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04-21-2016, 07:46 AM | #1 |
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Soft, Medium, or Hard?
I am looking into upgrading my fins. Everyone says to go carbon fiber and I might or I might go fiberglass. What I am not sure of is what stiffness to get.
I have been using cressi garas for the past couple of years now. Does the stiffness affect how hard you work versus how much propulsion you get? I would rather kick easier, more often if that make any since. Does that mean I need a soft blade? |
04-21-2016, 09:26 AM | #2 |
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Re: Soft, Medium, or Hard?
How big are you?
Strong legs? How deep are you diving? The fin distributor may be there best option as far as getting the right stiffness as different companies blades of soft, med, stiff may be different. i.e. one companies medium may be the same stiffness as anothers hard fin. |
04-21-2016, 10:18 AM | #3 |
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Re: Soft, Medium, or Hard?
The trend now is to use as soft as possible while they still move you. The there are other factors like how much do you swim, if you dive from a boat or from shore, your weight, etc.
Which color of Garas were you using? If black, those are stiff. If gray, thos are medium/soft. But even more important than blade stiffness is footpocket fit. If they don't fit right to you, it would be a nightmare to swim with them.
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04-21-2016, 11:28 AM | #4 |
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Re: Soft, Medium, or Hard?
SBlount, Im 5'9" 205. legs are like tree trunks.
I usually dive from a boat. 50/50 scuba and free diving. When free diving its a 50/50 mix of blue water and reef. Probably 60' max on the depth. I have the grey garas. I feel like they bend too much without any propulsion. |
04-21-2016, 04:11 PM | #5 |
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Re: Soft, Medium, or Hard?
get gara 2000s. Fiberglass or carbon are gonna suck for scuba diving unless you get super stiff ones.
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04-21-2016, 04:46 PM | #6 | |
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Re: Soft, Medium, or Hard?
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I think they are a stiffer medium and are comparable to a hard (40) C4 carbon fin. I hope this helped some. |
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04-21-2016, 05:02 PM | #7 |
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Re: Soft, Medium, or Hard?
I have gara 2000 now. I will keep them for scuba because I get down and dirty scraping the hell out of them. Plus I already have my trim down with the cressis. Those moanas look really nice but too pricey. I have a son that can't make money yet so everything I buy is in pairs.
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04-21-2016, 05:10 PM | #8 |
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Re: Soft, Medium, or Hard?
For your description, I would get mediums.
Leaderfins make great/unexpensive carbon fins. My older son has them for two years now and they're going strong. I think that Mako sells them.
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04-21-2016, 05:30 PM | #9 |
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04-21-2016, 08:43 PM | #10 |
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Re: Soft, Medium, or Hard?
I'm no expert by any means but I have the Med Carbon Mix leaderfins and I love them. The Neo Gold camo blends in good with the reef I got these because I was limited in fins I could try on. The Leaderfin foot pocket was perfect for my foot. If I could have tried Mako foot pockets I would have got the Mako Leaderfins since I like doing business with them.
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04-21-2016, 09:12 PM | #11 | |
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I tried out the same blades in soft and in the Bahamas with all day swimming, relatively shallow dives, I would prefer the soft blades. But for my normal diving - i am very happy with the mako FG medium blades.. the pockets are very comfortable.
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