Manny Caro of Mandala Custom Shapes on the Twinzer and his relationship with Wil Jobson 

Always loved twins back in the day but moved on after awhile. Rediscovered them about 5 years ago and love them again. I recently added a couple FCS plugs to a 3 year old twin that I liked and as a twinzer it’s even faster and better backside. Can’t believe it took me so frikkin long to do this.

Great shaper had a few of his boards they went well but tried to improve by asking him hey on the next one can you bring it in/or add just under 1/2" here an 1/8" here and a 1/4" there and well lol a thousand bucks for the board(s) and had to sell them. I can't imagine the price of a board now, and then not getting what you want -- my requests for improvements was so subtle it was ridiculous but I was shot down, I mean it's not like I asked to change the rocker or something. I guess because the models are done on the machine, live and learn, just giving the heads up... $

Great stuff! Even in The Netherlands we have Twinzer setup boards. They surf amazing

i was surfing at newland street when willy paddled up to me to tell me about his first twinzer pretty cool it went this far.willy was my shaper in the 70s then lost touch until that day.i always wonder what happened to him.thanks for the video

Twinzers got a lot of attention among the design geeks about 10 years ago. They really are the solution for surfing a twin on your backside. The trick is sizing the main fin appropriately for the tail width and the weight of the surfer. Speaking of, Bing did an alt design called the Synchronizer that was set up to use ~6 different fin setups from thruster to quad to 2+1 and twinzer. One of the combos was a small keel + twinzer leader. The board design never caught on but the keel+leader turned out to be the best combo for fishes and other fat assed boards. Drivey enough to control the additional surface area of a 19" tail without being twitchy on the back side. An earlier example is/was the Michael Eaton Zinger; he (and AC Elliott) did a Bonzer bottom with a pair of the front runners from a Bonzer-4 set + a pair of high-aspect fins (like 7") mounted in the short Bahne boxes. The front runners are a lot larger than a twinzer leader, which when combined with the deep channels made the midlength designs great for the long carve and top end speed but too sticky for the pivoting surfing style of the shortboards. The design point is that the leader breaks up the flow and puts more water over the leading edge of the main fin. The channel between the fins (allegedly) creates a higher pressure zone over the main fin. One aspect of Caro's use of the twinzer that I appreciate is he is using FCS plugs for the leader and the Fusion box for the mains. That's a much stronger combo than using the triangular Future plug for the leader. Future really screwed that design up, those plug installs commonly failed.

I rode an Ernie Tanaka 9’6” twinzer like 30 years ago 👍.

Had an old Nev 7’4 daily progressive for its time, fin system for five. Played around and made some rough canards and the board easily worked best for me with that setup.

got a twinzer 6 months ago - Panda Shiitake - best board ive ever had. The drive off the bottom is so good. Will never touch a thruster ever again.

heard Will is out in Az. in a trailer... remember him from swami's and when he hung out up on "the hill" ...

Twinzer! Pin looks sick.

Had one … the speed factor was unbelievable, almost incomprehensible but it didn’t turn right?

"Canard" and "lead" (fin) are being used as interchangeable terms here? The "lead" fin is not the "main" fin, if I'm understanding correctly....

Can I use these fins in a board with quad fin boxes or do the boxes need to be repositioned?

MANNY SAN

golden ratio :)

purty

Twinzers were 30 years ago

How many times did this guy say the word;”Like”? It’s a Bad Habit……um,like ect…….