The GUE team is very grateful for the awesome feedback :)

What does she do down below 😂

o...k.

Exactly. The problem is the diver, not the fins.

Hey Aaron, glad you like it. And your questions is a good one because diving the old-good jet fins (especially these that were still produced in the US) in a wetsuit is quite a challenge for lower back muscles as they are really negatively buoyant, and not the nicest to dive in a wetsuit. I can talk about the OMS slipstreams, as I know them and use them when diving in a thin wetsuit or a rashguard only - and so, I think they a good option for the warmer water, wetsuit dives. But would really advise against them when diving a drysuit, unless someone has really really really heavy legs.

hey there, Vitriolo - thank you very much for the comments and suggestions. Glad you like the video :)) My intention for this video was not a general comparison of all fins features - there could be added more, and surely the Straps vs Springs could be another VS Monday. For me, some comparisons would be hard to make, as I do not have enough experience with using certain types of gear - like your example of using freediving fins for scuba diving (apart from one dive when I needed to use them as I forgot my own fins and those have been the only possible ones). I used freediving fins but for freediving, and my personal opinion is that they are great for freediving, but not so practical for scuba diving, even though I have seen many guides using those.

You also have lighter stiff fins such as the SharkFin from Sweden which Nico reviewed on the channel, and the new Fourth Element Tech Fins which are much lighter as well

Hi Brian, at the risk of GUE being perceived as endorsing a particular brand, most GUE divers , if not all prefer ScubaPro Jetfins. There are other fins just as good, constructed from different materials like the OMS Slipstream, Apeks RK3 (HD) fins - the HD being the stiffer model. Dive-rite XT fins and the Hollis F1. I'm sure there are others out there, but these brands come to mind for now.

@@meandtina thanks 👍

@@meandtina thank you for this - and I agree with your answer completely. I could mention as well ScubaTech fins - but generally, all fins that are rigid, relatively stiff, short(ish), non-split, and rather heavy (gue to use with a drysuit) would work.

interesting to hear it as ive got the mares quatrro plus and looking at rk3s today hopefully

Marcus, yes indeed. I use the OMS Slipstreams for wetsuit, too ;) Not too often thou, as I still prefer to dive my drysuit everywhere I can :)))))

@@dorotaczerny7496 slipstream yes.. thank you for remember me..I forget the name of this model...of course only for the wetsuit...:)

hey there, thanks and as for your questions - GUE uses light as a form of communication - especially in certain environments where it not only easier but as well necessary. Light is in a way extension of your arm, so if you can not touch a person you can communicate over distance with light. But not ALL dives would require to have a light, but to be honest, if you get used to using it as a communication tool, it is very hard not to dive with it - it feels like someone muted your voice. I may be doing a video on light communication soon, so there may be a bit more details being added. So stay tuned here and on GUEtv :)

@@dorotaczerny7496 I'd add that in poor vis it's an excellent location tool in case you get separated from your buddy or leader, or indeed followers.

hey there, thanks for the feedback ) and will try to do less repetition and potentially design the videos differently :) (thou certain type of repetition was on purpose). The video was not designed to talk about trim/balance aspects and just be a comparison of these two types. There are certainly other ways of making these comparisons and I know I could have done some things differently (and touch on different perspectives of the same topics), but alas... practice makes a master, right :) ?

Hi Mark, Given your recent injury, we are apprehensive to recommend a fin in particular at the risk that it may worsen your injury. Best suggestion would be to borrow fins from a friend and see if they are hurting you before investing in anything. We swear by either the ScubaPro Jet Fins, the Shark Fins, or the OMS Slipstream, but these may not be appropriate given the injury you sustained.

Mark, you may want to check out Truefin. Very easy kicking if you kick slow, but power if kicked fast. Info at truefintechnical.com

Enjoy ;)

yes, I am located in Dubai currently and so the recordings are done here for now

@@dorotaczerny7496 great me too

@@DubaiDiver yeah, I have seen in from your FB profile. So maybe we will see each other someday on a dive or an event :)))

it was 6V not D :)) need to work on clearer pronunciation apparently :)))))

@@dorotaczerny7496 thanks might be my hearing can you explain more about the 6V engine thanks

@@DubaiDiver just driving a BIG car with BIG engine comparison... where the HP allows for good acceleration And here in Dubai, you should know very well how those cars drive :)))

@@dorotaczerny7496 thanks got it now btw i drive a hybrid 🙏

@@DubaiDiver great on the hybrid :) If I buy a car for myself I will aim to get a fully electric one... let us see what the options would by by then :))

so.... this video was made for DIVING not SWIMMING. Free Diving fins, for the purpose of the diving we do in places like wrecks and caves would be of no use. That's they didn't factor into this conversation

@@GUEdivers Thanks for the reply. Using more air and being less efficient MIGHT be at least mentioned when you are talking about recreational diving. Why use an admittedly less efficient fin that wastes air for a recreational dive?

Tell them! It took me 2 years after watching this video to learn showering works better without a drysuit and stiff rubber fins.

umm... would you care to elaborate?

@@GUEdivers Let’s skip the fact that she repeats the same points over and over and over. Throughout the video, she makes it very clear her central thesis is “soft fins are bad, stiff fins are good, but only these stiff fins, so everyone else is wrong, and GUE divers are right.” Of course, she doesn’t outright say this, but it is indeed the implied message. The fact is, she’s wrong. She starts by telling a story about how she used to love the Mares Avanti Quattro’s, but one experience on a wreck dive where she touched the sides and all of a sudden she’s questioning her fin selection. Later she goes on to make a point that in order to fix her “problem”, she had to change to shorter, wider, heavier rubber fins. The correct answer would have been she needed to work on improving her skills and awareness, but nooo... No the fins were definitely the problem. 🤦🏼‍♂️ Then she talks about cave divers. My God. Cave divers have been using those same softer Avanti Quattro’s for decades without issue or complaint, and if ANYONE needs to worry about touching things, it’s cavers. She even makes a highly false claim that heavier fins are necessary for drysuit diving. At this point it’s either a complete lack of actual skill development that led her to believe that, or a lack of knowledge (as in her GUE instructor told her so she believed it without question), or both and she’s brainwashed into a cult mentality. The simple fact is, any fin can be used in a drysuit without issue. It’s the diver that needs to improve their skills. At the end of the day, those softer fins that she’s very subtly trying to lecture to everyone are “bad” have been used the world over by some of the best divers on the planet, and those stiffer, heavier fins she’s trying to imply are better, are not always “better”. I’ve been using heavy rubber fins for decades myself. I was issued jets and rocket fins 20 years ago in school, and today, use a combination of stiff rubber and softer Quattro’s, because both are just as good. What you WANT is a fin that’s neutral in the water, and there’s plenty of great choices out there for that. All those heavy fins are good for is weighing you down and tiring you out for zero good reason. Oh, and if your head heavy, as she claimed at some point, changing fins are not the answer. Learn to fix your trim and lower your weight down further. Problem solved.

@@pinnacledivingco well you certainly seem to have your opinions. But now the question is, why are yours more valid than hers? Dorota was speaking from personal honest experience, and recounts how the particular solution happened to work for her. At the end of the day, all we can ask people is to share their honest feedback and first hand experience of what worked for them. In a calm, open discussion topic, slandering people with words like "cultish" only diminishes your point of view and possibly portrays you in the wrong light. To question the skill and experience of someone as widely known and as experienced in the industry as Dorota is... that rally does make you come off as unfortunately misinformed. There's no cult here, just opinions and experiences and we stand by ours and of course welcome yours.

@@GUEdivers It seems you missed the point. She isn’t expressing what she is saying as “opinion” here in this video. She’s making “statements of fact”. She’s presenting her side as if it were fact, not merely opinion or what worked for her in her case. The underlying message is “This is ‘right’ and other ways are ‘wrong’.” She made a claim that touching the side of a wreck meant she had the “wrong” fins for the job, yet this is highly fallacious. We know this to be false as tons of highly experienced technical divers use all sorts of the very fins she said were wrong for some of the most challenging dives possible. She claimed a heavy fin was necessary for drysuit use. Also wrong. Any fin can be used in a drysuit so long as the diver has the skill to maintain the trim necessary to use them. She claimed heavy fins were necessary to adjust for trim. Also wrong. I could go on, but the point is, if she was simply stating “this was my experience and what worked for me”, we wouldn’t be having this conversation, as this would be a different story. But that’s not what’s happening here at all. Instead, what’s happening is a soft approach to implying “It’s a fact that stiff heavy rubber fins are better. All GUE divers use them. Therefore, the GUE way is the best way.” That’s the underlying message here, and it’s cleverly hidden in a “pros and cons” approach to presenting it. The reality is, in her story of how she came to think this way, at the time of those events, she could have simply learned how to control herself and her fins better, and she would have ended up not touching anything. The logic that the fins were the wrong type of fins for the job is fallacious. They weren’t, it was the diver’s inability to perform at that time that was at fault. And further, to suggest that she now, today, is somehow above reproach or criticism for presenting opinions as subtle fact is also fallacious.

@@pinnacledivingco well, we did edit the video, so it would be a bit weird if we were "missing the point". At no point did we say Dorota was beyond reproach, what we said was that you shouldn't question her skill level so aggressively, which you have done repeatedly, and we can only put this down to your lack of familiarity with her. She is highly skilled and has amassed more dives than most do in their lifetimes. It's very normal that someone who is this experienced has a very informed opinion, and that's what this video is. Not entirely sure what previous experiences you have had, but you seem to be trying to create this "us vs them" narrative which I'm afraid simply doesn't exsit.. If soft fins work for others and yourself, fantastic! We choose to to dive with hard fins. Don't think we're doing anyone any harm here. :)