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Old April 17th, 2008
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Re: Carbon vs Fibreglass

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Originally Posted by jome View Post
Just a subjective observation from the world championships in 2007 (constant weight)

About 90% class fiber, an odd carbon fin here or there.
But Sara C. and Herbert N. have had a carbon Specialfins at Sharm. And now, she 's got a WW Glide (so, a fiberglass one).

Leaderfin Hyper is a quite good fin (I've got a "soft" one, since september). But I've tried a Glide in medium stiffness three weeks ago in Dahab, and I was amazed by this fin, so confortable, and the blade is really better than mine. I didn't go deeper than 20m with the Glide, because we hadn't much time (and it was a very windy day at Lighthouse), so I didn't feel the compressibilty of the rubber of the Glide.

I've seen on the Leaderfin's website, that they produce a new Hyper with a carbon blade... May be it can interst someone.

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