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Please help me choose my first wetsuit

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I've been fly, lure and carp fishing for years, but in the summer a work colleague took me to Bournemouth and introduced me to spearfishing. This was an amazing experience and I loved it. He is not very experienced himself and has just started spearfishing.
I’m so glad to have found this forum. I wonder if someone can help me to choose the right equipment: Wetsuit, fins, gun and the rest. I've prepared 300 pounds for everything. Hopefully this amount would be enough to by decent gear, as from past experience I know if you buy cheap you buy twice. Can you pls recommend a wetsuit –thickens, make? I intend to start spearfishing around Bournemought, Brighton or anywhere that’s within 3 hours drive from London.
 
My tupenceworth:

Commanche 75 - good starter gun and solid, still got mine and still use it
Leader fins best value carbons on the market (Imo)
Elios camo custom
Budget busting know but any decent rubber belt to save messing about with cheap material belt.
Money spent....
 
for wetsuits i suggest Marea Sub Mundial Mimetic
see Abbas_1 - _2 - _3
Photos - Foto marea people

it will cost 190 euro for the 3mm

you can start with cressy fins gara 2000 it will be good .

if u need anything let me know
 

I think I'll try Elios Shadow Camo 5mm, do you think that's good choice for a beginner in UK?
SPEARO UK LTD - ONE STOP ON-LINE SPEARFISHING RESOURCE
 
Looks like a great suit, although the diveskin is only £120.
 
A 5mm for me in greece is enought with a west under it.A 7mm much better!
Omer has a begginer set very good.Carbon fins for a beginner just spending money.
Apnea xaos fin 90eur with changable blades,7mm suit about 150eur doesn't metter the name gun about 90cm about 150eur socks,gloves,knife,balloon 100eur.....
buy used from the net,local spearo magazines

Good luck!!
 
Why would you consider an off the peg suit for £150 when you can gt a MTM one with a fantastic reputation for less money?
Elios will take about 6-8 weeks to arrive but diveskin offers a very quick service, however it is winter so its a great time to order anyway.
 

Thanks Foxfish, as I’m standard size I thought I might as well get an of the peg suit, however I suppose you right that MTM would be the best. Which one would u recommend from the ellios site?
 
I would recommend a diveskin because I have owned both elios & diveskin & I feel the diveskin is much better value & even more so, "a much better service"!
However if you prefer the sound of an elios, then they are great suits too & you will have more choice of design!
Virtually all spearos use nylon lined outer & smooth skin interior however if you are not going to dive in Jan or Feb then consider a nylon lined interior as well.
If you choose that option the suit will last almost double the time but, you do loose some flexibility however in turn they are very easy to put on & take off....
There are a lot of followers of a smooth skin interior elios in 5mm & rightly so however a lot of these folk have not tried a MTM nylon lined suit so be open minded.
At the end of the day it is a personal choose as most modern suits are fantastic whether camo, plain, lined unlined
 
Looking at the ellios site the materials from which the costumes are made a described for example as:
smoothskin/nylon or nylon/cell ... etc.
Which one is the interior which's the exterior?
What's would be the difference between smoothskin and cell interior?
BTW thanks for helping make the right choice.
 
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