gave it a try. I would put the same fins in every shortboard and they would go good, but he kept talking about how much the fin mattered for twin fins.

After getting some boards from him, I had a few realizations. One was that a board with two fins can hold and allow me turn as hard as I can. Two was that putting the wrong fin in made a board almost unridable, but with the correct one that same board was alive in a way that it shouldn’t have been based on how poorly it went with the first set. Three was that most people don’t realize any of this. They would say as I did, that thrusters work good for turns and twins are good for going fast and sliding the tail accidentally.
While I was having these realizations, Ashton was telling me about this idea to start a fin company focused on building quality fins, but with an emphasis on demystifying which fins to pair with what board, specifically as it relates to twin fins.
Because I was experiencing exactly what he was saying, I was fired up on the idea and wanted to get in on it. I have a background in e-commerce, so it was a good little team-up.

After spending years dialing in the templates, I’m pretty excited to finally share our fins with people.