This isn't fair

[andygates]

Look, I'm not saying that I'm a surfer dude or anything, but that's two nights in a row that I've not been able to get to sleep because I've been itching to feel that catching-a-wave feeling again. And bad itching too, the kind you get just after a new girlfriend has to go home. Anxious and melancholy. That's not right. It will pass, right?

I do not need a surfboard. I do not need a surfboard.

Comments

[justoneway.livejournal.com]

Warmth comes from thickness (mine is a 4-5-6 and it is fine in summer and good in winter when backed up with a hooded neoprene rash vest, gloves and boots). Also from tightness. It needs to be snug all over but not to the point of pinching.
Flexibility is what you pay for. Most important area where you need it is around the shoulders. A flexible suit stays snug even when you are moving, so no pools of cold water forming in the gaps.
I am sure you can now see the obvious compromises. Warmth = thickness = less flexibility = more cold runs. It all gets a bit circular. My theory is, that the thicker the suit, the more it justifies paying upper end prices, rather than getting a "warm" suit that turns out not to be because it does not have the flexibility to stay snug.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Righto, so pretty much the same as for other flavours of wetsuit. I shall trawl the shops, 'cos my tri suit is WAY too slippery!