Orca2 is the best. I'm pretty sure the Pilot is better than the SR1, but by exactly how much is still a question that needs more testing to get an answer. In some of my testing the difference appeared to be about 10% for comparing flutter-kick count cycles to to the Pilot with continuous dolphin kicking. I think the SR1 is more efficient with dolphin kicking.
I know that I was very closely matching Walter Johnson last summer when he was using the Pilot and we were both doing KKG technique alongside each other. We had the same number of KKG kick cycles and close enough in time we couldn't definitively declare a statistical winner. Encouraging, but it says little about the actual efficiency; it was an older prototype of the SR1, and it was on a different swimmer with maybe differences in technique, etc....
The design has changed a lot since then. Certainly it is better for manufacturing and robustness, but I really have not had the chance to do the all the detailed testing I'd like to do to fully and accurately verify the freediving performance.
BTW: I just heard that Jessea Lu, from China, set a Dynamic National Record at the Pan Pacific Championship with her DOL-Fin Pilot monofin. Records indicate she did 157m on day 3, and I'm assuming that was the N.R. dive.
I know that I was very closely matching Walter Johnson last summer when he was using the Pilot and we were both doing KKG technique alongside each other. We had the same number of KKG kick cycles and close enough in time we couldn't definitively declare a statistical winner. Encouraging, but it says little about the actual efficiency; it was an older prototype of the SR1, and it was on a different swimmer with maybe differences in technique, etc....
The design has changed a lot since then. Certainly it is better for manufacturing and robustness, but I really have not had the chance to do the all the detailed testing I'd like to do to fully and accurately verify the freediving performance.
BTW: I just heard that Jessea Lu, from China, set a Dynamic National Record at the Pan Pacific Championship with her DOL-Fin Pilot monofin. Records indicate she did 157m on day 3, and I'm assuming that was the N.R. dive.
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