The importance of a wetsuit in freediving
The question that comes up time after time, concerns which piece of
equipment to buy first, and there seems to be a lot of confused thinking
about this. The usual solution is the fins.
My answer is invariably the same – the suit. When I was told this, it
took me a very long time to accept it. At first appearance there seem
to be two possible answers, one for freedivers and one for spear
fishermen. But although the answer is very clear for freedivers,
actually they eventually come to the same point.
My biggest lesson came teaching potentially elite freedivers in
Mexico. One thing has to be clear, if you want to make a living teaching
elite freedivers you better have another job as well!!
Elite freedivers, with few exceptions, have a burning passion and no money.
I had two students with great potential and of course no money. At
first they had borrowed suits, always borrowed suits are far too big,
probably from a large and not particularly slim person. Our athletes
being slender and fit looked like a stick of spaghetti in a bean bag.
After only half an hour in the water and two dives each, they were an
interesting shade of blue and shaking like leaves in a high wind.
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