| I think you're quite right, Mike. You often see ankle weights on new divers, used as a quick fix solution, and so they get associated with inexperience - but wrongly so.
It is true that most trim problems can be sorted by getting the rest of your kit straight, so in time it is common for people to eventually lose ankle weights - I did. But even so, they are a perfectly legitimate tool. I know plenty of divers using heavy jet fins and in part because that extra weight assists their trim. As you say, what's the difference between that or having a lighter fin that suits you better combined with ankle weights? None whatsoever.
It all comes down to what works for you. I've always done my own thing with kit - borrowing ideas that I found to be best from those I've dived with - and don't have much time for the kit fascists who insist that their way is the only way.
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