Skorpio: Flame Blades Now on Stingray Footpockets

Pursuit said:

I don't know anything about the flame blades, but I offer my experience with the footpockets mentioned in this thread.

About Salvimar footpockets see this thread, please ignore the drama Salvimar Delta-one footpockets - Freedive Spearfishing Forum

The omer millennium f/p although not perfect are IMO an industry standard. Barring an irregular batch they’ve proven to be good f/p and withstood the test of time. I recently bought a pair of Stingray f/p to test. The stingray f/p are well finished. There's not a loose piece of rubber from the molding process sticking out anywhere as is the case with most footpockets, simply put they look nice and flawless. This is probably due to the fact that the stingray f/p are not made of latex, rather a synthetic material that allows a molding method which produces a better finish. The stingray f/p are also soft and comfortable. But this is where the good news ends. I could tell right away the tendons are very stiff and so combined the Stingrays with MS (medium soft) Pursuit carbon blades. The omer stingray f/p turned out to have the stiffest tendons I’ve seen in a footpocket. They bump up the stiffness of the fin a lot, to the point where you’d need a really soft a blade to achieve a moderate stiffness fin. Even so the whole portion of the fin from the toes of your foot to the end of the tendons simply doesn’t flex. The use of the synthetic material in a footpocket is questionable durability wise. There are reports of the tendons breaking on f/p that have not been heavily used. I had someone bring me his stingray f/p to show me just this problem.

The Stingrays have a small tab at the back of the footpocket slot. For optimal fit I had to reshape the back edge of the blades, I don't think it weakens the blade as in the case of the deep slot necessary for the Salvimar footpockets.

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