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| Originally Posted by Gav Practice. I recently switched from cuff to shoulder and wouldn't go back, although it does take some practice, as anything new does.
If, after 20 dives you really don't like it then consider changing, but do give any new equipment time to bed in.
(Acknowledgements to Mark Powell for the original advice  ) |
Same here. I've just replaced my cuff dump with a shoulder dump, it's taking some getting used to but I'm getting there.
The cuff dump is certainly easier to use for dumping but my problem with it has been "over-dumping", resulting in some difficulty making a steady ascent and instead, doing the yo yo.
The beauty is that the new one automatically dumps air, and smoothly too, throughout the ascent, maintaining pretty well constant buoyancy, allowing use of the bcd for fine control.