Daniel from Shapers says: “This set originally came from a thruster set. A lot of the quad sets we were seeing were pretty thick in the tip and big-based, and the back sets were a different template again and they seemed to fight each other. Short thicker-tipped fins might go up and down but they’re not going to surf a nice down-the-line wave with clean drawn out turns nearly as well. So we went this way, with some rake, still with drive but with a thinner tip … really a normal high performance fun outline. The back set is basically
a small version of the front. We do a Jack Knight quad set and Jack used to drum into us that four fins need to add up to three – that you need
to keep fin volume down and let the
front set dominate.”

TEAM ASSESSMENT

We used this set in two different boards and it handled really well in both. One was a near conventional high performance model with a lot of speed in the rocker line, and the fins had no trouble harnessing that speed in carves and turns that often felt quite “thruster-like” but without any loss of momentum. The other was a playful semi-trick-oriented board where the fins needed to control a lot of tail area and re-connect quickly, and the Quad-X did this just fine. It’s a sensitive fin set
which doesn’t clutter up the back end of a board and seems really flexible from stick to stick. Shapers’ quality caught us on the hop, nice job.