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Supposed to best the best Russian Monofin..anyone know this?

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No no! I just bought it!!

I might get another one cause this one has been hardly used and rubber has been burned from the sun and salt.
 
I sent messages to likeafish within their website and through personal email but they dont responding. Does anyone knows any contact or any way this mono?
 
I have a starfins with thousands (approximately 3000) of hours on it with no visible signs of wear other that on the bottom of the footpockets from standing in the pool. The fin arrived perfectly tuned for my needs and fits precisely the way I ordered it. Blade angle is 28-31 degrees. My dive buddy also ordered one - also perfect - and I ordered one for my daughter as well - also perfect. All three fins have been performing flawlessly with many many hours of open water and pool use.

Here it is on my float

 
I was replying to the original post and questions about 'best monofin'.

There are a number of very good fin-makers - most difficult is the communication problem - and getting the fin sized correctly for your use.
If your fin is comfortable consider youself lucky! (unless it is a competition fin - in which case you may want it tighter)

It took a long time, and more money than I care to admit, to find a fin maker who reliably makes high quality fins that actually fit!
 
Since I have this fin -I no longer leave a trail of blood in the pool!
 
ran a translate on the site Spear posted - assuming those are rubles it is priced on a par with other hyperfins at about 472us. Interesting lamination pattern on some of the blades.

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dimitris33 said:
I sent messages to likeafish within their website and through personal email but they dont responding. Does anyone knows any contact or any way this mono?
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Hi guys

hyperfins.ru
Builders name is Ivan Shakhov lipeevaj"AT"mail.ru

Best regards
Herup
 
Hi DB again

Here is some picts of two fins from Hyperfins, the black one being mine.

It's a very nice fin; footpockets are IMO more firm than on waterway and especially on Starfins (the later being a lot more comfi though) so its not so much the rubber that operates, more the fiber.
The fin is not for long sessions and electricians tape is a must for my toes when taking it to the sea. It does compress in the deep but is still firm and has thrust to spare. In pool it's a bliss, and that's also what it was bought for. I send a lot of foot measurements to Ivan Shakhov via email (not the online order form) and I believe the fit of the footpocket that came out of it is as perfect as it gets with these hand build fins.
Hardness is whats called "3H", which i think is slightly softer than the waterway standard Middle D glide fin. Still I would actually have liked it to be even softer, but I'm also a skinny weakling rofl
I know Shakhov buys the glassfiber for the fins from France; whether that being the raw glassfiber or the entire blade is unknown.
The blade is 70,5cm wide and 55,5cm long measured between the foot pockets.
It came well packed with slow mail from Novosibirsk. Delivery time was quite long due to various holidays, customs problems and similar which I believe to be out of the hands of Shakhov. Service was super, replies to email fast and in an ok English

I wrote to Ivan to join the forum and this thread; hope he does.

Best regards
Herup
 

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do you want monofin for deep dives or for pool ?
personally i use Leaderfins Hyper pro
they have 2 types of Hyper pro monofins ...

hyper pro and the hyper deep pro ..

the reason that the divers is not liking the hyper pro is because it doesn't have negative buoyancy ..
but they are very good for pool training .

the hyper pro is natural buoyancd at 13-15m ... at 10m it float fast .

now leaderfins made the Hyper deep pro for the deep divers ... it is negative bouyancd mono fin ..

all divers i know they use the hyper pro and not the deep model .. so we don't have feedback for this model ..

but i will see if i can buy one maybe next month .
 
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