Omer stingray or the new gara professional LD

[titan]

Hi guys I would like a fin with great angle and soft blade any input about these two?

 

[titan]

Hi guys I would like a fin with great angle and soft blade any input about these two fins?

 

[Gugi]

Haven't had Gara Pro, it was put on the market 2 or 3 months before Omer Stingray and looked promising especially after the long advertising campaign led by Cressi for almost 1 year. A friend of mine bought immediately and after testing it said OK, nice fins. After the Stingray was launched and I bought for me one, he tried it, then returned the Garas and took Stingrays.
At first glance and touch Gara is much heavier, the foot pocket looks shallow at the heel and something that you could ignore but it's important for me - non replaceable blades.

 

[titan]

thanks, are the omer blades soft?!?!?!?

 

[Gugi]

Medium-to-soft to the touch, but in the water the sense is rather for soft fins (imho).

 

[DivingDane]

yep soft blades in cumfy pockets, i think Gara Professional LD will also be soft but havent had the chance to use them, very good footpocket design in the cressi as far as having the blade on top of the foot should mean very good power transfur from the compoflex blade?

only down side for cressi and advantage for Stingray is that as you either find the limitation of the blades or save enough cash, you can replace the blades with Carbon fibre from any one of many manufacturers including Omers New Stingray carbon blades. where as the cressi is a 1pc fin so not possible to do.

DD

 

[cww180]

Mares Razors are also soft with good angle.

 

[zaratustra]

go for omer. It is much easer to travel with them (shorter with no blade).