I'm about ready to give up.
While drysuiting it is ALWAYS an argument with air and gravity to keep my feet down north of about 30 feet. As soon as I'm under that ceiling, or thereabouts, I can take and maintain any body position I like, having most of my weight in the thick SS backplate. But as soon as I'm up above, the feet start getting floaty. I don't even want to talk about my typical monkeybars, like saftey stop.
Even if I go completely head-up vertical (not an easy thing to do, with the feet so very desirous of pointing skyward) and get every ounce of air out of them boots, as soon as I go horizontal again, up to the surface they try to go.
I'm about ready (after about 50 dives in the thing) to proclaim this a function of the boots being 5mm neoprene and get ankle weights, but I am incredibly loath to do this, feeling that it's a cop out, somehow. I'm also nervous that now, at depth, maintaining any trim I'm in the mood for will become more of a hastle having exchanged inherent footsy bouyancy near the surface for inherent leadfoot at the bottom.
So what's the concesus? Am I just wearing too little belt lead? Do I just need more practice? Or am I just being stubborn in thinking it's a cop-out and could really get some benefit out of some low poundage ankle weights?
While drysuiting it is ALWAYS an argument with air and gravity to keep my feet down north of about 30 feet. As soon as I'm under that ceiling, or thereabouts, I can take and maintain any body position I like, having most of my weight in the thick SS backplate. But as soon as I'm up above, the feet start getting floaty. I don't even want to talk about my typical monkeybars, like saftey stop.
Even if I go completely head-up vertical (not an easy thing to do, with the feet so very desirous of pointing skyward) and get every ounce of air out of them boots, as soon as I go horizontal again, up to the surface they try to go.
I'm about ready (after about 50 dives in the thing) to proclaim this a function of the boots being 5mm neoprene and get ankle weights, but I am incredibly loath to do this, feeling that it's a cop out, somehow. I'm also nervous that now, at depth, maintaining any trim I'm in the mood for will become more of a hastle having exchanged inherent footsy bouyancy near the surface for inherent leadfoot at the bottom.
So what's the concesus? Am I just wearing too little belt lead? Do I just need more practice? Or am I just being stubborn in thinking it's a cop-out and could really get some benefit out of some low poundage ankle weights?