Experience with new Pegaso fins?

oflow said:

I have also been considering a pair of Omer Pegaso/ Rekord fins. I am currently using the Picasso Black Team camo fins, and for me, they seem to work pretty well. Perhaps if they had a bit more thrust.... I've been meaning to pick up some carbon fins; the c4 and Omer Pegaso are the only ones I'm really interested. But friends of mine have said they make an "oil pan" sound in the water....? If you hold the fins in front of you by the foot pocket and wobble them up and down you get this " wah-o-wah-o-wah" sound. I would think in the water that a person would be making a much more fluid motion.... can anyone verify these claims, or should I definitely just pick up some c4's or Pegaso/Rekords??? Please enlighten me... I'll be doing alot of filming and stalking on the reefs and kelp beds at Santa Catalina. ( Lion's Head, Little/Big Geiger, Cortes Cape, and Ribbon Rock areas):martial -ofLow-

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The sound fins make out of the water, especially by whipping them back and forth by the heel, and the sound them make or don';t make in the water is two different things.
Fins generally oil can, because you short kick them.
If you follow thru, they will not.
As for comparing plastic, fiberglass, or carbon, the difference between any of the platstic blades and the other two is night and day.
30-50% performance improvment.
the differencet between fiber and carbon is only in the weight.
they have virtually the same response, so its the weight that make the difference.
I have used and sold hundreds of fins, and either fiber or carbon is hands down light years beyond the plastic.
don't judge the fin on the characteristics above the water, its not comparable.
I have seen guys hang fins by theyre tips, and then say they were to soft because of how they flexed.
This is very important.
Dennis Haussler

Interesting post Dennis, it would seem you have plenty of knowledge to share.

Just for the record, last week i tried the Bat 20 "soft blades" and i'm changing my Pegaso blades medium for some the soft blades (still pegaso)
I noticed a big improvement in my apnea using softer blades. Hard to believe when you try them at the first time because they feel too soft. After i learned to kick right it really felt as i was saving a lot of energy. With the softs i went down 19mts and it felt like i was doing 12mts.
I already sold my Medium blabes and purchased the soft blades, so be careful when going from plastic to fiber. Make sure you try them for a while before the purchase.

Hi Guys

im based in australia and have a pair of the Hard Peaso blades and find them Excellent, i have had them for a couple of months now along with a Pair of DiveR fiberglass fins (built by an Australian here), i was very surprised whn i first got my OMERs because the hard was much softer than i expected i have Medium DiveR's and the OMER are softer than them. they are very similar in stiffness to the Mtechnics medium carbon blades if that helps anybody.

but i have to say i really like these blades i primarily have used them for spearing in 15-20m of water occassionaly going deeper when required and these fins make the dives absalutely effortless, they have some large improvements over the previous bat fins with a bend in the blade under the foot pocket and also layered fiberglass tapered blade unlike the maching job done on the Bat fins.

So i can recommend these fins over almost all other fins i have used and particularly for spearfishing they are ideal, very robust and only make a slight snapping noise if not kicked correctly (no wobble board sound like on the surface)

DD

I have some of the new Pegaso fins with the newer camo pattern.

Medium stiffness. I was using the Millenium Ice's before.

The Pegaso fins fell lighter under foot and respond much faster, less tiring too.

I'm impressed.

I've been using the new Pegaso fins (medium stiffness) for the last year. I used to use Cressi Rondine Gara (plastic), and recently had a chance to compare them with a pair of Beauchat Mundial (plastic).

Of the three, the Pegaso is certainly the most responsive - by a large margin. My feet fit the Omer Millenium footpockets quite well though (with 3mm sock) - and I know it makes a big difference.

Before Pegaso - I've never used any fiberglass fins. They were stiffer than what I was used to, and flexed differently than plastic fins. After I slowed my finning down to the way the Pegaso flexes - they became much more fun to use.

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