Die Entstehung:

 

FINCLIP is the result of years of observing divers struggling to get their fins on, loaded with equipment and trying to keep their balance on a swaying boat.

Of course, those of us that are not quite so young anymore and perhaps also enjoy the delights of excellent cooking, fine wines and thirst quenching beers, often find this manoeuvre even more difficult.

I had always wondered why the evolution of fin straps hadn’t developed alonside that of ski bindings. Considerig this, I started to imagine ways of a simple design that would make putting on fins as easy as it is today to clip ski boots to skis.

Concept

We spent over a year looking for an innovative solution.

With the help of a design studio, many ideas were experimented and several prototypes were developed and tested.

We came up with a product that can be fitted to fins of all sizes and most major brands on the market without modifying the fins in any way.

Product

The way FINCLIP works is really quite simple and is very similar to how you would use a shoehorn. The difference is that while a shoehorn needs to be removed, FINCLIP remains where it is. In fact, if you had to remove even just a part of FINCLIP, you would have to bend down and use your hands, which is not what FINCLIP is all about.

FINCLIP consists of a clamp which needs to be secured to the back of an open heeled fin.

The clamp is hinged to a heelpiece which has an ergonomic profile that adapts to the heel of the diver on the inside and a grooved track with a sliding cursor and rotor at the back which regulates the elastic that connects the heelpiece to the fin. A knob at the base of the track stops the cursor from running off the track but can be released to free the elastic if necessary

When the heelpiece is lowered, the cursor slides to the base of the track and tensions the elastic which, being slightly lower than the fulcrum it is attached to, keeps the heelpiece down and allows the diver to easily slide a foot into the fin.

Once the fin is on, all you have to do is slightly raise your toes and gently push down with your heel. The cursor slides back up and the elastic blocks the heelpiece in the up position to secure the fin.

FINCLIP is also an optimum solution when removing fins in the water.

As we all know, removing fins in water is not that easy. The suction effect between foot and fin and not having anything to rest on often makes this operation quite troublesome.

When the heelpiece on FINCLIP is open it offers a handle which can easily be pushed to slide the fin off your foot.

During the testing of FINCLIP we decided to use one of the most common attachment systems. It is our intention to produce and market FINCLIP for all types of attachments. We aim to make FINCLIP suitable for 90% of all the fins currently present on the market

FINCLIP can be produced in different colours

Now we need your help to put FINCLIP into production and make it available to all those divers who want to make their lives easier.

Thank you.

Nachtrag heute: Homepage Finclip