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Originally Posted by island_sands
at least after diaroheahoroea you won't be so boy-ant!
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I'm sure there's an AIDA rule somewhere about jet propulsion...
I'm having some buoyancy issues at the moment (not because of the above mentioned reasons either!) as i've just started using a wetsuit with my dynamics. I went from wearing about 2.5kgs (3lb neck, 3lb waist) with no suit to 3kg's with suit (all on neck). 3kg's is perfect with the monofin, but my head is scraping the bottom of the pool while my legs are in the air for no-fins. Buoyancy-wise it's is a little too light too.
Enter weightbelt #2, 3kgs around my waist, instead of my neck. For no-fins, this one has virtually no impact on my bouyancy and I pop up like a cork. Hmm, I says - buggar it, put them both on. This time i'm almost scraping the bottom the whole time, but I get about 10-12m from the kick off the wall. The bedroom is starting to look like some bizarre drug courier factory with bits of rubber tube, cable tie and bits of material all over the place. I'm about to make a 3rd neckweight which will be 2kg so theoretically that should be about right. How I am supposed to travel around with all this I haven't really thought of yet.
Yet all of this does not help my legs which still pop up like a cork. I hate ankle weights as they feel horrible, and I don't really want to rip the legs off my new wetsuit just yet. I've heard of people sewing lead into their wetsuit but not in the leg area.
Does this make me a better freediver? Nope, but at least I know I can't blame my equipment.
Cheers,
Ben
