Posts by Dan

Torture, pure torture also pulls the bands out of alignment.

To suggest the right size footpockets You'll need to provide your actual foot measurement. Put a ruler against the wall and stand on it with your heel against the wall, measure where the furthest toe ends. Also measure the width of your foot at the widest part.

The Leader fins carbon blades soft is very soft, but that's not bad in itself, it has no snap. Leader fin footpocket tendons are also very soft, and so is the sole. You can fold/roll up the whole footpocket and put it in your pant pocket.

Hi Justin,

It's unlikely you'll get another opinion on these footpockets, they're relatively new and few people are using them.

The shape of the new Cressi Gara modular footpockets have nothing to do with the old gara plastic fin footpockets, nor with the LD Professional (which are a POS IMO, footpocket under the blade is a bad gimmick). The Gara modular are comfortable, but suitable for a narrow foot only. The tendons have good moderate stiffness, the sole is stiff for good energy transfer.

The special fin blades will fit.

omer Stingray foot pockets have stiff tendons. They probably bump up the stiffness of your soft blades quite a bit. I'm sure you'll notice a difference switching to the Garas, with the fin becoming softer. I'm not familiar with special fins, but IF their soft is anything like Leader fins soft, then the blades need a foot pocket with stiff tendons. BTW Kevlar is an unnecessary gimmick, the colors look nice that's about it. The purpose of Kevlar is to dissipate energy, not the best material for a fin. Consequently Kevlar fins are slower than carbon, which defeats the purpose.

Don't worry about the angle, it will work.

If adjustment is necessary, it's easy to do. The blade can be shaped with a belt sander without negatively affecting its durability.

Welcome to the forum Jeremy.

What a landscape..

Interesting pic the first one, what's that platform in the background and why the fish let you get so close? Is that you in the other two pics? What kind of fish in the last pic?

Great thread and pics.

To the Aussie spearos in the forum, anyone has a nice pic to be used for the forum section thumbnail? See the other section thumbnails for the kind of picture that's suitable. It's best if the fish is clearly a local species.

kmo, beautiful fish.

What kind of prong is that? Looks to have more prongs than what we're used to seeing here. Why do you use it instead of a flopper shaft on a large fish like that?

Great pic Frank. Couldn't help messing with it I love the sharpen command in PS. I saw the beach cam today and it looked flat out there.

There can be only one!

Everyone else

It depends on whether the fighter has the physical tools. If he were not able to affect the opponent, the fighter would get discouraged. It always depends on the opponent. That's why it's always shocking when a seemingly unbeatable fighter is defeated by another with a different set of skills. There have been very few "universal" type fighters. One of them I think is Fedor. I wonder how Fedor in his prime would've done against Cain.

Congratz on your countrymans win monster. It was a great fight. Nothing fancy or too technical, but unrelenting pressure from Cain, and a lot of heart from both men.

Welcome to the forum Bill.

The winner is Hookinfish. Congratz and pm me your address.

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Thank you Charlie (he's a doctor).

Never mind, it's a tracking device. Makes me wonder if it can cause problems for the manatee, getting caught up in logs or something.

Was a manatee entangled with a buoy?