The suits are everything I expected and more. I tested the 8mm heiwa smoothskin first. Man I think its a bit too thick
I was sweating inside the suit. Had to let cold water in a few times
which is exactly what I wanted. Now the terribly cold North winds won't affect my diving any more.
Needed about 10 kilos lead which sounds a lot but it was suprisingly ok. The hood and neck felt a bit claustrophobic at the start but as the dive went on it felt more and more comfortable.
Yesterday I used the 7mm lined Yam suit. THat was real warm as well. As it was Yamamoto and not Heiwa it was a bit softer.
I was in the water for 5 hours and felt great. No need to piss in suit any more. All I do is get up on rock, pull jacket up and there you go
The short pants make a big difference to breathing. Chest feels really free.
I will be cutting my Ocean Mimetic for sure!
Only thing with pants is that when you go deep a very small bit of water manages to seep in to chest area, but as I was so warm that this was welcome. It might be an idea to reverse a strip at the top of the pants to have opencell on outside so it gives a better seal with inside of jacket.
Did not catch much though but was happy not to be cold.
I got a few samples or Neoprene from Elios and want to say that their new Black Widow neoprene looks real good. I also got some of the gold and copper lined and that looks real smooth and easy to wear. The elasticity is not really affected. Tried my fingernail test on the 3mm heiwa and it passed. hurt my finger before the rubber gave way. I tried that on a 5mm Omer New professional neoprene and the rubber split a lot easier.
