Hi peeps! I'm Lena, totally new to freediving-about as green as they come. Took my mom to Egypt to beach vacation last November and the Red Sea stole my heart. Taking a Level I freediving course here in US in July...so it's safe to say I know very little about most things freediving
slowly, but surely getting my gear together, have the Aqua Sphere mask, got the Beuchat bag from Spain, ordered carbon Captain Nemo fins from the Ukraine, and about to order my Elios suit. Going with stock and not custom this time and have a couple of questions before i place the order...
1) going with a 5mm, open cell suit (based on Mark Lozano's recommendation, he'll be the instructor). This is the suit I'm looking at-dark blue color (I was going to go with black, not in love with camo patterns), but blue seems a bit more fun and less boring. I LOVED the idea of red interior, until they told me the interior has to be black-gah! ok fine. They suggested red seams, and my first reaction is no to red seams. Would you say it's a personal preference, or would you say it would attract more attention and maybe a no for that reason? See the pics below for details
2) A more delicate question.....how stretchy and forgiving are Elios suits? I'm ordering a 3 Long in women's - I'm 5'9" (175 cm) and the top weight for that size is 170 lbs (77kg). I weigh more than that now, but hope to be close to 175 or so by July. The question is, if I'm a few lbs over the 170 lb limit on the size chart, will it stretch or will i look like a dumbo? they do have a size 3 longx2, which goes to a higher weight, BUT the heigh on that one is 183-189, so it will be WAY too long everywhere. I don't have the option of going custom now, because of the time and i wouldn't know what measurements to put down since I'm actively losing weight now. thoughts?
thanks much! I'm beyond excited adventure!
slowly, but surely getting my gear together, have the Aqua Sphere mask, got the Beuchat bag from Spain, ordered carbon Captain Nemo fins from the Ukraine, and about to order my Elios suit. Going with stock and not custom this time and have a couple of questions before i place the order...
1) going with a 5mm, open cell suit (based on Mark Lozano's recommendation, he'll be the instructor). This is the suit I'm looking at-dark blue color (I was going to go with black, not in love with camo patterns), but blue seems a bit more fun and less boring. I LOVED the idea of red interior, until they told me the interior has to be black-gah! ok fine. They suggested red seams, and my first reaction is no to red seams. Would you say it's a personal preference, or would you say it would attract more attention and maybe a no for that reason? See the pics below for details
2) A more delicate question.....how stretchy and forgiving are Elios suits? I'm ordering a 3 Long in women's - I'm 5'9" (175 cm) and the top weight for that size is 170 lbs (77kg). I weigh more than that now, but hope to be close to 175 or so by July. The question is, if I'm a few lbs over the 170 lb limit on the size chart, will it stretch or will i look like a dumbo? they do have a size 3 longx2, which goes to a higher weight, BUT the heigh on that one is 183-189, so it will be WAY too long everywhere. I don't have the option of going custom now, because of the time and i wouldn't know what measurements to put down since I'm actively losing weight now. thoughts?
thanks much! I'm beyond excited adventure!