Roy,
I promised you a review, so here goes:
First, other than the fact that he mailed me some crazy gillman gloves, I know nothing about Roy. So, gloves in hand, I drove off to the YMCA for some swimming and skin diving. Here's what they look like:
I did everything I normally do, but with the gloves on my hands. I changed into my swim gear, put my goggles on, and put on my dive watch all whilst gloved. They are pretty easy as far as manual dexterity goes. I swam for an hour, and then did skin diving and some apnea work for a while. Overall I am very pleased with these gloves. Here's what I think by activity:
Swimming:
-Great workout tool, they smoke your arms if you push hard.
-They make you have good form, or suffer if you do not.
-They remind me of a kickboard of pull buoy.
Skin diving:
-Using only my arms, I could execute all surface dives and swim around just fine.
-I think these would be great for handicapped diving.
-I could use my watch and do everything I needed to do with the gloves on my hands.
SCUBA
-They need to be a different color, because the all black ones make it very hard to give signs to your buddy, especially how much air you have in your tank.
-They did not impede my hands at all other than effectively communicating hand signals.
Apnea
-I could easily swim over 50 meters underwater on a breath hold with these gloves. I can do it in just swim trunks, but it felt WAY easier with the gloves. If you spread your fingers wide, you can pull enough water to pull your goggles up on your forehead if you are not streamlined in the water.
Conclusions:
I really like these. I'm a diver, but I'm a water baby anyway. I really like these for swimming, skin diving, training, and many other things. I think that my instructor would slap me on the back of the head if I wore all black webbed gloves and tried to communicate hand and arm signals underwater. I bet if you spray painted the webbing on the underside a really bright color (think the ventral side of a manta ray) that I could get hand signals across without looking like I had a trash bag on my hands. They have pretty good cool factor as well. I'd really like to try these when getting out past the surge on a beach dive. I also wonder if I could break my depth record freediving with these, they are really fast!
Thank you for making an interesting and useful product Roy! I'd like to talk to you offline about carrying some in the shop when you get a chance.
I promised you a review, so here goes:
First, other than the fact that he mailed me some crazy gillman gloves, I know nothing about Roy. So, gloves in hand, I drove off to the YMCA for some swimming and skin diving. Here's what they look like:
I did everything I normally do, but with the gloves on my hands. I changed into my swim gear, put my goggles on, and put on my dive watch all whilst gloved. They are pretty easy as far as manual dexterity goes. I swam for an hour, and then did skin diving and some apnea work for a while. Overall I am very pleased with these gloves. Here's what I think by activity:
Swimming:
-Great workout tool, they smoke your arms if you push hard.
-They make you have good form, or suffer if you do not.
-They remind me of a kickboard of pull buoy.
Skin diving:
-Using only my arms, I could execute all surface dives and swim around just fine.
-I think these would be great for handicapped diving.
-I could use my watch and do everything I needed to do with the gloves on my hands.
SCUBA
-They need to be a different color, because the all black ones make it very hard to give signs to your buddy, especially how much air you have in your tank.
-They did not impede my hands at all other than effectively communicating hand signals.
Apnea
-I could easily swim over 50 meters underwater on a breath hold with these gloves. I can do it in just swim trunks, but it felt WAY easier with the gloves. If you spread your fingers wide, you can pull enough water to pull your goggles up on your forehead if you are not streamlined in the water.
Conclusions:
I really like these. I'm a diver, but I'm a water baby anyway. I really like these for swimming, skin diving, training, and many other things. I think that my instructor would slap me on the back of the head if I wore all black webbed gloves and tried to communicate hand and arm signals underwater. I bet if you spray painted the webbing on the underside a really bright color (think the ventral side of a manta ray) that I could get hand signals across without looking like I had a trash bag on my hands. They have pretty good cool factor as well. I'd really like to try these when getting out past the surge on a beach dive. I also wonder if I could break my depth record freediving with these, they are really fast!
Thank you for making an interesting and useful product Roy! I'd like to talk to you offline about carrying some in the shop when you get a chance.
