Equipment

For my first training session I bought a pair of fins and a snorkel. Fins are alright. What can be wrong with fins? But snorkel is a bit of a joke. I bought a one with a silicon bottom part and a valve. Two problems with it:

• soft bottom part makes it wobbly and unstable after turns. I haven't tried, but I can imagine where the snorkel going to end up after jumping from a platform.
• the valve actually helps water to stay inside the snorkel. Unlike old fassion ones, where one powerfull exhail can remove water completely, in this one it was taking me three or four exhails to do the same.

So new technologies didn't quite work for me.