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The AM1 Techflex, designed by legendary shaper Al Merrick of Channel Island Surfboards, is a medium sized thruster in the Rake template category. This template features a wide base and refined tip, for the perfect combination of release and drive. The Techflex construction with the flat foil give this fin a stable feel giving it the speed control desired in powerful waves. This setup has a smaller center fin than the side fins for increased maneuverability.
Futures Fins blends aerospace-level engineering with surf-driven design, crafting high-performance fins in Huntington Beach that are rapidly prototyped, tested, and refined to push progression for surfers at every level.
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I've been using these fins for the past 5 years in all my good waves boards in a thruster set up with future boxes - my FRK and my Christenson Carrera that I rode at Cloudbreak.
The FRK has been ridden in good to epic Outer Banks waves and the Carrera was in big and wild cloudbreak - 6-8ft, windy and challenging...
The description is super accurate - "the perfect combination of release and drive." "stable feel giving it the speed control desired in powerful waves." "has a smaller center fin than the side fins for increased maneuverability."
This is the perfect Thruster fin set up for good waves.
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