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I have a pouch belt and put less than half the weight you put in there. The only thing that has broken so far is the thing you pull the zipper closed with. I am still surprised there wasn't a bit of a tear you could see starting up as opposed to it just breaking. I do use suspenders which may ease the weight burden on the pouch, but I've used the pouch belt for 8 years. I have to talk Imperial on this, but I use 41 pounds with a 7 mil farmer john wetsuit and AL80 tank. 20 pounds in BCD, 7 pounds total in shoulder pockets and the rest (14 pounds--which is about 6 Kgs I think--in the belt). Probably a good idea to get some weight out of the belt whether it should've broken or not. I won't get into being overweighted. Weight checks don't lie. People with way more experience than me say I'm way overweighted--until they witness my weight check and watch me dive. Everyone is different. A fellow DM at the shop who just got his Instructors uses the same weight and is my size.