My wife and I love snorkeling when we travel, and I love to do a bit of freediving when possible, but our fins often take a lot of space in our bags when it isn't specifically a diving trip. We are hoping to find something smaller and lighter.
I've been researching travel fins and just came across body surfing fins. They looks quite nice for travel fins. Small, light, buoyant, powerful, etc. but I'm wondering how well they work for snorkeling/diving.
Being short, I'd imagine they are better for small, fast kicks. Has anyone used them to try to kick down and get a small amount of depth (even only like 10m)?
I'd guess with bodysurfers being out on the water for long sessions they'd be comfortable enough for our hour or so long snorkeling sessions as well.
And a quick followup: If I got these short fins I might end up using them in my pool swim training as well; just to kill two birds with one stone. Any idea how they might perform in lap swimming environments?
NB. I'm currently looking at the Voit UDT as they are said to give more power, which I think would be useful for me being used to longer fins. My wife is looking at DaFin as she likes the design of them ^^
I've been researching travel fins and just came across body surfing fins. They looks quite nice for travel fins. Small, light, buoyant, powerful, etc. but I'm wondering how well they work for snorkeling/diving.
Being short, I'd imagine they are better for small, fast kicks. Has anyone used them to try to kick down and get a small amount of depth (even only like 10m)?
I'd guess with bodysurfers being out on the water for long sessions they'd be comfortable enough for our hour or so long snorkeling sessions as well.
And a quick followup: If I got these short fins I might end up using them in my pool swim training as well; just to kill two birds with one stone. Any idea how they might perform in lap swimming environments?
NB. I'm currently looking at the Voit UDT as they are said to give more power, which I think would be useful for me being used to longer fins. My wife is looking at DaFin as she likes the design of them ^^