Rather than ACE bandages as a temporary gaiter, have you considered using transparent slightly stretchy tape that hockey players use on the outside of their socks to keep shinpads in place?
Does it have a name?
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Rather than ACE bandages as a temporary gaiter, have you considered using transparent slightly stretchy tape that hockey players use on the outside of their socks to keep shinpads in place?
Does it have a name?
Rather than ACE bandages as a temporary gaiter, have you considered using transparent slightly stretchy tape that hockey players use on the outside of their socks to keep shinpads in place?
Ankle weights are a poor substitute for proper gear and technique. Barring some sort of physical ailment, you should definitely be able to get it sorted out without having to resort to ankle weights. If using proper negative fins doesn't work, and you're still trapping air in your feet, get a set of gaiters. What you don't want to do is add weight that if lost will screw with you in awkward ways, adds excess weight that will cause fatigue when you swim, only works in one trim position, more weight to climb a ladder with, etc. I'm not saying they never have a place, they should just be the last option, not the first.
Thank you.I'm a female diver with a hip-heavy, foot-light build. I dove the Fusion Fit and Mares Avanti Quattro fins for almost 18 months and..... it wasn't going well.
The combination of a suit in which the feet are the most-inflatable part (because there's no skin) and mostly-neutral, slightly-positive fins made it incredibly difficult for me to maintain my stability. It actually cost me about a day of cave training because while blindfolded, I had to constantly fight the bubble that wanted to knock me off balance while figuring out how to correct my positioning WHILE not be able to see ish.
One of the most significant changes in my Fundamentals class was when the instructor told me that the fins were simply too light for me to stay balanced. I had to flail in order to generate the momentum to stay in place. I switched over to Jet Fins (super, duper negative) and life improved almost immediately. A heavier fin might be enough to fix you ($100-$150), rather than an entire drysuit upgrade ($thousands).