Desperate plea from a tired diver (email sent to Force Fin)

[WB2GLP]

I only wish that there were more examples of people wearing force fins without dry suits and sneakers as that is not very practical down here in the Caribbean.

I have two sets of Force Fins. One I use with my drysuit. The other set is a size smaller that I wear with short ankle booties. I take them with me to the warmer waters. I will never waste my money on traditional fins again because my legs don't cramp with Force Fins. The other nice thing about having 2 pair is sharing. My smaller set is currently on loan to a fellow diver on vacation in the Caymans. I'm sure he will return a convert.

I guess you can call me a Force Fin evangelist. (There's a Force Fin ad campaign or a Buffett song somewhere in that last statement.)

 

[Nemrod]

My wife is a little bigger than you but still quite small, she likes her Mares fins. She wears boots with them of course. She almost always uses the smallest stuff I can find. So, I understand your plight, it makes no sense that dive gear tends to run so big and that most women's gear is simply scaled down "guy" gear with pink accents.

You may never be able to keep up with the big people but you should certainly be able to hold your own and enjoy your diving without struggling with ill designed and inadequate basic gear.

N

 

[Bob Evans]

Nemrod, When designing the Force Fin, I took a look at the existing foot pockets in other fins and they made no sense. So, I consulted with an orthopedic guy who taught me how to make foot castings for proper foot pocket shape analysis. I made castings off of men's, women's and children's feet, and used these castings to shape the Force Fin foot pockets. Fin blades are proportional to fin foot sizes, which is also unique to our company. I did a video of me casting Jean-Michel Cousteau foot. Will post the video next week so you can watch the process. Plus, who wants a fin hanging off the end of your foot?...makes no sense at all. Force Fin: The Foot Tells All

 

[Jlpskydive]

Thread HIGHJACK!! Bob please let me help you with your videos!! I will do it for free next time I'm out working on the West Coast....

Now back to the regularly scheduled thread....

 

[Nemrod]

Bob, when you have a FF that will back up, maneuver, accelerate or push a scuba diver or have that feeling of connected to the water like the SCUBAPRO original Jet Fins and only cost the 65 dollars I paid for my Jets from LP, you will have me buying my fourth set of FF and a fifth in pink for my wife. OK, go ahead and make it 120 dollars but I will not pay 500 dollars for a pair of fins, sorry. Not even Jets are worth that kind of money.

Put a tapered carbon fiber spine in the FF Pro right down the center and under or part of the foot pocket and make it 1/3 longer. Dimple the surface also. Leave off the whiskers and other gadgets.

N

 

[Bob Evans]

Nemrod, I am going to go eat a banana with a gorilla ‪ForceFin2020's Channel‬‏ - YouTube

 

[Nemrod]

Nemrod, I am going to go eat a banana with a gorilla ‪ForceFin2020's Channel‬‏ - YouTube

What happened to the UDT project?

To Whom It May Concern:Inspired by the frustration (and leg fatigue) I started a quest to find a decent pair of fins that could put me in the same league as the “stiff fin” divers that would fit my tiny feet.
Kitty Edwards
St. Thomas, USVI

As to the bananas and gorillas, I don't get leg fatigue (but cramps from ill fitting fins, yes) because I swim 8 miles a week with lead weighted hand paddles and lead ankle weights. But, that does not help the problem of tiny feet on a lot of women (and some men), nor does a fin designed not to cause cramps so I wonder, I don't think she complained of leg cramps, though she did mention leg fatigue. I think her complaint was that she could not locate a fin with similar capabilities to those used by her dive buddies due to her diminutive size? And I admit, after looking around, I do not see much for her in a conventional fin design that would be comparable to the fins her dive buddies use per her description of them. She does have a problem, but I don't think it was leg cramps unless she meant cramps when she said fatigue which are not always the same thing or caused by the same thing. Cramping may well be a fit issue, fatigue could be a fitness issue. Hard to say. I am sure the poor fins she has been using are the culprit, are FF the solution, you say yes, I say, well, maybe as long as going forward is the interest.

N

 

[meesier42]

Bob, when you have a FF that will back up, maneuver, accelerate or push a scuba diver or have that feeling of connected to the water like the SCUBAPRO original Jet Fins

???? Each and every pair of FF I have will back up, maneuver, and accelerate better than Jets. Every single diver I've every run controlled test with said the FF were not as good, but the data proved all of them wrong. Like many divers, you may be mixing the feeling of being connected to the feeling in your feet and the feeling of freedom of movement that occurs when your fin becomes an extension of you foot, vice hanging off the end of your foot.