How To Pick A Wet Suit

In this video, we're going to talk through how to pick a wet suit. Okay. So, first things first, obviously, you get male wet suits, you get female wet suits, okay? So, when you go to a surf shop or you look in the internet to buy a wet suit, obviously, click on male/ female wet suits and they're going to give you a good list on the internet of makes and thicknesses of wet suits.

Now, when you go to a surf shop, they're going to talk through everything that I'm going to talk through now. They're going to give you good advice. So, when you go into a surf shop, the first thing they're going to ask you is "Are you going to surf all year?" They're going to ask you that question because if you're going to surf all year, you're going to get a thicker wet suit.

Now, a 5 mm wet suit for the UK winter, it's going to keep you warm, but in the summer, it's going to be too warm. So, you're going to look to buy yourself 3 mm wet suit for the summer. Now, in the winter, a 5 mm wet suit is going to set you back, anywhere from 150 to 250 quid.

Now, that is purely down to what make you go for. So, you can get a cheaper brand and it could cost you about 150 quid, or if you could go for the more high-end brands, like Quiksilver, Billabong, Rip Curl, that's going to go to about 250 pounds. With these summer suits, 3 mm wet suits, obviously, because it's thinner, it's going to be cheaper.

So, for good summer wet suit, you're going to look to pay anywhere between 70 pounds to 150 pounds. So, size-wise, okay, wet suits come in all different sizes for obvious reasons. So, when you go into a shop, obviously, you've got small, medium, large, but then you've got medium-tall, medium-short.

When you buy a wet suit, you really don't want it to be baggy. You want it to fit you nice and snug. Being nice and snug is going to keep you the hottest that it possibly can.

When it's all baggy, all the water flushes through your wet suit and it just keeps you really cold. So, you want to get a wet suit which fits you nice and snug. Now, when you go into a surf shop, they're going to give you all this advice.

You can actually try on wet suits. Maybe it's a bit tight, and they're going to give a different size that's going to fit you nice and snug. Now, when you go and buy one in the internet, you don't have the luxury of doing that.

Some people go into a surf shop, try on the wet suit they want to buy. So, say, if they're going to a surf shop, they want to buy a Quiksilver wet suit, they go in, try on the wet suits, find the one that they want, find the size that they are, then they go home, buy them on the internet, job done. But, I would always suggest that you go and support a local surf shop because they're going to give you good advice on your boards, your wet suits, and if anything goes wrong, you go back, you give your wet suit back, they send it away and you get a new wet suit.

Now, when you buy in the internet, sometimes, you don't get the luxury of having that one-to-one service. So, in essence, I would say go to a surf shop, get sized-up, buy it on the internet if that's what you want to do, but go to your local surf shop, they're going to give you good advice on what thickness, size of wet suit you need and they're going to give you all different prices and they'll have all the different brands. So, that, in essence, is how to pick a wet suit. .