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SEASOFT Ankle Weights 1.5 lbs. each (Pair)
As divers, we have seen the slow migration of weights and equipment as they move from the waist area to the upper body. BCs have gotten shorter and where a weight belt was once around your waist, the weight pockets in your BC are up against your rib cage. The results of this has been the slow but sure elevation of the legs as they have gone up and up. This creates HYDRO DRAG! Hydro drag is the resistance caused by you, your equipment and suit as they move forward thru the water. Water is 800 X more dense than air so when you interact with water you want as much HYDRO DYNAMIC efficiency as possible. The more efficient you are in interrupting the flow of water over you, your gear and your drysuit the:
1. More air you will have.
2. Longer your bottom times will be.
3. Less fatigue you will feel and you will feel like you have more energy.
4. Increase you will find in your underwater speed will be substantial and natural so you can see more or less on a dive. Your decision.
5. You become a better buddy! Faster, more efficient, and less likely to be the "weak link" in the buddy pair up.
Some divers have tried to cure "Legs Up" by diving with:
1. Little air in their suit to avoid the movement of air; this is almost exclusively a shell suit issue.
2. Because of the above they get thicker, warmer and more expensive undergarments that help keep them warm in the "squeeze". The SQUEEZE is the absence of any measurable air in their drysuit. (Isn't it air that is supposed to keep us warm?)
So finally they try:
Adding ankle weights to their ankles as a last resort because they have tried everything else. They find this works as they remove weight from the upper half of the body and put weight on the bottom half, doubling the benefit of the ankle weights. This brings the legs that were catching hundreds of lbs. of water DOWN, inline with the body and helps you vastly improve your HYDRODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY!
IMPORTANT: When you move 3 lbs. from the top 1/2 of the diver to the ankles (the lower half) you have actually transferred 6 lbs. ( -3 from TOP and +3 to the BOTTOM for a net weight transfer of 6 lbs.) It's like if you were having a tug of war and you got a new person on your team and the other team lost a person. It would then be as if you have gained TWO people.
Your AUTHORIZED SEASOFT DEALER can assist you in finding dive gear that is warm, comfortable and more HYDRODYNAMICALLY EFFICIENT!
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- SEASOFT Ankle Weights 1.5 lbs. each (Pair)
- As divers, we have seen the slow migration of weights and equipment as they move from the waist area to the upper body. BCs have gotten shorter and where a weight belt was once around your waist, the weight pockets in your BC are up against your rib cage. The results of this has been the slow but sure elevation of the legs as they have gone up and up. This creates HYDRO DRAG! Hydro drag is the resistance caused by you, your equipment and suit as they move forward thru the water. Water is 800 X more dense than air so when you interact with water you want as much HYDRO DYNAMIC efficiency as possible. The more efficient you are in interrupting the flow of water over you, your gear and your drysuit the:
- 1. More air you will have.
- 2. Longer your bottom times will be.
- 3. Less fatigue you will feel and you will feel like you have more energy.
- 4. Increase you will find in your underwater speed will be substantial and natural so you can see more or less on a dive. Your decision.
- 5. You become a better buddy! Faster, more efficient, and less likely to be the "weak link" in the buddy pair up.
- Some divers have tried to cure "Legs Up" by diving with:
- 1. Little air in their suit to avoid the movement of air; this is almost exclusively a shell suit issue.
- 2. Because of the above they get thicker, warmer and more expensive undergarments that help keep them warm in the "squeeze". The SQUEEZE is the absence of any measurable air in their drysuit. (Isn't it air that is supposed to keep us warm?)
- So finally they try:
- Adding ankle weights to their ankles as a last resort because they have tried everything else. They find this works as they remove weight from the upper half of the body and put weight on the bottom half, doubling the benefit of the ankle weights. This brings the legs that were catching hundreds of lbs. of water DOWN, inline with the body and helps you vastly improve your HYDRODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY!
- IMPORTANT: When you move 3 lbs. from the top 1/2 of the diver to the ankles (the lower half) you have actually transferred 6 lbs. ( -3 from TOP and +3 to the BOTTOM for a net weight transfer of 6 lbs.) It's like if you were having a tug of war and you got a new person on your team and the other team lost a person. It would then be as if you have gained TWO people.
- Your AUTHORIZED SEASOFT DEALER can assist you in finding dive gear that is warm, comfortable and more HYDRODYNAMICALLY EFFICIENT!
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