About Us

Who We Are

We are a team of competitive divers, diving coaches and composite product developers dedicated to building monofins you love!

Our Team

A tightly knit group of composite enthusiasts in service of underwater freedom!

Ananda Parrott

CEO

Bertalan Konyári

Chief Designer

Balázs Magyar

COO

Zsolt Ábrahám

Composite Engineer

Martin Hudák

Composite Technician

Nata Tsereteli

Designer

Borut Jan

Swimming Coach

Boris Milošić

Competitive Diver


How we ended up building fins

Early days

It all started 52 years ago when a legend was born… Wait, wait, this is just Ananda trolling in Berci’s area, I’ll let him type now.

Underwater depths have lured me for over 40 years. As an underwater orienteering diver I have attended numerous competitions. Due to the special requirements of our gear, and the complete lack of local financial support in socialist Hungary, we were forced to develop and build our own equipment to even try to compete with the greats. We displayed death-defying courage as we sliced fibreglass sheets day in and day out. We looked to one of our friends as a demigod when he got his hands on a half bottle of industrial Tip-Top rubber glue.

This is how we combined a Naide fin and some fibreglass to first create an elongated fin, then a dolphin fin. We made buoys by wrapping stockings around blocks of styrofoam we carved out on our desks, then used boat clear coat and putty to give them more structure. We fabricated handmade copper needles onto revolution counters salvaged from cassette players, we polished spherical compasses refining our gear from one competition to another. Back then I thought we can’t make it any better. It may have been true for the time, but I know for sure it no longer is!

Airborne

My next passion took me out of the water and straight into the air. In 1994 a new type of sport began to test its wings. It went by a few different names: some called it banana kite, some said it’s a hang glider. It was around this time when aerodynamics really started to interest me. When I became a sailplane pilot I started tweaking my own plane by putting winglets on the then 20 year old Jantar Standard.

Composite

As an industrial designer and CNC machinist gaining experience in the field of composites, every condition was given for me to do what I felt was necessary. In my opinion, the “baker’s shovel” era was over. After enduring years of hard work, disappointment, failure and numerous „it’s almost working” prototypes – we’re ready! I’m not going to lie, I didn’t enjoy every second of it, but we did it, it’s finished! 

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