**Split Fins Let the Bashing Begin!**
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Once in awhile I'll trade off my splits for a paddle fin and I always hate the paddles. Oh and amazingly I never silt up the bottom with my spilts, have trouble in currents or anything else. And back finning, well I'm capable of taking a single finger and pushing backwards if needed 
Scoobahdood
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Split fins are an entanglement hazard....you can get a line caught in between them
Plus they're just lame, most of the hardcore divers use stiff fins like jets.
Plus they're just lame, most of the hardcore divers use stiff fins like jets.
diver 85
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yea, some come in prettier colors other than black......
fl-diver
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I personally use Cressi Gara 3000 long blade fins for freediving and scuba. I have never even tried split fins. But I just happen to have a pair for sale for somebody who wants to try them and doesn't want to buy new.
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ge...eidon-regs-atomic-split-fins.html#post3442119
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ge...eidon-regs-atomic-split-fins.html#post3442119
Coalcracker
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Split fins are an entanglement hazard....you can get a line caught in between them
Plus they're just lame, most of the hardcore divers use stiff fins like jets.
Most of the smarter divers have already adopted the new technology. Stiffer is only good for certain non diving apps. Less resistance and more performance seems to make way more sense. I can do all styles of kicks with by bio XT model. No problems at all. I still have my 30 year old Jets and some Mares power plana fins and several other model paddle fins. The old style paddle fins now feel like bricks or boards on my feet.
If you use them you can justify how good they are cuz you use them and don't want to look bad cuz you do.
If you don't well you bash them cuz they are not as good as what you use...
If your not using the old Idea 3 fins you are a fool.
If you don't well you bash them cuz they are not as good as what you use...
If your not using the old Idea 3 fins you are a fool.
Silting is primarily a function of diving technique -- a combination of trim and kick, and where you are with respect to the bottom. I do not believe it is possible to do a full-leg flutter kick and not send water downward; the physics just require it. If you dive far enough off the bottom, in a horizontal position, and the kick is not too big, you won't do a lot of silting. But I think you can do a frog kick and not disturb the bottom at all, where a flutter kick giving equivalent propulsion will.
Frog kicking is really more comfortable and more efficient in a stiff fin. Even very flexible blade fins don't work very well.
Flutter kicking in stiff blade fins, for me, is extremely uncomfortable. But since it's the kick I use least, that's not an issue.
BTW, I have owned and used both, as a novice diver and now, a bit further on. I much prefer the blades. All the kicks I know, I can do in both, but they are easier and more efficient in blade fins, except for the flutter kick.
Frog kicking is really more comfortable and more efficient in a stiff fin. Even very flexible blade fins don't work very well.
Flutter kicking in stiff blade fins, for me, is extremely uncomfortable. But since it's the kick I use least, that's not an issue.
BTW, I have owned and used both, as a novice diver and now, a bit further on. I much prefer the blades. All the kicks I know, I can do in both, but they are easier and more efficient in blade fins, except for the flutter kick.
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