I'm just about to order a new summer time wetsuit (3mm) and am thinking about a medium density suit this time.
My last, summer, suit was a low density 3mm Heiwa with opencell/smoothskin. It was simply my favorite suit of all times- and I've owned a LOT of suits in the last 25 years! Of course, it was very fragile and started to fall apart after 2 seasons so I am looking for something a bit stronger this time around.
So far it looks like a nylon lined/ smoothskin suit that is fully reversible- I have a 5mm suit like this and it works great. I wear the nylon side in for warmer water and smoothskin in when it get cold. The arms will be cut for overhead postioning so that should help with stiffenss.
My question is how much am I loosing, flexibility wise, in jumping up to the medium density compared to the low? Is it really that much warmer? Also, is it any stronger than low density- so I could go opencell/ smoothskin again but have a better suit life?
Thanks for any input,
Jon
My last, summer, suit was a low density 3mm Heiwa with opencell/smoothskin. It was simply my favorite suit of all times- and I've owned a LOT of suits in the last 25 years! Of course, it was very fragile and started to fall apart after 2 seasons so I am looking for something a bit stronger this time around.
So far it looks like a nylon lined/ smoothskin suit that is fully reversible- I have a 5mm suit like this and it works great. I wear the nylon side in for warmer water and smoothskin in when it get cold. The arms will be cut for overhead postioning so that should help with stiffenss.
My question is how much am I loosing, flexibility wise, in jumping up to the medium density compared to the low? Is it really that much warmer? Also, is it any stronger than low density- so I could go opencell/ smoothskin again but have a better suit life?
Thanks for any input,
Jon