Ive seen a few people recently asking about what silicone "neoprene" tails are like.
Ive got some images of the inside of a very recent one. Out of all the things wrong with this tail, the monofin is what horrifies me. Take a look:
Because the stupid holes are WAY to large and so close together in the middle, thats where it bends back, making the downward stroke while swimming ineffective. This is what happened to it after 4 swims (one of which was an underwater shoot and I did very little swimming)
See how bent back it is? How is that supposed to last? Im very surprised that didnt snap. The tail is neoprin and like a sponge, making the bending worse.
the ridges of the monofin were cut and NOT sanded down, leaving 90 degree corners and tearing the fluke from the inside out.
what does emailing mertailor accomplish? Nothing. I just sent off email #4 in the last two weeks. It took me posting on here before I got an answer last time I origionally brought up this and many other issues.
in the first set of emails He just keeps saying how pretty it is. Who cares? If it doesnt swim, why own it? Because he placed in crookedly inside the fluke it constantly pulled to one side. Making it very difficult to do anything in the water and thats dangerous. Im still getting the hang of this video editing/uploading to youtube thing, but I have a video MerMatt took and you can see the fluke folds almost in half when I put any force onto it.
I am not finished dealing with the mertailor but when I am I will post a full review of it. This issue is just the absolute largest. And I can finally be helpful by answering a couple questions a few mers had about this particular type of tail.
lovely isnt it?
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