While I slowly break in my new Lunocet monofin, it becomes apparent that this is just scraping at the surface of its potential. Sure one can swim for speed - but I would suggest to swim for style and motion, and for pure fun. Butterfly style obviously works but really, there is no conventional swimming style that matches the beauty of this perfect water toy. So I decided to freestyle it (in the pure sense of the word) playing with stroke rates and angles. Trying two or three kicks for one fly arm stroke seems to work well to balance fast cruising and comfortable water jumping. I found that doing rather steep dive downs after the arm stroke, then coming up slowly for a flat surface posture before then doing the next arm stroke, may be a good way to enjoy the wicked dynamics of these kicks and to also get fun out of acceleration and deceleration. One can vary kick rate and double or triple them underwater before going half rate when surfacing - adding relatively fast underwater speed to great wave surface splashing. With these SIDI bike shoes that I wear on them, swimming extended kick sessions remains super comfortable. But I have to admit that just over 10 minutes of mild butterfly cruising forces these Lunocet to really sustain a bit of wreckage as I already lost one screw that didn't survive this. Luckily these are normed M6 threaded 16mm screws. At any rate, the forces that are applied must be rather large. But then, even without fins I manage to kick in a way that makes my great toe go numb already after 40 meters ; ) and that's just because circulation is pressed out. So if you have spare kick power, why not try one of these. If you were looking for a really fast and elegant fly style open water cruising toy, this is for you. The video style here is the one used also for "whale watching" - avoiding all close up or macro, avoiding detailed underwater sequences, this gives an overall idea of the type of wide circled fun one can have with such equipment.
VIDEO: Soundtrack "Float Up To The Moon" (Album Version) (Arambol Experience) - Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3. BIKE SHOES / MOUNTING EQUIPMENT - Thanks to everyone at Sportplausch Wider in Wallisellen ZH, at Hallenbad Oerlikon, Zuerich and all swim team mates for great support. BACKGROUND - I swim since I am a kid. I played waterpolo, did lots of sports elsewhere and since really quite a while also train as championship / masters swimmer. I regularly train butterfly as well as other strokes; my longest butterfly training so far was a 2,1 km set that I swam together with a friend on an otherwise uneventful Sunday in summer 2011. So what you see here might well be a side effect of having too much fun as a slowly aging water sports aficionado - but by all means do not try to swim that much fly in one stretch, or, get into trouble with swimming equipment that you don't know how to handle. If you are not well skilled this can be dangerous in a whole range of ways.
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Mikko Pöntinen DYN 220mby SunkenlogV15,075 views
Toll, dass man den Zürichsee für sowas mieten kann!
...und ein stimmiges Video :-) susanne
rhabdomyspumilio 7 months ago