Hi Ray,
Thank you for coming back to support on this territory.
Please allow me to address your points one-by-one:
- If the fly-fin is best for everything – Good point. I even
use fly-fin to shovel sand on the beach while watching my kids. Sand works as
polishing compound and fin actually gets better. You cannot do the same with most
of other fins because the other fins are compression moulded and painted with
thin coat of clear epoxy.
- … it is the first fin in history to be. – For this kind it is "Yes", unless proven
otherwise. This is the fist foil one that works and sold in such quantity.
- Every other fin has to be designed for 1 or 2 advantages:
maybe top speed, maybe easy control, etc. – Very much the same applies to
Fly-Fins. This why we promote fly-fing for early planing and we promote different design for faster speed at 20 knots wind. We have just discussed these high speed fly-fins above. Many participants noticed that they could balance much better at 30 knots speed compare to the con from frpgear. Agree.
- Ease of learning will never sell to any windsurfer already
sailing. – Perhaps. This is why we promote early planning. And, we have just started to
promote higher speed when used in combination with Fly-Boards. It means frpgear is now targeting the board industry with faster boards/fin technology. We have a new board curing as we speak to be ready for test tomorrow.
- Give a couple to learn windsurf schools and get
professional feedback from them. – When we cannot sale fins for money and we have
nothing else to do we may be giving out free fins.
- Maybe the son is just a phenomenal quick learner. – Thank you!
His father will appreciate this compliment. You actually the first one who
thought about this. All the other comments are very negative towards to the son’s
windsurfing skill.
- Do not use a poor not windsurfer go to sell your idea to a
good windsurfer. Use a recognized good windsurfer. – I have been thinking about
the same and even gave free sample to one very well recognized. It has been 5
months and the person still not used it. I think you are implying that I need
to give a free sample to windsurfers like you to help me in development. I do.
The only problem is too much time to wait for the results with extra work for
shipping. It takes at least a week to test one design if I give it to you. When
I do it with my team we test several designs in one day. We take 5 different
fins on a spot and I do modifications right on the spot. This way we could have
25 designs tested in one day.
- As you are finding, it is very tough to show a real
advantage with an honest video. And it is quite possible that there is not a
lot of trust in a video. – At some point I agree. But in our experience we have
very few people who do not believe in our videos. Only one out of 10 is
skeptical about accuracy. 9 out of 10 make negative comments on poor
windsurfing skill of our test person. It is like Ford truck advertising. When
they show a hard working hansom man driving F150 consumers do not complain on
misleading. If they will show a real average F150 driver consumers will
probably dislike F150. Look at one French promotional videos of hydrofoil. They
always show a half-naked woman with the foil or behind the foil or around. If
they show a real average half naked woman nobody would like that French foil.
When the sons start dating we may get some bikinis on our videos too.
- All these people at the Canadian Hole who have seen the
fly-fins for themselves ...... Have they immediately bought a fly-fin and taken
it back to Canada and write about it on the forums and tell their friends? Are
they not that amazed? – These Canadians may be not like you. Why would they
drive 3000km to our spot? I think most of them know about us but they are afraid to approach Russians because we use Russian flag sail and USSR symbols painted on our test boards. However, one brave Canadian even asked Dr. Lunin for a picture with
him in order to post on his forum. Another Canadian secretly touched our
Fly-Board and took many pictures. I told him that it was a secret board – no pictures.
And I flipped the board on the other side. But that Canadian came back to take
pictures of the secret board from the other side. But, no. We did not have a
valid test with others on the spot yet. Another Canadian with two daughters was talking to us because we had two same age hansom boys. Most of people on the spot are just busy with their own problems. But one American tested and liked it but lost the fin because we had a different finbox. I Russian culture it is impolite to ask somebody for a fin to try. Probably need to get used to each
other. Canadians have been coming there for decades and we started to go there
last October. Many kiters are asking. This is why we sale fly-fins for now for kiteboards.
- I have had great results with a fly-fin. BUT, I had to
attach it to a proper fin to fix many, many problems. What it does for me is 3
things. Very low wind early planing, and / or 2 m. smaller sail, and excellent
fin for gusty conditions. (probably because of that 2m less sail; I can start
planing early and still handle the huge gusts.) At strong winds I suspect a
normal race fin will be faster. And 1 fairly large negative - I have a new way
to jibe. It does not do everything better! – You are probably the only one who
has successful results with home-made fly-fin. May be frpgear wing/fin
integration helped? But your declared results are even harder to believe
compare to our results, while we have many videos and you no videos. From another
hand, even if you had a video to does not make it easy to believe unless you
make a video that looks like a TV commercial. We cannot confirm if it is easy
to jibe or not because the son has never used a regular fin to compare. Now,
after 10 months of practice, the son can do 1 successful planning jubes out of
10 attempts. It is safe to assume, if continue practicing, the son will be
doing planning jubes this season so we
will post a video. So we can say that it takes one year for a beginner to learn
planning jibes with fly-fin.
Thank you for participating,
Zak