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Arms buoyancy problem

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Much better!

50g doesn't sound like much, but consider the buoyancy loss during your long dynamic dive.
Tom Sietas told me that it is a trade off, either being a bit buoyant at the beginning and neutral at the finish, or neutral at the beginning and negative at the end. I like to be a tat buoyant, being negative and swimming close to the floor is horrible. Though swimming slightly shallower might be a good trick to counter the loss of buoyancy.

Since you now got more neoprene and muscle, has your water displacement increased too?
 
Now it comes down to such small amounts, cause I had 100g more on neck and legs and difference was quite drastic on the other day.

By water displacement You mean buoyancy?
It has decreased since past few months. Last year when I was 88,5kg with 7,0kg neck (B70 skin), now I'm 82,5kg with same setup and 6,4kg feels right. So I've lost around 0,6kg of buoyancy. So 0,1kg of lead per 1kg of body mass.

I don't put thoose extra neoprene in arms... like Mullins said, we can't be bothered with it have to live with that.
 
Water displacement is your volume under water.
For a great glide it is good to wear a thick suit with lots of weight.
The whole setup is a compromise between glide, ease of movement, balance, warmth, streamlining.

The way you can measure that is to see how heavy you are, using a weighting that has you hovering just under the surface.
A boat floats at the surface. It's weight is the amount of water it displaces, or the volume of the boat that is under the waterline.
 
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