Been thinking of buying a Blue Seventy PointZero for my first IM Hawaii.
Is it worth it compared to a regular tri-suit? Will it make me faster? I am a 1.01 swimmer with wetsuit.
What about Zoots **Ultra SpeedZoot** or ORCAs** Killa Trisuit or 2XU Super Elite TriSuit or DeSoto`s Liftfoil?**
My plan is to wear trishorts and topp under the suit. Want to race bike and run in 2 piece.
What do I buy??
We tried a few different speed suits in Thailand last year inluding the Blue Seventy. I can highly recommend that suit. It is beautifully made and feels very slippery in the water. The fit is very trim and close. My wife has one and loves it. I would like to have a specific idea of how fast these suits may be but my sense isthey do make a difference. In any event, the Blue 70 is the nicest of the ones I’ve seen in person.
If you physically examine the product, I suspect you will notice 2XU has an engineering edge and feels better on your body. Give their line a tri - both their wetsuit and expecially their tri-suit.
I’d note that if you are wearing it UNDER the wetsuit, there is no point to try the Orca Killa. It has no chami in the seat and is optimized for swiming - irrelevant if you are wearing it under a wetsuit.
Hey Espen, I’m going to be there for my first Kona race as well. I have the Ultra SpeedZoot, just like the one Stadler wore last year. I am 1:00 flat IM wet suit swimmer, too. I have trained a few times in it and did an Olympic race wearing it. It certainly is not as fast as a wet suit, but does give just a hint of bouyancy and the material is very slick, so I am going to wear it on the swim over my one piece tri-suit.
Having just returned from Kona, I would recommend a good mask and snorkel to look at all the pretty fish, and some shark repellant for the big tiger sharks we saw very close to shore…
Hope that hepps.
Hi,
Normann wore the pointzero3 swim skin in 2006. Please check blueseventy.com for the photo.
As the pointzero3 is made almost entirely of a fabric called modetech II S98 (effectively compressed rubber) it is unrivalled in the swim skin market. Why? It has the lowest coefficient of friction of any swim skin out there and as we (blueseventy) only make swim specific garments (unlike most brands offering an alternative) we do not need to be concerned with how the garment performs when upright. Essentially we focus on how the garment swims and built the pointzero3 purely with this in mind. This has allowed us to ignore how seam lines might perform when biking and running and allowed us to focus on constructing a garment that swims well and works with the swimmer to help facilitate a good ecomomical swim stroke.
Hope that helps.
Ben Bigglestone
blueseventy
The fit is very trim and close. My wife has one and loves it.
That just screams for a pic, Tom. 
Personally I have found most of the high end skinsuits to perform similarly in the water.
What is nice about the 2XU Super Elite is that you can wear it in sprint races next season as well, since it is very comfortable and breathable for the bike and run.
If I were to spend $200+ on a suit, its nice to know I will get some use out of it.
chris
www.2XU.com
I had a good swim in my Killa last year.
paw
You may want to include the Tyr product in your selection as well. My Tyr sponsored teammates had good swim times last year at Kona. Looked like a 1+ min advantage over my old Orca skinsuit.
I will be wearing the Point Zero 3 - for all the reasons Ben listed and because it fits so well.
A little late, but I loved your Austria RR, Espen. Best of luck at Kona!
How about wearing the Super Elite for the whole race?
I’m currently leaning towards doing this one in a swimsuit but that’s gonna suck on the bike so would love to find something with “legs” and a bit of a chamois that wasn’t going to cost me time on the swim or in transition.
When I look at the Super Elite, it seems very nicely made but it’s black and looks quite heavy. OTOH, I see a lot of ITU racers wearing them for huge efforts in the heat. Anyone done a hot IM in one of these? Can you comment on how well it breathes?