MaxAir Swim Fins - Stay Down Longer with Less Effort

[scubadada]

Thank you for your reply. We have already done extensive quantitative testing and provided the results to you.
TECreation Development Products | MaxAir | High Efficiency Swim Fin for SCUBA
As far as I know, no other fin maker has ever done that. Now we are asking you to try the fins for yourself and test them the way you would like. The videos posted are the results of that. We have already offered to visit with you when you return to Florida so you can test the fins personally. Are you going to take us up on that?

Meanwhile we will be at Pennyroyal in Hopkinsville KY on June 24 to offer open testing in the morning. We hope some of you midwest divers join us.

Sorry, being a clinician and scientist, I am skeptical of the quantitative testing you have on your website. Far from the randomized, double-blind trial one would like to see.

I will take you up on your offer to try your fins on my next visit to SE FL. I just made a visit with 31 dives in 12 days, many of the dives, would have made for great fin trials.

Open minded, Craig

 

[TECreation]

I will take you up on your offer to try your fins

Great. We are on a trip to CA right now. Hopefully, a stop at Blue Hole in Santa Rosa NM Tuesday the 7th. Today we visited Bowie TX and compared the Maxair fins with the largest knife in the world.

Wednesday it is on to London Bridge. Yes it is in AZ.

 

[TECreation]

Ryan Hancock also tried the MaxAir fins in Ft. Lauderdale on Sea Experience. He liked them too.

 

[TECreation]

MaxAir fins have not gone away. We have been quietly improving them. We have had a bunch more divers try them and I will post their reviews soon. Meanwhile divers have been asking about the overall power of the fins. To test that we thought a Tug-of- war was appropriate. We mismatched the divers to see if the MaxAir could overcome the physical difference and it did.

 

[TECreation]

Anybody going to DEMA? I would love to meet you. Look for this T-shirt.
I will give you my cell by private message.

 

[stuartv]

How are they for back kicks? And frog kicks?

 

[TECreation]

Frog kicking works out wonderfully but the style is slightly different. If you try to do a classic frog kick you will be disappointed. But a slight modification results in an easier stroke, less wake, and more effective speed. Of course the speed can be traded off for less effort. Why work hard when you don't have to?

On the back kicks the jury is still out. It appears the MaxAir does not back up as well as the boards everyone is using now. They were designed to go forward. That being said, Judy, a senior fish identifier for REEF tested the maneuverability of the MaxAir swim fin prototypes. She found them easy to use with no significant problems. Here is the video.

 

[stuartv]

It looks to me like they are more comparable, in terms of their functionality, to a freediving fin than to a regular blade fin.

I would be curious to know how they compare to a good freediving fin. My Mako competition freediving fins only cost $90 and they also completely outmotor "regular" fins in a straight line. And they work very well for frog kicks and I can even back fin in them in somewhat. At least as well (better, I think) as what it looked like Judy was able to do in that video.

 

[TECreation]

I would be curious to know how they compare to a good freediving fin.

Glad you asked. Here is a review by a freediving instructor.

 

[tridacna]

Anybody going to DEMA? I would love to meet you. Look for this T-shirt. View attachment 430951
I will give you my cell by private message.

Do you have a booth?