Education, Recreational

How do you put on your wetsuit?

This might seem to be a simple enough thing to answer, and you might be wondering, “doesn’t everyone know this already?”

However, you’d be surprised how often I see people having trouble wearing their wetsuit.

Either punching themselves in the face or turning red from the exertion of getting their wetsuit on.

In fact, there’s a common saying that wearing your wetsuit is the most tiring part of going diving!

Let me try to dispel this myth by giving you a method of wearing a wetsuit that I’ve found to be super easy and useful.

I’ve always found that people miss one very vital and critical step in putting on their wetsuit.

Sure, there’s a lot of pulling still, but immediately after the pull, most of the time the lower part of wetsuit is resting on top of the upper part of your wetsuit, which is exactly the part that you’re going to be pulling up next.

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This makes it that much harder to pull up the second part of the wetsuit because the lower portion is pressing down on it and making it tighter.

Once you realise this, then the cool trick is to fold down the wetsuit immediately after you’ve pulled it up.

This brings the upper part of the wetsuit OVER the lower portion, and when you do pull this section up, it’s going to just slide over itself, making it really really easy to pull it up.

Rinse and repeat these steps and soon you’ll have your wetsuit nice and snug!

Have a look at this video to get the full idea.