What are the top 3 requirements for a great swim fin?


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TECreation

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The state of the art in fins has been dragging (literally) along for decades. Every fin is essentally a board fastened to a foot. Until now. TECreation Development has been developing fins which work like airplane wings, but in water.
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Extensive testing has shown them to require substantially less effort to attain the same and better speeds than any other conventional fin. Most testers don't want to return them. Many divers have asked if they have the power that the calf busters have so we put it to the test with a tug of war.
So far we have shown Maximum Speed, Maximum Power, Maximum air utilization, Minimum leg stress, and frog kicking. (don't panic we will post all this again.) But we really want to know what makes a good fin for you.
 
as above.. plus neutral buoyancy, spring straps
 
Non silting, backwards finning and durable are the things that I need from fins.
 
No cramp inducing.
 
- Really? That is not a quality that is a brand. Why is it you like Jet Fins? What 3 qualities make that the fin of choice?

Most of us don't go diving to just swim fast underwater ...

a solution looking for a problem ?

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Non silting isn't an option...

In priority order:
- non silting (be it through frog kicks or something else)
- lightweight, yet neutrally buoyant (love my jet fins, but man are they heavy)
- durable, yet cheap (don't want to change them more than once every 2000 dives)

Availability of straps is in there somewhere.

Really don't care about power - if I want to go fast, I would use a DPV...
 
https://www.shearwater.com/products/perdix-ai/

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