Alternative to ala fins

Personally, I always thought the Alas were a bit crap. *ducks and runs for cover*
I never had a pair that lasted more than 3 months before they broke/ripped somewhere, and the foot pocket was ridiculously shaped and nowhere near stiff enough. Unfortunately, everything else that's been made in the last 20 years is even worse...

Somebody make me a carbon fiber rubber edged fin, short, wide and stiff with an aerofoil blade, elliptical tips and stiff lace-up moulded foot pockets. I offer my first-born son as payment.

Bently

Has anyone tried a pair of these?

http://onlinescuba.com/eshop/10Expan...uctCode=4567A5

you already sold me your firstborn son for a muesli bar at a camp in 2002.

i am going to call him lanlan and train him to make sticks.

Went to the link for the fins bentfishboy, they look good and Cheep, Im guessing that is US price???
Mabe the Americans have seen or tried them?
As for your dream fins, keep dreaming, what are your thaughts on a dream mask? How about a mask cam?
Belle :roll:

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I think Benson has also sold me his first born son at some point too. Might have been for a Kentucky Fried Chicken leg. Or was that a bottle of Waikato Draught at 96 tourney?

i think we see a trend forming here nat. ...i reckon that if all the sons are unaware of each other and born in different countries or even, knowing benny, on different planets, they could all count as firstborns?

sorry getting off topic here. fins... we actually knocked into a guy in nelson who is making fibreglass fins and we had a bit of a talk with him, he's keen on doing some uwh versions, he's been exclusively doing dive fins up till now. so hopefully in a while we might have some leader-like fins to trial down here, and he was keen o take feedback too, maybe we'll be able to get some useful design input into them.

Just make sure he makes them with a comfortable foot pocket!

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Regreasing the fins is a good idea Sophia.

Sadly as Liam and Belle will be able to tell you I'm far too lazy to ever do gear maintenance.

Then again if a miracle occurs and I find a mint pair of Alas I probably would. Thanks for the tip.

Liam. Perhaps the firstborns are different species? Knowing benny... you'll never think the same again after meeting him.

A stingray didn't kill Steve Irwin. One of Benny's science projects/sons did.

Re ala-maintenance, I think it may depend on the material that was used (the material changed over the years). My newest pair, about 5 years old are "fraying" badly on the inside edges and I have to regularly trim them. My old black alas (the hand-me-downs from Elwood from ca 1990) have not frayed at all and are still better than the newer ones!

Yeah, I've found the same thing. The older black and blue fins (15-20 years ago when they were $60 a pair) had more rubber than silicone in them and seemed to be a lot harder wearing. The then changed the compound and went to a grey fin which didn't last long compared to the older ones so they bought black ones back in. Unfortunately they just changed the colour and not the compound that they made them out of and these didn't last long either. They then came out with the grey "silicone/rubber" compound which is what a lot of people still have now.

Another tip for making them last is not to leave them in your car. Alas and heat and not real good friends!

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