Easy to say, but after 3 months of research and looking for a fin maker, then a couple of weeks of negotiations in broken english then taking pot luck and sending hundreds of euro to someone in Russia or Ukraine that you don't know, then having the perfect mono turn up a month later and then snapping it in a pool 3 months after that, the next mono you get you will treat with kid gloves. My Kershkov mono broke 2 days before my 52m constant weight dive at the 2006 WC in Egypt, couldn't have picked a worse place and time if you tried (except 52m down of course!).
I'm all for training to comp conditions, but saying that I also like to use the same mono all the time. I have a couple but if i'm going to use one in comp that's the one I want to train with too. And even when i'm careful with my mono it still gets the crap beat out of it.
Anyway this has nothing to do with turns.... nice pdf MIG, turns are probably the achilles heel of most monofin freedivers so it's great to have a little guidance out there.
Cheers,
Ben
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