SpyderTek
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If you dont mind my asking...What are "Gators"?
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If you dont mind my asking...What are "Gators"?
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jetblast00
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They're elastic you wrap around your calfs to keep the air out of your feet and lower leg in a drysuit.
http://www.halcyon.net/exposure/accessories01.shtml
scubakat
Senior Member
No ankle weights or gators for me. My drysuit boots fit properly and I use jet fins with spring straps. I swim with my feet up too. I think that the key here is to be properly weighted (not overweighted) and to not put too much air in your suit.
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My feet are floaty without them. In warm water with a shorty, the buoyancy of my boots is easier to cope with with ankle weights. In a full wetsuit, I usually don't wear them.
Another time I wear them is during drift dives along a wall. I like to keep an upright position for those dives - easier to do with ankle weights.
Another time I wear them is during drift dives along a wall. I like to keep an upright position for those dives - easier to do with ankle weights.
solodiver
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I use a set of turtle finns. I like my feet bouyant as i do the frog kick. so I don't have a problem.
Friggincold
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Not me, I don't need to wear training wheels
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Sometimes, when I am demonstrating a skill like fin pivot, I find that one leg just refuses to stay in place. So I use the ankle wts. At one point I used them with my neoprene drysuit, but since switching to the DUI trilam, I find the Rockboots act like gators, so I don't need the ankle wts.
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DiverInAk
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Yep, use them for the local diving I do for some very good reasons.
I use them most of the time. I customized my ankle weights to 10oz. With floaty feet, as long as I'm finning it isn't a problem but if I hover while horizontal I fight it. At this weight, they keep my feet neutral.
92630Diver
Contributor
I use ankle weights to relocate 4 pounds from my weight belt or weight integrated BC. This also helps a bit with horizontal trim when on the surface, at least in my case.
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