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Omer Milennium

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Søren

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Why do I need long fins for hunting/freediving.
I'm just about ot buy the Omer Milennium fins. I already have Cressi Rondine Frog fins. How much better are the Omer fins?
Please help and drop me a line at once! I really need advice.

Søren
 
When hunting you will find that your hands are needed for a variety of differerent things which means you can't count on them for swimming! Long fins give you the extra 'push' you need. Also useful for swimming against currents/tides and essential for any deep diving. If you only plan to hunt in shallow water hugging the coast with little tidal or wave action then short fins are OK.
 
Thank you for your quick reply. Short and to the point.
Just one question:
why are the long fins essential for deep dives? If it is because of this "push", does this same extra effort not only use up your oxygen faster also?
Søren
 
Hm, I personally don't think long fins are neccessary. For example = at Pacific Cup of Freediving in 2002 Martin Stepanek got to 76 meters in 3 minutes with short fins called Nayada ("Najada" / Czech legendary old time fins) :D

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And my own experience - my dynamic PB is different only by 1 meter when done with long (Gara 2000HF) and short fins (Technisub Stratos) / these are quite stiff.

But - maybe just my kicking technique is wrong, I don't know.

Petr

But still - I love my Garas and didn't use the Stratos from the day I bought Gs ;)
 
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Longfins are not essential, just very nice for most freediving. I shot a whole lot of fish down to 50 ft or so before longfins ever arrived in my area, but I would not want to try a 30 m dive with shortfins. Its both push and efficiency. Longfins are a little faster and much much more efficient. Once I tried'em, it only took a few minutes to see the advantage. For staying in the water a long time, covering a lot of distance, going deep, fighting current, etc, longfins are far superior in almost all situations. Possible exceptions are very shallow water (less than 20 ft), very rough or very confined conditions.

Connor
 
Hey Soren,

Omer Millenium fins were my second 'serious' set of freediving fins and they work really well. In my opinion, long fins really do offer more than short fins. I reckon they also give you more confidence when you're on the bottom and have a long way to go up: knowing you've got some oversized rockets on your feet always gives you that extra bit of confidence!
 
Personally I find at least the black "millennium competition" fins way too stiff. They're the only one's I have, being a cheap bastard, but there's not one session with them when I don't wish I had bought more flexible one's.

After a few hours in the water, my ankles are in so much pain I cannot do a traditional kick at all anymore, but have to resort to this kind of half assed frog kick...
 
I've got a pair of Omer Milennium fins and wouldn't go back to my short fins for spearfishing.

The main advantage of the extra length seems to be that your whole finning style becomes more relaxed and you go at the same speed as with short fins but kick much slower. For me this means i can travel much further and know if i do need a burst of speed all i have to do is fin a bit faster and harder!

My only slight problem with them is that the foot pockets seem a bit wider than Cressi ones so i need to wear socks, which i never bothered with before, and these make my feet a little bit too bouyant (when i went out without socks on it felt much better until i developed king sized blisters!)

I'm sure you'll be happy with any longblade fins that you buy but getting Milenniums means that if the blades are too stiff/soft you can easily pick up replacements until you find some you're happy with.

Good luck!
 
Theres a big difference between using long fins for pure freediving and spearfishing. You don't have a speargun in one hand maybe a torch in the other or holding the line to your bouy. Try fighting a tide whilst towing your bouy or carrying a load of fish around your waist with short fins, good luck. :) The only time I have used shorter fins is when I was fishing right in the shallows with no tide/current and not dragging my bouy about, otherwise when spearing I always use long fins.
 
That's it; I'm going to buy them this afternoon...
Thank you for the advice
Søren
 
Re: Omer Milennium ICE

Hello

Has anyone used the Omer Millenniun Ice Fins, they look great, I was wonder how they function for freediving. I am using Cressi Gara 3000 aty present and find them great
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Lots on [ame="http://forums.deeperblue.net/showthread.php?t=65688"]this[/ame] thread about Omer Millennium Ice Fins. I got some recently and they are very good.
 
jome said:
Personally I find at least the black "millennium competition" fins way too stiff. They're the only one's I have, being a cheap bastard, but there's not one session with them when I don't wish I had bought more flexible one's. After a few hours in the water, my ankles are in so much pain I cannot do a traditional kick at all anymore, but have to resort to this kind of half assed frog kick...

I have the opposite feeling with my grey "Millennium Winter" which I use for shallow water and long distance swimming: very soft blades, even too much.

Too soft can be a pain, because the single kick takes little effort, but it takes MANY kicks to go ahead with such a soft blade. Maybe I should just work out my finswimming technique, or maybe it's just the fact that I swim VERY long distance. Don't know.

After all, I' feel really okay with the Millennium footpocket, but I'm not sure I would recommend the grey "Winter" blades to friends: a bit stiffer would be better. I think I'll try the Ice.
 
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I'm in search for a softer fin myself. I think I'll go with the Cressi Gara 3000LDs becouse of the comfortable footpockets. But I'd love to own a pair of the Ice blades as well... maybe I'll get them both.
 
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