Positioning of weights on the belt?

[docgreenfingers]

My buddy tells me that when Im diving down my back and legs arch backwards and I go down on an angle. I presume this is because my weights on my belt are from my sides to the back.
What is the correct positioning of weights on a belt?

 

[Anders]

I like mine to be as much out on the hips as possible. I usually use 4*2kg weights and have two on each side of the hips. This keeps the weight off my lower back and away from the most "bendy" area on my abdomen as I duck dive. Since there's just as much weight on both sides of the hips it doesn't make me lean or drift to one side.

 

[docgreenfingers]

I like mine to be as much out on the hips as possible. I usually use 4*2kg weights and have two on each side of the hips. This keeps the weight off my lower back and away from the most "bendy" area on my abdomen as I duck dive. Since there's just as much weight on both sides of the hips it doesn't make me lean or drift to one side.

Thanks! When I dive tomorrow I'll re adjust them to just the side of my hips and see if that works.

 

[azapa]

Try to get some weight of your hips and into a backpack, or better still a neck weight. a 1.5Kg neck weight is tiny but still helps a lot.

If you insist on putting it all on your weight belt then it should be as evenly distributed as possible.

Learning a good duck dive will keep the rest of your dive straighter too: most crooked dives start with a bad duckdive.

 

[rakel]

a month of good weight distributed on both sides of the hip, it's good to use a neckweigth!!

 

[docgreenfingers]

Thanks everyone. Displaced the weight side of my hips and which seemed to work for me. My legs and back did not arch backwards as before. Thanks

 

[Alina]

Arching the back usually comes from looking at the bottom. Baaaad habbit. hard to brake.

 

[docgreenfingers]

Arching the back usually comes from looking at the bottom. Baaaad habbit. hard to brake.

Yep and don't I know it. Did it today. It's that feeling you might bump into something.