[demasoni]

Hi Marwan,

I'm relatively new to open-cell suits myself and I can tell you what works for me. I turn the suit inside out first and using a squirt bottle I filled with warm water and conditioner, I liberally spray every part of the open cell using a wide spray pattern. I then flip it right side in and and put the suit on.

I use waist high pants instead of a long john for comfort and breathing ease, but for lj's I guess you'd need to liberally spray the outside part of the lj overlapping the top.

I dive on beaches with rocks and pebbles often and I use these 3.5 mm Sporasub neoprene socks with some kind of coating on the bottom - I think its called "Mettalite" - it looks likes a print of a bunch of hexagons that seem to give more support and strength to similar socks I have without such a print.