Good edeal on LP95s?

[PerroneFord]

LOL!!

Actually, the lettering I used is not recommended. I just saw it on the internet and decided to try it. I did my single tank first, then my doubles. When I went to vis the doubles, I had to clean off galvanic gunk and crap from under the bands. I thought the letters would peel right off. NOPE! Tried a razor knife, putty scraper, light heat application, everything. When I finally got that garbage off, I swore I'd never go through that again. I had used die cut letters on the bottom with my initials. They came right off. So I just used that for my name lettering.

By the way.. Im 4 of 5.. not a lemming! LOL!

LOL if you weren't a lemming you wouldn't have had that issue to start with

J/K

 

[danktex]

I am 6'4" and absolutely love my Faber 95s. Got them from Joel at TDL for a steal.

 

[PerroneFord]

Dangit. How do you guys do that. LP95s put me on my head and I'm only 6'0".

 

[SparticleBrane]

Have you considered that it might not be the tank?
Not saying that it IS you, but many people have a tendency to blame equipment before they blame themselves for poor technique.

I was in the pool today with the open water class I volunteer for and I just wasn't on top of my game. The harness on the Eclipse I was using wasn't adjusted like I prefer and for whatever reason my right leg and right foot just weren't cooperating. It was the student's first time in the diving well and as we slowly went from the shallow end to the deeper section I watched myself on the mirrors we have on the side of the pool. Trim was nice but my right leg was above my left, if that makes any sense...even though they both felt as if they were side by side. Then when backing up my right leg and foot just didn't work like I wanted.
The point of that story is that even though you may THINK you're doing something one way...a lot of the times, you're not.

 

[PerroneFord]

I've had friends go into the water with me regularly and monitor my trim and technique. I've had photos taken to look at this, and I've have video taken to monitor myself. I'm fairly clean in the water. With my legs absolutely straight, I trim out nicely with 95s. However, if I hover with my legs bent, I very slowly tip forward. In 108s, no problem.

I dove a set of PST 104s a few weeks ago and the problem was worse in those than in the 95s. And this was a back to back dive with the 108s, same conditions, same everything else.

 

[SparticleBrane]

Well, sounds like 108s are your best bet.
Double LP95s are good for me...perfect trim. (Hopefully when I get some X8-119s they'll do the same. I'm thinking they will)