I bought an EVO for my kids, it’s a pretty basic starter board. I’m 45, I’ve owned a Trip 143, but now I ride a Balance 143. The Trip was OK, but I found that the Balance gave me effortless pop, the Balance is a really good board for me. Both the Trip and the Balance have six fins, the outer four are cupped, I never use the center fins. I think I liked the cupped fins on the Trip better than the larger ones on the Balance. I’ve had harder time with power slides on the Balance, I think largely do to these larger cupped fins. I'm going to get my daughter a LF Substance for next year. The substance has molded in fins in the same place as the Balance cupped fins. I think that the molded in fins would suit me better. Where I live there’s way to demo boards, demo if you can.
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