Maybe some other freediver has been in this kind of embarassed true situation, too:
I was looking parts for new lanyards. I went to a pet shop to look if they had waterproof collars for dogs' neck.
(They had, worth of trying for lanyards!)
A shop assistant asked me:
- For what kind of dog do you need it?
- Not for a dog, I need it for a human...I'll use it myself!
She looked me very slow and said nothing....
I blushed because I realized just then what she was thinking.
I tried to explain:
- I mean, I need just a little one so I can put it around my wrist. I put there an steel wire, which I attach to a strong long rope, so ...
She looked me even slower with that special look on her face...
- I mean, I do it in water, and I try to be there under water as long as I can, even minutes. It's hard and I can get a black out, and then my buddy can use that rope and steel wire...
(Oops, I though, maybe freediving is not so familiar to an average people than we use to think...)
- This hobby is called freediving.
Then she said slowly with still that look on her face:
-I see.
Then she continued:
-Maybe we have something suitable for THAT purpose, too.
Damn, why we have so extremly strange sport as our hobby!
I'm not interested in that kind of SM things, I'm interested in freediving and safety.
I still hope it is not some weird SM-thing as I sounds to be with black rubber suits, masks, lanyards in wrists, steel wires, strong ropes, heavy metal collars around neck (of course covered with black rubber!), black rubber belts with metal weights, discomfort, contractions, blue lips, "sambas" (just tell them what it means in our hobby...), black outs, etc.
rofl
BTW seriously:
In theory there can be little (just marginal)
benefit of using latex gloves in DYN and CWT. But not in DNF, CNF or FIM.
Probably gloves should be put over sleeves when using them in dynamic (streamlined). Using just latex gloves isn't so hard image thing to an average comp freediver. So trux, try to get some to Denmark WC for testing. Maybe they give some pairs to you for free for marketing purposes! Of course there are shops were you can test them dry, but for me that pet shop experience was shameful enough!
I had some ideas of using a gas mask in static, but let it be
Static is weird enough for other people already.
It would be better in AIDA rules to be anyway: Using a mask in static is not allowed.
After trux's ideas we should have now two different categoris for so called unashamed freediving...maybe style points included.