Powerskin Trisuit Carbon explained by Greg Steyger

We use four different thicknesses of neoprene in these suits for added buoyancy but also in control buoyancy so when you’re swimming you don’t want to be too high in the front or too high in the legs. You want to have a good position in the water and by placing the different thicknesses in different areas of the wetsuit; it can get you perfectly aligned in the water. Up here we have a 1.5 mm Yamamoto SCS coated neoprene. 1.5 because you want maximum freedom of movement in the shoulders, you don’t want any restrictions at all during your stroke, very important. In the legs, we have a 3 mm, and in the chest and on the back we have 3 mm. Sure warmth is important but you don’t want too much buoyancy, you don’t want to be fighting against buoyancy in the legs and in the upper body. With the core region here, very important, you can see we have used a Yamamoto aerodynamic neoprene, which is a laminated neoprene, it traps air inside gives more buoyancy. This is a 4.5 mm neoprene there and the completely unique thing about this is that we have laminated the inside of this aerodynamic neoprene with our carbon infused fabric which we use from racing. Now what that does is basically provides you with an addition support and compression through the core region giving you a perfect platform from which to swim, these panels are found here in the core region, upper legs and across the buttocks. Not in the chest or down here because they would not give you even buoyancy. In the back of the w