where can I get neckweights?

[Polorutz]

I am trying to improve my DNF but the pool in which I train is a 50m one, I cant possibly swim the whole thing while relaxing due to the fact that I always end up floating in the surface...

Where can one purchase a neckweight or how do you make one?

 

[Bill]

If you want to start simple, take 1/2 meter of weight belt and attach 1 or 2 kilos at each end. Just loop it over your neck. Soft ankle weights work well too. I've only used them for a few sessions but they haven't fallen off yet.
Aloha
Bill

 

[Narsil]

A few people here in New Zealand make them (non commercially) by using lead shot inside a portion of a bicycle tube, and then sealing and attaching each end via a plastic clip mechanism, like you would see on a backpack.

Haven't got a photgraph sorry, but I hope you can visualise effectively from that description. Should be pretty easy to make.

 

[Polorutz]

A few people here in New Zealand make them (non commercially) by using lead shot inside a portion of a bicycle tube, and then sealing and attaching each end via a plastic clip mechanism, like you would see on a backpack.

Haven't got a photgraph sorry, but I hope you can visualise effectively from that description. Should be pretty easy to make.

very very interesting... what do you mean by bycicle tube??... you mean like the handbrakes small tubing or the tube inside the tire?

 

[jome]

This is just one design:
http://www.freedivingfinland.net/nuke/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=112

(text in finnish, but you get the idea from the picture).

If you don't want to use a buckle, just glue/tie the ends together and you can stretch it over your head...

I find that using 0.5 to 1kg normal lead weights on a normal belt works well too.

I've seen some people use a weight harness too for dynamic quite succesfully. Spearfishers use those a lot, so you would propably find one from a store that sells spearfishing equipment.

 

[Narsil]

very very interesting... what do you mean by bycicle tube??... you mean like the handbrakes small tubing or the tube inside the tire?

A tire inner tube - relatively narrow, so road bike rather than mountain bike tire I would say.

 

[octopus]

I'll get you a few photos of my neck weights in 8-9 hrs time, with some details.

 

[BennyB]

Here's some pics of my neckweight and waistweight. I'm sure there is a thread somewhere on DB with a Word document explaining how to make them, I recall using it when I made mine. The clips you can either get off an old bag or at a clothing/sewing/habedashery shop.

The only trouble I have with mine is that the water leaks in and drains out dirty lead-water for hours and hours after. The next model I make will probably be siliconed shut to prevent this.

I'm moving to England next week, I was tossing up whether to take all my clothes and shoes, or a pair of undies, shorts and my neckweights. Unfortunately my wife had some influence in this discussion so the neckweights are staying at home :waterwork

Cheers,
Ben

 

[DeepThought]

Use the search function, there is probably atleast one more thread here with DIY neckweight, might have a document with some pictures even.

 

[Groupermadness]

Or just get married, then you have a permanent neckweight LOL.

 

[immerlustig]

you will be in serious trouble once your missus shows up here

some people dig their own holes. hehe

good luck, though

roland

 

[Ricochet]

Nice pics, BennyB.


I'm currently designing some kind of weight harnes. (Got inspired from this one: [ame=http://forums.deeperblue.net/showthread.php?p=428861]Rubber Tube[/ame])


It's worn like a backpack. Of course much smaller and hydrodynamic. It is located between the shoulder blades and hold by backpack-clips for fast release. I still need to get some tough Nylon for the lead pockes though to finish the prototype.
I may go to the office later today to scan my designs and post them here.


Sascha

 

[subaquaticus]

I am trying to improve my DNF but the pool in which I train is a 50m one, I cant possibly swim the whole thing while relaxing due to the fact that I always end up floating in the surface...

Where can one purchase a neckweight or how do you make one?

I am the inventor of a good trick :

1. just take a pair of ankle weights (2 x 0.500 kg) ;

2. tie them together ;

3. put it around your neck ...

then you have a marvellous 1 kg neck weight...

You can do the same with one or two additional pairs of ankle weights...

I put 3 pairs of ankle weights around my neck (3 kg) ;

since I am not yet neutral with thes 3 kg around my neck (in swimming suit) ; I put an additional 0.500 kg lead around my waist (with a Marseillaise)...

for constant weight see there : http://forums.deeperblue.net/showthread.php?t=60516&highlight=neckweight+constant

 

[BennyB]

Thanks Sascha.

Yeah I know what you mean with the back harness. We tried something similar, based on a photo we saw of Tom Sietas. Unfortunately for us it tended to flip us on our back most of the time. The idea is very sound, as the weight is primarily sitting on top of the most buoyant part of the body. It would be interesting if anyone could make one that sat on the stomach instead, though I think there would be some trade off with shoulder/upper back flexibility.

Good luck with it!

Cheers,
Ben

 

[Alison]

I am the inventor of a good trick :

1. just take a pair of ankle weights (2 x 0.500 kg) ;

2. tie them together ;

3. put it around your neck ...

then you have a marvellous 1 kg neck weight...

You want to patent that idea

 

[Ocean Girl]

You want to patent that idea

i thought about doing that as i have ankleweights for gym
but then i thought that the people at our local pool would think i am into something weird :hmm

 

[Ricochet]

Thanks Sascha.

Yeah I know what you mean with the back harness. We tried something similar, based on a photo we saw of Tom Sietas. Unfortunately for us it tended to flip us on our back most of the time.

You have to see it from its positive side. It turns you on the back if you pass out at the surface :duh

Whatever, you don't have a pic of Tom's harnes (or yours) by the hand, do you?

 

[Alison]

You have to see it from its positive side. It turns you on the back if you pass out at the surface :duh

Whatever, you don't have a pic of Tom's harnes (or yours) by the hand, do you?

Sound point! Years ago we did some tests while scuba diving with the old style ABLJ's when fully inflated they wouldnt flip you face up without a weight belt but did 100% of the time with one, leading to a much posed uestion of the time, was it safer to not ditch your weight belt during an emergency ascent! Sorry off topic but sort of along the same theme

 

[subaquaticus]

i thought about doing that as i have ankleweights for gym

CAUTION ! your ankle weights for gym are not suited to water use !

if you use them in water, they will probably will tear down and tou will lose your lead in the water occasioning a terrible pollution... Lead is toxic...

 

[BennyB]

Here is Tom's backweight, which is on his website. To be honest i've not seen any footage of him wearing this so he may well have abandoned the idea.