A New Year means a new time to treat your body right. While a wetsuit will show off those curves and inspire you to get fit. There are other ways to show off as well. In the case of Body Glove you can add some custom colors to your own wetsuit. These feature seven panels, which can be customized with 11 colors and three graphics meaning there are endless combinations. Continue reading Custom Your Body (Glove)
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Body Glove Goes Tech for 60th
This year Body Glove celebrates its sixtieth anniversary. To celebrate, it released the 60 Year Anniversary Prime Slant Zip wetsuit. The celebrated suit uses a number of innovations to advance the wetsuit used by many surfers over the years.
The newly-created suit features advanced pyrostretch insulation, and is made with a high-performance super stretch EVOflex composite material that is 25 percent lighter than comparable materials currently on the market. The Prime Slant Zip suit also offers Nano Tritec kneepads, and vaporlock seams that create a 100 percent fluid seal. Of course the suit features the EZ-Entry slant zip that makes it possible for the wearer to zip up the wetsuit.
Find out more about the sixtieth anniversary of Blody Glove.
Anti Shark Suit
Despite what movies such as Jaws or Discovery Channel’s Shark Week might suggest, shark attacks are actually not all that common. However, about 100 people are attacked by sharks each year and this isn’t all that comforting to surfers and divers.
Researchers have suggested that black wetsuits could make wearers look like seals, which just happen to be a shark’s favorite snack. Australian based Shark Attack Mitigation Systems (SAMS) has developed a line of wetsuits that are designed to look a little less appetizing to sharks. These feature a disruptive pattern that sharks may have trouble seeing, or even make them think otherwise about taking a bite.
While sharks can reportedly detect small amounts of blood in the water from miles away and can detect electric currents in the water for the kill – or rather bite – the shark depends on vision. This is where the SAMS suit comes in as it could provide enough to confuse the shark, and give the wearer time not to be the catch of the day. Video after the jump
Body Glove is All Wet for Fall 2012
With heavy raining hitting much of the east coast this week it is hard to think of anything except wanting to stay dry, but Body Glove has announced its new lineup of wet suits. These include four new models including the PRIME, Vapor, CT and Legends. Continue reading Body Glove is All Wet for Fall 2012
Wet Suits To Change for 2013
Thin is in, especially for many tri-athletes. After all that swimming, cycling and running you’re sure to burn some calories. But come 2013 another type of thin will be in, as in the rules. Beginning in 2013 the thickness of wet suits will be the name of the game. The USA Triathlon announced that beginning on “January 1, 2013 swimmers wearing a wetsuit with a thickness measured in any part greater than five millimeters shall be disqualified.”
Thus those greater than the thickness will not be permitted at USAT-sanctioned events. According to the press release:
“Our board has been considering this issue and the impact it might have with our athletes for some time,” said USA Triathlon CEO Skip Gilbert. “The overall feeling is that it makes perfect sense to align with the guidelines set by our international federation and multisport enthusiasts around the world. This is a standard that is good for the athlete community and our sport overall.”
So what does this mean? Well, nothing more than the USAT will be in line with the international standard of five millimeters, which is already recognized by the International Triathlon Union (ITU) and other National Governing Bodies. Fortunately as many suits are currently greater in thickness, there will be a grace period as these suits are phased out.
[Via Competitor.com: USA Triathlon Adopts New Wetsuit Regulation Starting In 2013]