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    Posted: 08 Jan 06 at 8:34pm
With good flexibility and with some practise and technique i'm sure you can do it yourself.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote *GM* Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 Jan 06 at 8:35pm

Always used to be able to do the back zip on my old suit on my own.  That's what happens when youur knuckles drag on the ground...

Neoprene is indeed waterproof but neoprene seals don't fit as tightly as latex ones.  I've been using a neoprene suit and can vouch for the wrist and ankle seal being unpleasantly less than watertight - paled into insignificance once I managed to put a two inch rip in to it though...

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Originally posted by Prince Buster

With good flexibility and with some practise and technique i'm sure you can do it yourself.

That I would like to see!

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I could do the back zip on my old drysuit myself but usualy ended up straining a muscle or something in the process
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I can barely get in or out my front zipped dry suit without pulling a muscle or getting stuck and feeling claustraphobic! So maybe I'm not the best person to help.

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Im never gonna be able to see you again without the image of you stuck halfway in a drysuit wimperning about small enclosed spaces...
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If you get it wrong, that's it, your stuck in a straight jacket!
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Originally posted by Strawberry

Originally posted by Prince Buster

With good flexibility and with some practise and technique i'm sure you can do it yourself.

That I would like to see!



I don't wear a drysuit any more.
But i'd show you how to get out of a back zip one with some slick techniques if i ever saw u.
 
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doing that is easy its not esaky hard
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Prince Buster Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 Jan 06 at 5:32pm
Originally posted by 5420

doing that is easy its not esaky hard


Yeah that's kind of the point i'm making.
 
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