Question Is the KISS Sidewinder the best to learn on on & keep for a lifetime?

[Wibble]

You haven’t mentioned your choice of bailout rebreather. The sidewinder isn’t great for use with buttmounted bailout rebreathers.

 

[admikar]

Scubaboard tradition is live and kicking in 2025.

 

[DiveLikeAMuppet]

You haven’t mentioned your choice of bailout rebreather. The sidewinder isn’t great for use with buttmounted bailout rebreathers.

Easy, Sidewinder together with DiveTalk Go. Plug both into the same dil and O2 bottles to save space and to lower the number of regulator failure points.

 

[Fat old english bloke]

Easy, Sidewinder together with DiveTalk Go. Plug both into the same dil and O2 bottles to save space and to lower the number of regulator failure points.

Team that lot up with a K01 hood, Santi or SF Tech drysuit and personalised XDeep wing and you’ll be the coolest kid in the water.

 

[rddvet]

If Harbor Freight was a CCR it would be a sidewinder. It's a tool that's cheaply made with cheap parts. It'll work for you for a little bit, but much sooner than later it's going to fall apart or break. Because it's made of cheap plastic. Eventually you'll realize it was kind of a piece of crap and you'll eventually go buy the Craftsman version.
Big difference is a cheap wrench isn't going to drown you when it breaks

 

[rddvet]

. Plug both into the same dil and O2 bottles to save space a.

I think the only thing getting plugged into is your rear end if you buy a GO