fnfalman
Contributor
Time will tell, eh? Perhaps there is room for both. Or perhaps different strokes for different folks? Perhaps one really is horrible. I suspect that the paddles will be more in tune with my current kick style, but again, the question was not which is better - but how to use the tool at hand. Whether it is the correct tool is irrelevent and already a very dead horse of a subject.
Indeed that time will tell. Once upon a time, SPGs were thought as useless as well. As were BCs. Technology and improvements will march on, and there will always be Luddites.
And you're right. It's how you use the tool that matters. You can buy the bestest solid fins in the world but if you've never been taught or bothered to learn how to kick with solid fins, then it's a waste. There are plenty of rototillers and coral killers whose weapons of choice are the paddle fins.