Cressi gara professional ld heel slip

[Travis Bourbeau]

Thanks again for the feedback. Fyi I spent about 2 hours with them yesterday, overall I really enjoyed the fit and feel. Speed is exhilarating the first 30 mi. I was amazed that the water could feel like wind through my hair. Adrenaline rush like running a race for the first time. I really think everyone should try them once.

Because I only have 2 months worth of diving...i think unfortunetly, ill be returning them to invest in a more agile fin for now. Im on a fixed budget otherwise I would keep them and split my dives. I found that as exhilartating as the speed was it felt a little to limiting to only have the low gear so to speak and for my skill level i lack agility with them. Ill be trying hollis f1 next before returning to a split fin. With more experiance and extra budget I will defenetly return to a free dive fin someday ,without question, just no replacment for the speed they offer.

 

[danvolker]

The Hollis fins are good fins...far better than splits.... But what was wrong with the agility of the Cressi's? There is a technique you would learn over several days of diving, and quicker if you could find someone to mentor you. You can have great control with freediving fins--you can frog kick, you can hover motionless, you can learn to essentially shift gears by changing kick shape, almost like having 3 or 4 actual gears, to optimize effort, speed and control.
They are NOT great at reverse kicks, but unless you are a cave diver, or doing exploration level penetrations deep into shipwrecks, it is unlikely you would ever miss the reverse kick--given the superiority of everything else the freedive fins will do.