Thank you all for your responses, especially Mal for your detailed reply.
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| Originally Posted by Mal Bridgeman
...When you said you felt uncomfortable on your stop you did not say how much gas you still had in your wing or whether you were finning upwards or downwards during the stop...
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35 bar in the twins, no air in the wing that I could find, I was wriggling around all over place to make sure there wasn't any trapped anywhere, and was experiencing Finless' copyrighted Genital Squeeze (would that be a Michael Jackson song, do you think?) off the drysuit. I ended up combining sipping tiny amounts of air and finning downwards when it all got too much. It wasn't a deco dive, thankfully...
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| Originally Posted by Mal Bridgeman
...changes should be made in small steps...
...I think that changing your overall weight in chunks of 2kg is going to make it hard for you to get comfortable with it...
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The overall problem I've been having is not yet finding any kind of constant by which to gauge what works for me, and that's making me change my weighting in a really crude way:
I've done weight test days at Horsea (brackish water, usually -1kg for me), and under a pier with exactly the same kit configuration and came to the conclusion that I was a tad underweight at 30 bar in salt water with 8kg, so when I first went out to sea I got hold of a 4.5kg V-weight and put 6kg in my wing weight pouches, total 10.5kg, just to be sure. As I was kitting up I impetuously grabbed my ankle weights (just to be double sure - nerves I guess) which added another 1.5kg to me overall. Total 12kg. That should be stupidly overweight, and yet I couldn't hold 3m at 35 bar on the second dive. So now I'm 8kg P and V weights, and 6 kg in my pouches: total 14kg with heavy Heiser 12s, or in other words 1kg more than I am with a 15 ltr steel and pony.
Of course it's very early days with the twins and I'll get there eventually, especially as I get more relaxed. I'm just very confused by all that weight, I thought I'd be shedding loads going to twins, and not just of money. I think I'm going to follow Mal's procedure, a bit more of weight testing at Horsea required. Maybe cutting an arm off, or if that failed (and only as a last resort obviously) leaving my lucky bouncy castle on the surface would help.
Thanks again everyone,
Nick