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| HOW TO FIT FULL FOOT SNORKELING FINS - VIDEO & TRANSCRIPT |
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VIDEO - HOW TO FIT FULL FOOT SNORKELING FINS
This video answers one of the most common questions we receive, "How to Fit Full Foot Snorkeling Fins". We give you tips on what to look for when trying on a closed heel fin which is also known as a full foot fins. This is just another way that we, at SnorkelingOnline.com, are helping you to become a more educated consumer. Purchase full foot fins: Cressi Pluma Snorkel Fins, Oceanic Viper Fins or Oceanic V6 Fins.
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HOW TO FIT FULL FOOT SNORKELING FINS - VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:
A customer, Casey, called us the other day and asked us how to fit a full foot snorkeling fin. Well, that's what I'm going to show you today.
When you first purchase a snorkeling fin, a full foot fin or another one, it may or may not have a piece of plastic or something in here. This is just a form keeper. My suggestion is to throw this out once you have it because if you don't, you're going to put the fin on with this in it and you'll wonder why your feet hurt, so (toss) it's away.
Getting into the snorkeling fin, what you can do is you can actually roll the heel, so it's inside out. And this goes for almost all of the full foot fins, okay? So I rolled it inside out. I simply place it on the ground, step on the blade, kick into it so that you're pretty far in, and then all I have to simply do is to click the heel up.
Now, to see if the snorkeling fin fits, basically you can feel it right in here. If it's pushing really, really tight on the knuckle part of your feet right in here, then you may have a problem. Now when you're standing on the fin, you may have a little bit of pressure but that's not how you're going to be using the fins. Once you're in the water, you'll be in this position here so the pressure will be released on the side.
Now, I'm leaning onto a table or a chair just to make sure that everything's okay and I don't fall. What you can also check for fit is by wiggling this back and forth and if you feel a lot of play or open space when you're wiggling it, the fin may be too loose.
Another way to check is try to step out of the snorkeling fin, just like you're taking a step forward and basically if you do step out of the fin, it's going to come off on you in the water, so it's too big.
Now let's look at a snorkeling fin that's going to be one that actually fits me. And this goes for all of the fins as far as the full foot fins, not just the Oceanic V-6s that we have here. Simply kicked into it, flipped the heel up. I have it up behind me, not a lot of play. There's a little bit of pressure here, not too much. It's not unbearable. And what I'm going to do is try to step out of it. If you notice, I can't get out of it. That's how you check to see if a fin fits. Thank you, Casey.
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