Slowman wrote:
ggeiger wrote:
Slowman wrote:
as has been noted, it's not new for roka, and it's not even close to new for tri wetsuits. de soto started it. if what you want is absolutely, positively, the easiest wetsuit to get on and off, to swim in, it's the de soto. but the de soto is 2 pieces and some people can't wrap their brains around that. which i understand.
roka is a great wetsuit. de soto is the most forgiving wetsuit. do you need forgiveness, gary? the older you get, the more forgiveness you need.
Dan, I'm so old I can't remember what I need forgiveness for! ;-)
From the ROKA site:
"The revolutionary Arms-Up construction liberated athletes to swim without restriction in a way no other triathlon wetsuit on the planet could.
Never satisfied, we diffused the technologies of the Maverick X to the rest of our patented Maverick Wetsuit collection. The new Maverick Pro II and Maverick Elite II now feature the Arms Up construction originally designed for the Maverick X."
I'm currently in an Aquaman Cell Gold and love it, but this seems interesting. In forgiveness, do you mean shoulder flexibility? It's very hard to imagine a suit more flexible than the cell gold.
what i mean by forgiving is:
1. very easy to get it to fit, still pretty easy to get it to fit if your body changes
2. very easy to get on and off
3. very easy to swim in
this has always been my view of 2 piece. if you just consider who ought to be in a product (just based on best match) probably a third of the triathlon population ought to be in 2 piece.
Ok, thanks. Fortunately my body has changed little over the years, thanks to the sport! In the past, the varying manufacturers fit differently, so purchase was often based on that. That's why I always ended up in the Aquaman line, as it fit me very well. With the lack of brick and mortar stores carrying full lines anymore, it's very difficult to try them on, and even so, dry in a store is different than in the water. I have never tried Desoto, even though I always stopped by to see Emilio when in the area in past years.
As my suit is getting a bit more torn and patched, and always looking for a little more speed (or less decline!), and the fact that my team has a promotion with Roka, I was simply looking at them and wondering if that feeling actually works well. I have to say that my current suit, with the internal liner, is exceptionally comfortable and easy to get off now that I trimmed the legs a bit (Thanks STConcierge!). Maybe I'm talking myself into something I don't really need......