True Ames YU 70's Model Fiberglass Fin quilla
Yoshinori Ueda, also known as Y.U, played a pivotal role in the era and heyday of the Lightning Bolt brand through shaping and making these boards available to the public in Japan.
La quilla
Yoshinori Ueda, también conocido como Y.U, tuvo un papel fundamental en la era y el apogeo de la marca Lightning Bolt: shapeaba estas tablas y las puso al alcance del público en Japón. El modelo 70's de Y.U rinde tributo a los diseños, la estética y el tipo de surf que se alcanzó en una era tan icónica del deporte. Esta quilla tiene una base ancha, una plantilla algo vertical y una punta más estrecha, que combina bien con pintails, rounded pins o cualquier tipo de tabla single fin más estrecha que pida algo de chicha. Te dará agarre donde lo necesitas, giros orientados al pivote y, si cierras los ojos en mitad de un bottom turn, puede que te transporte a la era dorada.
Especificaciones
Lo que dice la gente
It is a tribute to the surfing that came out of the early-to-mid 70's: a wide base for hold and grip down low, feeding an upright template that keeps the turning radius tight rather than drawn out.
True Ames points it specifically at pintails and rounded pins — the boards that want a fin with some authority but not a lot of trailing area dragging the tail around.
Put it on a narrow-tailed single fin — a pintail or rounded pin in the seven-foot range — and surf it off the tail: it holds your line through steep sections and pivots off the back foot instead of waiting out a long arc. It is not for fuller logs; if you want planted-tail trim on a wider noserider, the Yater Pivot or Velzy Classic are calmer choices.
The YU 70's Model is a single fin by Yoshinori Ueda, made by True Ames, built around the narrow-template surfing of the early-to-mid 1970s shortboard transition era. The outline runs a wide base into a somewhat upright template that pulls into a narrow tip. It comes in two sizes, 7.25" and 7.75", and is intended for pintails, rounded pins, and other pulled-in single-fin boards.
Mentioned in the review — Yater Pivot · Velzy Classic · YU Freedom — not something we carry.