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kage · Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 3:27 pm Post subject: Who was the first...

...person that combined fins and paipos? Maybe everybody know this but me? I know about the ancient Hawaiians frolicking in the surf, yadda yadda. But somebody must have said "HEY! lets put on da fins." Who was that?
Not that I have anything against the ancient Hawaiians.

bgreen · Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: Location: Qld. Oz

Kage,

Leigh Tingle's board in 1958 had fins. A fair bet Wally Froiseth experimented with fins. I could ask John Clark if he could ask Wally.

Bob

Nels · Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:26 pm Post subject:

Fins and boards, or fins on boards?

Although I guess all that stuff started formally in the 1930's...

kage · Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 6:00 pm Post subject:

Flippers! I am confusing things. I meant flippers, the things on your feet. I don't know why I said fins.
So the reiterated question is:
"Who was the first person to arrive at the delectable combination of flippers and paipo?

mrmike · Joined: 06 Sep 2007 Posts: Location: coronado, ca

churchill made fins in the late 30s early 40s. whom every used them with paipos I can't say Confused

I used my first fins on my paipo in the late 50s (churchills and I still have them I would never use them now they would fall apart ) Cool

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bgreen · Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: Location: Qld. Oz

Kage,

Here is what John Clark advised me:

" According to the history of fins that I've found, a Frenchman patented them in 1933, and by the mid-1930s, the mask, snorkel, and fin combination was in common use. I've enclosed a print from a movie that was taken at Waikiki in the 1930s of some boys bodysurfing. You can see that one of them has a fin on, so fins were in Hawaii in the 1930s, but as to who first used them with a paipo board, that's something we'll probably never know. There were a lot of kids riding paipos in Waikiki the 1930s. Owen Churchill patented his fins in 1940, and that's what Wally Froiseth used after WWII when he got into paipos".

Bob

rodndtube · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 5:49 am Post subject:

I will throw this into the mix: Benjamin Franklin is credited by many with inventing swim fins (and paddling glvoes). Not sure if he also rode a paipo!

http://www.rodndtube.com/paipo/flippers/BenFranklinFlippers.shtml
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