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Orca Kaisei

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Nikodk

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Anybody having any experience with the Orca Kaisei wetsuit?

The price of only £99,99 makes it very interesting as my first pool wetsuit.
 
"The 5mm HydroLift body panels on the front and back will help with body position in the water, while the 2mm QuadraFlex underarm panel and DeltaStretch shoulder panel help provide an excellent range of motion."

5mm is very thick for a swimming pool and you should need many kilos around your neck and waist to be perfectly neutral. Dont be fooled with the low price. Not all the suits are ok for swimming pool trainning, You need a thin suit 1mm or max 2mm for dynamic trainning. Dont waste your money because it is an orca wetsuit. Orca kaisei is very good for open water swimming but not for s/p trainning.
 
It'll be nice to hear a suggestion in a low range price...
 
Aqua sphere winter skin - 1mm thick, seal well, glide well, very comfortable. Sizing is bit strange, usually you should get a size smaller than the size chart to fit tight on you.

Cressi Glaros too, only 2mm thick.

Mares Gianluca Genoni is cheap too but is 3mm thick still acceptable for swimming pool but not too much comfortable as a 1mm or 2mm suit.
 
Thanks for yoour input abou the Orca. I get your points.

I will look for the other suggestions. Keep them coming
 
Hello , i would also like to purchase a wetsuit for swimming but cannot decide if the Orca is the best one. I plan to use it for open water races mostlly , but the information on the net is quite confusing as most people say 5mm is to thick for the temperatures i will be swimming in (16-22 deg C ).

The Aquasphere looks good to but wouldn't 1mm be to thin in colder waters ?
 
No definitely no. Aquasphere is not for cold open water swimming. I would say get a Blueseventy Sprint for open water swimming. Is cheap and very good triathlon swit. Thickness of this swit is 4m at the body, 3mm at legs and 2mm at the arms.
 
Thank you for the answer , i am looking at the suit right now , but their sizing is quite wierd , there is no chest size or other measure except the weight and height wich is not really ok since i am 1.83 and 97Kg i fit in L and XL at the same time ( problem is i am quite broad shouldered from swimming )

Guess will take an L and return it if it doesn't fit right.
 
Thanks dimitris for your help , really appreciate the help , that was the store i was aiming for and will go for XL and hope i won't loose to much mass this year.
 
16-22 degrees is not very cold for open water swimming. I would personally go for quite a thin suit at the warmer end of that range, but any standard triathlon suit will be fine for that. Below about 14 degrees you need to start looking at vests or thicker tri suits.
 
Thanks for the replies , the 4/3 suit suggested seems to be able to do all , the reason i don't want to get a thinner suit is because the races i am targeting are long distance (~6.5 Km ) , even if the water is 18 deg after 1 hour i assume i won't have much to burn for generating body heat
 
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Rush"]Done without a wetsuit[/ame].

It's a bouyancy aid. Once your muscles are working hard, they'll be dumping heat like nobody's business.
 
Yes I would imagine that after 28 hours of swimming you'd have warmed up lol
 
He once got pulled out of the Cook Strait (between the North & South Islands in NZ) with hypothermia after nearly 24 hours, attempting a triple crossing in 14 degree water. I think there may be an upper limit to warming up
 
I use a triathlon suit with 2mm arms, 5mm body, 3mm lower legs for my pool dynamic training in 26c water. As long I'm not sprinting and just going slow and relaxed it keeps me and my skinny tall body warm and relaxed. About the buoyancy, I LIKE having more in a pool, that means I can have more weight, and consequently more momentum and speed in dynamic. The only drawback is when you dip below neutral buoyancy you'll negative more quickly because there is more material compressed.
 
I don't plan to pool train in a suit as i want to know where i stand as a swimmer but competing with a simple swimsuit against 50 people in Wetsuits would give me a handicap .

Btw i was mostlly interested about the speed/fatigue and warming benefits as i was a swimmer and water polo player for 12 years , i am naturally buoyant and i float without effort ( i also do balance drills to continually improve on this ) .
 
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Hm question again , i finally recived the BlueSeventy Sprint and it seems to fit ok except:
- on my forearms it is loose ( i imagine that is not ok)
- on my neck , there is enough room arround the neck collar that i can easilly fit a few fingers , i doubt that would be good durring a swim;

Otherwise , i don't think i could fit on a smaller size though (biceps / back is extemlly tight ).

Should i return it or is the neck not an issue , i think on the forearms i can just pull it higher i guess.

P.S. : Also an airpocket formed on my chest and i cannot get rid of it
 
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If you are sure that you cannot fit in the smaller size then one solution is to try an isothermal lycra or merino and then put the suit on.

something among these http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Brands.aspx?BrandID=1083

I never done this before cause all my suits fits perfectly nice on me but I have readed somewhere. If more experienced swimmers/freedivers can advise you would be nice.
 
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