spearing in a monofin?

I've tried it, but it didn't work so well for my local conditions- shallowish with lots of weeds and low vis.

If you were doing some deep aspetto in clear water it might work out for you. Another issue is not being able to scull to maintain position in the water column. I think it would be fine for dropping down and lying in the sand.

Jon

jtkwest said:

is this possible? to spearfish in one of those, when i saw the guy on tv, the undulating swimming motion, seemed like it wouldnt work, but who knows? but the speed should allow access to deeper spots, no? that monofin with the levered blades made of carbon fiber are amazing.

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Yes of course it's possible but its extremly inconvenient. First of all, for aspettos; you will have a tough time leveling yourself up (unless you planning to swim parallel to the bottom like a flatfish ).

2nd: it will be hard for you to keep equilibrium in midwater (since you would usually use either legs (in bifins) to adjust yourself accordingly but with the monofin you lose this ability).

So I guess monofins are rather more useful only if you are planning to go in a straight tragectory direction (e.g: straight to the bottom) or just straight horizontal swim, or in a way 2D: forward-backward or up-down... but if u are mixing in btw, or will start moving in 3D way (which is the natural way for spearfishing but not free-diving, then that will be very inconvenient and the disadvantage of monofin will outweigh the advantage of the monofins as being faster than bifins (and by the way, they are only slightly faster but not that extreme).

At the end its up to to u to use bifins or monofins

Hope that was useful

I'm a bit surprised Mullins hasn't chipped in. He enjoys doing so on occasion, as do a couple of others that I know of. I haven't tried it yet, but I intend to at some stage.

Not everybody's cup of tea, but it seems to have its place.