3 Easy solutions to improve your boards drive and down the line speed:

Problem: Lack of drive and down the line speed when surfing along an open face. Typical symptoms are when you’re unable to make it comfortably around close-out sections or where you lack sufficient speed in your approach to a top or bottom turn.

There are 3 simple solutions that can improve directional speed with immediate effect:

1. Push the centre fin towards the tail of the board (“aft”) and the side fins towards the nose of the board (“fore”) and/or

2. Decrease the outer splay of both side fins and/or

3. Increase the toe-out of the side fins

Note that in some cases you may want to make compensating adjustments to ensure your boards responsiveness is maintained. For example increasing toe-out improves the boards drive/speed but may affect responsiveness. So when increasing toe-out you may want to maintain responsiveness by using the other options available (push centre fin fore and side fins back/aft or increasing splay).