Spring suits/wetsuits

wakeboarderdave87 · Faceplant Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 18 City: St. Thomas

any body know of good ones(Oneill). would like to get started wakeboarding asap but the water is dam cold.

thanks

dave

wakebadass · Pop Shuvit Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 130 City: McHenry

dude, im not tryin to be a dick, but just jump in the water, you get used to it fast enough, i think that wet suits are just a waste of money. do a dock start and you be fine for a lil while, until you fall

wakeboarderdave87 · Faceplant Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 18 City: St. Thomas

to bad where i go there are really no docks. and still dont have a wakeskate but am going to get one soon. maybe in 2 weeks the water will warm up when i go for the first time this summer.

seven11dmd · Posted: May 03, 2004 10:34 am Post subject:

dude just live on a lake that cools a nuclear power plant like i do....the water has been 80 all through april and in the summer gets to about 95....haha

minus_gravity · Pop Shuvit Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 205 City: Dalton

seven11dmd, are you sterile from swimmin in that water??

seven11dmd · Posted: May 03, 2004 3:15 pm Post subject:

minus_gravity, hahaha the 3 eyed fish are great.....yeah its perfectly safe, it doesnt have like shizzle in it or anything, its just used to cool the reactor i think....i dunno its perfectly safe though, its a big lake and many people live on it

xboard32x · Posted: May 03, 2004 6:00 pm Post subject:

blinky from the simpsons that three eyed fish.

WCR · Pop Shuvit Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Posts: 160 City: K*Town

i was wakeboarding in Crazy Eyes

CANADA

i just shorts and a jursy

dock start fo sho

sk8ordie · Faceplant Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 3 City: Northwood

does a wetsuit keep you totally dry

Dave Barousse · Faceplant Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 5

wakeriderof87 · Frontside 180 Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 495 City: cen fla

hence the name wetsuit Laughing

Philthy · Faceplant Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 1

Well back to the posters original question, just go to your local boardshop and see what they have, they should be able to tell you all about them. Depending on where you live too, lots of times in the spring board shops will have good prices on full suits because they are looking to clear some out to get the spring suits in for summer.

You can probably get a decent 3/2 full suit for like 100 bucks. or you could pay up to 350 for a 4/3 super taped, double stitched, feels like a jacuzzi in freezing water wet suit.

And for all the tough guys who just jump in the cold water, you guys can have your shrinkage and shivver on the boat all day, i'll think you are tuff, meanwhile i'll wear a full suit and be comfortable and warm.

Dutch · Faceplant Joined: 10 May 2004 Posts: 1 City: Lansing

I just picked up a Rip Curl Elasto full suit 2 weeks ago. It's a 3/2 and when I rode this past weekend, I was so toasty warm and comfortable. I like the Elasto suits cause they tend to be a stretchier material than non-elastos. I'm really happy with mine. I rode in a Body Glove shorty too, but it wasn't near as comfortable as the Rip Curl.
I was frig'n cold in the shorty though. I don't have enough "natural insulation" as my friends who trunked it.

WCR · Pop Shuvit Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Posts: 160 City: K*Town

DRY SUIT

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