So I am poking about in Scubaboard and I see something that catches my eye. I thought it would make a good launch pad for a thread over here.
This OP starts by asking
A sales rep from Mares responds.
Huh. I seem to read that the OP is worried that the fin might be too much, and the sales rep responds that "want to FEEL power and need STRONG legs"
Bob, I think I have finally cracked the problem with your fins. You can't FEEL THE POWER. The concept of "WANT TO REALLY FEEL POWER" is mind boggling to me. I want to know the power if there and never feel a thing. The beauty of a truly effcient fin is the ability to obtain power and speed without feeling it. The only feed back of my ForceFins that I get, is the rush of water moving by me. I don't feel them on my feet, or any strain against my calves, or twist in my knees. Often there is so little feedback I don't even feel like I am kicking to get where I want to.
I would like to relay a quick story over that happened just about 3-4 days ago up in Alaska. Avi and I decided we are going to dive, the weather is crappy, its been raining for 2 days, that wind is blowing and there is 2-3 foot chop in front of the house and high tide passed almost an hour ago, but we aren't concerned, we are going diving. We hit the water and turn to the south into the current, and start our dive. Down we go, viz is terrible, maybe 10 feet at first, but we remain confident, we hit 60 feet and the viz is improving, up to about 20 feet, we continue deeper. We are approaching 90 and this viz is finally reasonable approaching 35feet. We continue south at a leisurely pace checking out the sites, I look ahead to see were Avi is heading and I see a fish coming straight at me at what appeared to be a strong sprint. I put my light on it and barely catch it as it flys by me and out of sight about a second later, then my mind retraces this event and I realize, that was just a piece of kelp, how can it go so fast?? I look at the bottom, and say to myself, there isn't enough current for that, it had to be a fish and I quickly decided to see how much current there was and stopped kicking. In a flash, I was 30 feet behind Avi and the gap was growing fast. Huh, I guess there is that much current. So I kick it into high gear and in just a quickly I am back at his side. The only thing I could think after this event was, man do I love my ForceFins. After the dive we were discussing this and concluded their was at least a full knot of current and likely closer to 2. But our trusty ForceFins (Avi in TanDeltas, me in Excellerating TanDeltas) lived up to their name yet again. Another highly successful dive made possible by the wonders of ForceFin, Bob you are the man.
Blair, sorry I didn't save it for Tuesday, but the mood just kind of hit me.
I edited out the names of the OP's to avoid too much bashing
This OP starts by asking
A sales rep from Mares responds.
Huh. I seem to read that the OP is worried that the fin might be too much, and the sales rep responds that "want to FEEL power and need STRONG legs"
Bob, I think I have finally cracked the problem with your fins. You can't FEEL THE POWER. The concept of "WANT TO REALLY FEEL POWER" is mind boggling to me. I want to know the power if there and never feel a thing. The beauty of a truly effcient fin is the ability to obtain power and speed without feeling it. The only feed back of my ForceFins that I get, is the rush of water moving by me. I don't feel them on my feet, or any strain against my calves, or twist in my knees. Often there is so little feedback I don't even feel like I am kicking to get where I want to.
I would like to relay a quick story over that happened just about 3-4 days ago up in Alaska. Avi and I decided we are going to dive, the weather is crappy, its been raining for 2 days, that wind is blowing and there is 2-3 foot chop in front of the house and high tide passed almost an hour ago, but we aren't concerned, we are going diving. We hit the water and turn to the south into the current, and start our dive. Down we go, viz is terrible, maybe 10 feet at first, but we remain confident, we hit 60 feet and the viz is improving, up to about 20 feet, we continue deeper. We are approaching 90 and this viz is finally reasonable approaching 35feet. We continue south at a leisurely pace checking out the sites, I look ahead to see were Avi is heading and I see a fish coming straight at me at what appeared to be a strong sprint. I put my light on it and barely catch it as it flys by me and out of sight about a second later, then my mind retraces this event and I realize, that was just a piece of kelp, how can it go so fast?? I look at the bottom, and say to myself, there isn't enough current for that, it had to be a fish and I quickly decided to see how much current there was and stopped kicking. In a flash, I was 30 feet behind Avi and the gap was growing fast. Huh, I guess there is that much current. So I kick it into high gear and in just a quickly I am back at his side. The only thing I could think after this event was, man do I love my ForceFins. After the dive we were discussing this and concluded their was at least a full knot of current and likely closer to 2. But our trusty ForceFins (Avi in TanDeltas, me in Excellerating TanDeltas) lived up to their name yet again. Another highly successful dive made possible by the wonders of ForceFin, Bob you are the man.
Blair, sorry I didn't save it for Tuesday, but the mood just kind of hit me.
I edited out the names of the OP's to avoid too much bashing
