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| Originally Posted by [b Quote[/b] ]OK, speaking as a novice who's just had his first drysuit dives...
On my first dive, I didn't wear them. It was a bloody nightmare.
On my second dive, I wore ankle weights. It made an enormous difference (improvement).
I intend to wear ankle weights for a while, until I lose or forget them one day and realise I don't need them after all - because I think they will make the process of learning to use a drysuit much easier and probably safer. |
Good. Well done - you did it the right way round. Start without them, add them if you need them, hope to discard them later. Exactly how they SHOULD be used.
They really are the training wheels of the drysuit world. But whilst you see very few adults using training wheels on bikes, you see many experienced divers who've never tried to master the art of using a drysuit without leg irons. Go figure...