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Growing up in Seattle in the 90s, Ryan and his family would frequent Hawaii for vacation where he started navigating his journey in the ocean and then first hopped on a surfboard at 14. By 19, Ryan began shaping his own boards out of curiosity to the craft and because he just couldn’t afford to purchase a new one. After positive feedback from those riding his boards and a distaste for the corporate livelihood after taking business and marketing classes in college, Ryan took a chance and leapt at the opportunity to make surfboards for a living. Skip forward to present day... Ryan is one of the most renowned and accomplished current production hand-shapers in the world. His boards have been featured in countless respected surf publications, he has a huge community of supporters all over the world and has participated in and won the Icons of Foam Tribute to the Masters Shape Off. 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Slightly stiffer than your average flex fin, Ryan Lovelace designed this as his ultimate mid-length companion. It's named after his favorite board, but not at all limited to the design. What you'll find in this fin is positivity — great drive down the line and taut release out of your bottom turns when surfed with a heavy foot.
Our Volan fins are fine tuned with a precision foil as well as proper flex. They are handmade in our factory and go through the strictest quality control. Fins made with Volan fiberglass and properly aligned for optimal weave orientation have very high performance flex characteristics — with the flex coming more from the body of the fin rather than just at the tip.
