Tuesday, May 5, 2009

O'fish'l Surfboard Fins Satisfied Customer

Just ONE of the many satisfied O'fish'l customers!!!!

"Hey, Mark. I just wanted to drop you a line to say that I am impressed with your fin systems. I was giving Ted Kearns, my shaper and friend, some feedback on a new board he shaped for me last week. We began talking about the Ofishl set ups I was playing with on my new board and a high performance longboard he shaped for me some time ago. He said I should shoot you an email to tell how much I like them.

I've had several different 2 + 1 set-ups for my longboards, but have only used the Ofishl sidebites. I'm going to have to try some of your center fins soon. I'm on my second shortboard with Ofishls. Ted sent me a few fins to play with, and I found the magic set-up for the fish he shaped me. I really like the flex, the light weight of the fin as well as the box, and the price is affordable. I especially like the ease of which fins can be changed out. With such a light box and fin, it seems I'm able to huck the tail out with great ease and float across sections while maintaining speed. The result is more functional maneuvers due to keeping up that speed. I've got to attribute it to the fin system and box, as I've ridden similar shapes with Futures, Red-X and FCS systems and haven't had the same experience.
I just wanted to let you know I'm sold on Ofishls and look forward to using them on all my boards from now on. You have a solid, functional product without all the fluff that other companies seem to push and waste time on. Ofishl has everything I need.

Aloha,
Peyton"

Like I said, this is only one of our many customers who thoroughly love and enjoy the ease of use, as well as performance. Maybe YOU should be next!!!!!

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Thursday, March 26, 2009

O'fish'l's Christian Wach Noseriding Freak Show





If you have never heard of, or seen Christian Wach surf, you better get on it! This kid is absolutely amazing and can make riding a piece of kelp look easy! Christian has been a life long rider for O'fish'l, so it only seemed appropriate for him to ask Mark Stavron, owner of O'fish'l, to make him some custom noserider fins for the GSI Noosa Surf Festival in Australia. Here is the story.......

In comes Christian with these crazy off the wall templates, and Mark immediately lays them on the fiberglass panel he had laid up and begins tracing. Mark cuts them out, and these two start going to town with ideas on how Christian is going to be riding them, and how he wants them to feel. Then Mark, starts going on talking about foil points and his prior knowledge of surfing and fin design. These two finally concur on a design and go for it.The end result are these two ginormous fins that only Christian would think up, and that Mark could pull off.

Christian was so stoked with these fins and could not wait to ride them, but against his will, he didn't want to take the chance of ruining them before he got to OZ. Once he made it there, he gave them a try and loved them both. He used one of them in the noseriding division of the GSI Noosa Surf Festival, which he got first, no big deal. He logged 127.31 seconds of noseriding time on two waves, this was 42.31 seconds more than the second place contestant! This was not the first time he has won this event either, he won the previous two years as well!

Christian also did well in the Longboard Division, coming in third place to O'fish'l team rider Taylor Jensen, who brought home the bacon with a first place finish! Hats off to these guys and showing what they can do given the proper equipment matched for their talent and capabilities.

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