Stung by Jelly Fish
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Anton posted 13 weeks ago.
Oh...the things we'll do for a woman's attention. ;) Pics please when it arrives...Pics of her too if you can get 'em!
Here, on the Chesapeake Bay it's nothing but jelly fish in the summer and early fall...We HOPE to get stung. It's one of the defining moments that makes you a true Marylander.
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Warrior posted 13 weeks ago.
Hey Anton, as far as I can tell it's a suit made of lycra, mine is costing 59 euros including mailing, From distance it looks like a full diving wetsuit, it has the gloves hood and booties or socks or whatever, up close, it's fairly trasnparent, picture if you will this siren taking a shower in it, or maybe better you don't picture that, .... genuinely I thought she was putting on a pair of nylons when I saw her first, apparently developed in australia it protects even against box jelly fish. The locals here reckon the amount of jelly is to do with the over fishing in Tuna.
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Warrior posted 13 weeks ago.
Stinger suit, apparently a new company, I am getting my from a company in the Var, the size pricing details are as follows
up to 170cm 60kg = S
180cm 80kg = M
190cm 90 kg = L
over 190cm120kg = XL
KIDS:
4-6 ans, 8-10 ans et 10-12 ans who serves also XS
price EU 49.00 plus cost for sending by mail (1 to 2 p. = EU 9.00, up from 2 à 10 p. EU 11.50)
as a guidline for you 180Cm is 6ft.
I am checking out with them which link they might want me to post! They are a bit of wierd bunch to deal with... but the product seems to stand up to the test. Will post the link when they let me know
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Warrior posted 13 weeks ago.
just realised I put posting details on their for the EU and that is little help to a lot of you.
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beads1985 posted 13 weeks ago.
That is pretty cool. Jelly fish stings are not cool. Does it cover your face as well?
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wannakona posted 13 weeks ago.
Is this it? http://www.stingersuits.com/
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Warrior posted 13 weeks ago.
Hey wannakona that is them,
They didn't want to give me any info or prices just kept referring me to there contact who is about 300 miles away from me. Luckily she was much more helpful and mine is in the post.
Sheer wouldn't be the right way to describe it, it's not as tight as a wetsuit, is very light, there is a full hood gloves and booties, what can I say it's a wet suit made from lycra, or if you like it a negligee for the sea.
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cayman posted 13 weeks ago.
Warrior wrote:
She gets out, and my nerves are no longer present, I nearly jump into her throat, hey miss is that some sort of anti sting suit?
great pick up line, I'll have to remember that.
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Warrior posted 13 weeks ago.
marianne.bodenmann AT orange.fr is her email addy if you guys are interested so is she, .......that's the suit seller as oppose to the suit wearer ok!
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Warrior posted 13 weeks ago.
All right it arrived, it's a sort of Nylon, actually I think I am going to look like a big cissy in it! But it still looks like a wetsuit......just a see through one.
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maggiemeans posted 13 weeks ago.
Warrior... pls post the update when you try it out.
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Warrior posted 12 weeks ago.
Okay folks I tried out the suit today. Since it arrived last Friday the jelly fish have been having a laugh and have upped and left. So I had no real reason to wear it. Today I said what the heck I am going to have to try it anyway.
There is a hood, gloves socks and full body suit with a zipper at the front. Putting in on I was pretty self concious. It really does look like Nylons.
I zipped it up and and put on the hood over my googles as instructed. Seriously I felt like I was in a sock.
I went into the water and put the gloves and socks on in the water, I was conscious of probably ripping it on the stones.
People were looking I was pretending the thought I was the most handsome person in the world. In I went. Water was about 25 C. Air temperature was over 30 C it was 12:30pm. I swam.
I swam better and truer than I had previously. There were two or three reasons. 1, the sea was unusually calm. 2) I was completely relaxed, no tension or looking around for supposed jelly fish, I just new I wasn't going to get stung so I could focus on my stroke. 3) the gloves. The gloves are Nylon mittens with a thumb. The act not as good as a paddle but have a similar effect, the catch motion of my hand was just a bit more effective with Nylon webbing between my fingers.
Personally I found the gloves uncomfortable and badly designed. the socks are probably too long as the suit came down the ankles and the socks were knee high.
I was warm but not uncomfortably so in the swim, I felt contained but not like wet suit contained either.
Siren woman happened to be in the water as I came back from my very relaxed and therefore easy swim, we chatted. She told me the day I had seen her with the suit, she had gone in without socks and gloves, she had got stung on both feet. She calm out again and put the socks on and went back in and purposely swam through groups of jelly fish gritting her teeth just in case the suit was a failure. No stinging. Hopefully the company will redesign the glove, but for the moment for the open water swim, in summer time, this is the best investment I have ever made. I don't have pics but when I get one will post it in my photos of my profile and let you guys know.
I got an email from the company in Australia telling me there U.S. price is about 80 dollars.
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jtrimom posted 12 weeks ago.
yay! you are on a chatting basis with her now--that was the whole point of getting the suit, right? Does this post have anything to do with your bonking question ;)
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TonisTri posted 12 weeks ago.
Warrior wrote:
People were looking I was pretending the thought I was the most handsome person in the world.
Warrior, I thought you were, in fact, the most handsome person in the world. I feel so misled now. ; )
And I thought you had a girlfriend or a wife...you better keep that friendship with the siren platonic or you'll have more than jellyfish to worry about ; )
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Warrior posted 12 weeks ago.
Woah there ladies, I am just giving the info on the suit and swimming on by.....................
But hey thanks for the ego massage :-)
TonisTri : I read that book and ate that stew in a previous life, it aint worth it. Yes I will keep my friendship with my Siren plastic................oops platonic.
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Warrior posted 11 weeks ago.
hey little update, the little wet beasts are back. Swam in a very languid sea today, after 600 meters got stung on my chin. I was pissed. Swam back to shore and got into my suit, and back into the sea. I swam the same line and beside being a bit panicky that I would get stung on the nose or mouth ( nothing else exposed) it was okay, finally I felt something bump my arm. I stopped and looked, and there he was the little beasterd. Pink flowing and all tentacles. It only registered after I saw him I should have an enormous sting on my forearm but nothing at all, It was like bumping a tennis ball in the water.. This suit has passed the test for me!
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jtrimom posted 11 weeks ago.
wow! I'll stay in the pool for now, and hope that when I do my races, any animals will be too scared of the crawds to bother me.
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cjhoffmn posted 11 weeks ago.
Ok.
So now I have a mental image that is a cross between a Dr. Suess Drawing (floppy socks), the really old German ninja character from the movie "the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," (mask over the face) and the creature from the black lagoon (webbed fingers).
Did I read this right? You pull this over your face? So its as if you have a full body nylon on? Do you look like a robber that's gone mad and run off into the sea to escape the police?
Well even if you do, if it worked to start the conversation with a Siren, *and* as a bonus keeps one from getting stung by jelly's I'm all for it.
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tri-ac posted 11 weeks ago.
nice to hear the suit does its job for $80
if it comes down to that, bonking the siren may require it's own report and thread, thank you very much
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Warrior posted 11 weeks ago.
tri-ac wrote:
nice to hear the suit does its job for $80
if it comes down to that, bonking the siren may require it's own report and thread, thank you very much
naw I will keep my glyogen levels up where she is concerned thanks :-)... I never kiss and tell anyway rotfl
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Sitting on the same beach watching the same woman for 4 years, for sure she does weights. She is perfect every muscle is defined. She is aloof. 4 years of trying to make contact to get advice about abs, hers are amazing, and nothing. I don't have the nerve, don't know what language she speaks. etc;
The other day the sea was full of jelly fish, about a dozen people had been stung. Miss aloof arives and smiles at the lifegaurd, sits her usual 1.53 meters away from me, strips to her micro bikini, and starts to put on.......a leotard, with a hood,
I am dumbfounded.
into the water she goes happy as a pig in Sh*%,
She gets out, and my nerves are no longer present, I nearly jump into her throat, hey miss is that some sort of anti sting suit? She smiles i barely hear the answer.
We talk every day now, and I am getting myself an all lycra, anti jelly fish suit, so I can do my open water swim in peace and quiet in high summer when no one else is in the water.
I don't know if you have access to them but If you want let me know I will send the details
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