Ep139 - Andrew Sayre (safety)

Thank you for the report. A couple of follow up questions. For sizing purposes, what’s your height and weight (waist and chest size)? Would you wear this in Hawaii (water temp of 81 degrees)? Is it really absorbent, so that it weighs a lot when it’s wet? Safe foiling.

Sizing: I went by the sizing on the manufacturer site
170cm
68kg
Chest 95-97cm/37_37.5
Waist 84cm/34.5
Hip 93cm/36

It’s neither hot not cold.
It’s like bareskin but with expected sun protection, how much I don’t know. I wore similar socks for 2 weeks 6h/day, X2 weeks, foiling in Colombia and feet didn’t tan/burn.

It’s Dyneema & Lycra mix. So it mostly doesn’t absorb water. I wore it for 4h under my 6mm suit, so can’t really tell as it came out mostly dry. I don’t expect it to absorb/weight much when wet.

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From their site, for my size.
They have a calculator.

Small is slim fit, I didn’t want it to ride up when using without wetsuit. I bought small.
Medium is regular fit
Large is loose fit

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More Sayres pushing the limits in water sports! Dangerous name in water sports.

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Shit! Nevin is an old friend of mine

Last time I saw him he was telling me the story of the gnarly scar on his forehead from another kiting accident where he nearly died… Glad he’s okay

Yeah, I was a hard-core wave kiter for about 10 years. The last time I had a kite in my hands, it scared the shit out of me. All the power and that crazy input delay… Foiling has absolutely nothing on kiting!

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