Since buying the suit I have discovered from reading this forum that ‘K’ sizes are available (although not available online from the retailer I ordered from) which offer a larger zip size, but I don’t want the suit to be unnecessarily baggy in case I need to swim in it. Without an impact vest the suit fits well once my shoulders are in. I’ve only tried the suit on at home so I’m thinking of swapping it, would the XL size offer greater ease of entry and exit (as I’m 6’) and allow for a vest to be warn under, or would a K size be the only option to get the larger zip size?

Surely the larger zip would make sense on all the size L and up sizes?!

“Hey ned it’s been most of the season now and I’ve had plenty of sessions in the drysuit and I knew that I promised feedback.  I also saw that there is a new generation of suit coming in the fall so my feedback might not be too useful.

Until recently, I was interested but not completely sold.  Then I surfed my wetsuit on two occassions with a session in the dry between.  Now I’m sold but know there is work to be done.
Hood-maybe the best in the business.  The thiner hood keeps head compression to a minimum, I’m able to pull it on or off while lying prone and paddling. The thickness seems plenty. I lost the shock cord in the trim and now the hood flushes so I’m hunting for a replacement cord but otherwise, hands down the best hood ever.
cuffs- actually quite good but do get pushed up and/or flush into gloves when putting a hand into the face.  Maybe a less flexible cuff layer sewn in?
back zip- hard to get the outer skin zipped over the drysuit and another zip in the back to add to the back zip in the underlayer the dryzip then this one.  Both weight and inflexibility that negatively impacts the suit.  Maybe a zipperless undergarment and the outer skin a chest zip to have the bulk distributed around.  Also the chest zip would eliminate the need to have the “break” in the suit at the abdominal region and maybe eliminate the shoulder straps by just having the top come over at the chest zip.
ankle zips-no problems yet but the velcro is starting to wear and the zips have opened during wipeouts a couple times.  I suspect that this might be an area that causes product breakdown sooner than we’d wish.  ?may just be unnecessary and may just streamline the design and help bridge the gap with looks and image that it may take to sell a product like this to image concious surf culture.  They do the trick though.
flex-while I can see that attention has been made to making sure that the paddle position is free from flex issues, the surfing position has been sacrificed.  The suit is more free to paddle but lacks the ability to forward flex the spine and the upper back bulk does change the feel of arm movement when turning.
Skin - it is time consuming and a bit tough to get into and the skin does get hung up on the drysuit but the 2 parts is not a huge deal.  I like that it’s compressing the suit.  I bet it would be awesome with a next gen neoprene with more flex and since there is no reliance on this part for warmth why not get a material that absorbs even less water.  Either a thinner neoprene or one of the hydrophobic ones.  Maybe neoprene isn’t even the right material?
Surf public perception- I’ve had tons of questions from other surfers and friends.  Luxurious is the most interesting comment.  Consistently there is a major misconception about the bouyancy, I’m not sure it’s less, at least not in feel but that may be due to the added bouyancy of the skin.  It’s certainly not more.  The inability to flex forward at the upper back though makes duckdives a bit tougher.  The packing effect we see in wetties, ie they suck after one season, is eliminated.  But nobody knows that there is no packing effect to the suit.  All the warmth is the layering so I figure the public would do well to know that the suit they bought will stay the same warmth for years (now the upfront cost seems not so bad if it lasts 2-3 times or more longer than the wettie that cost half as much.  Repairability is not even thought about but suit outshines a wetsuit 10-1.  We all rip our suits in a wash though the local muscle covered rocks.
So as I said Ned.  2 surfs back in the wetsuit has shown me clearly what I love and what needs a tweak.  But the lack of bone chilling flushes into my suit, is something I’ll never miss.  I’m pro surf dry and fully sold.  Your team has the right idea for cold water surf and the fact that I can stay warm for a solid 3 hours in the water when it’s 8 degrees says something (only the one undergarment).
Hopefully something I’ve said will be helpful.

I can even see myself using it skiing/snowboarding/snowmachining or winter snow-kiting on sloppy days. I’m coastal here, and we get great snow followed by rain on some storm-cycles. HHHMMMMM??!

Anyone have a thought on this product??

Please, can we wait til some of you have actually touched Ocean Rodeo’s newest drysuit, the SOUL!?! before we compare it to NPX’s offering? It would be so obvious to do so, but let’s wait until we’ve tested it!

Please use this thread to begin posting your experiences with the all new Pyro Surf drysuit.

Those of you who love chatting on forums might like to read this thread on Coastal BC and possibly weigh in on the debate. For that matter, you can weigh in on this one and this one too if you wish!

Now, check out this totally independent review just posted on Coastal BC . Coastal BC is the largest Canadian West Coast Surf site so we were pretty stoked to see the review come up favourably!

John Z :evil:

I have some wear on the inner part of my surf dry drysuit and was wondering how best to deal with it. The wear hasn’t formed any holes and I don’t think it lets any water in yet. I have quite a few of these wear marks where the harness goes. The suit came with a repair strip, the same as what is round all the seams of the suit. Should I just iron this onto the damaged areas? Also, I don’t think I have enough to repair all the areas.
Is there anything else I can stick over these areas to stop them forming actual holes or do I need a repair kit. (I am from the UK)

Cheers

Simon

Once you have the dry adhesive glue on the seal, then follow this web page. It has some great pictures.
2. Applying the neck seal
http://strikk.com/dr/

Things of note:
- Get a heat gun because it works much better then a hair dryer
- The neck seal with the glue is going to be smaller then the neck opening on your suit. So it will have to stretch the seal/glue as you heat it up.
- The dry adhesive glue is great because once it cools down, you can always heat it back up if you don’t like what you did.
- Replacing wrist seals is easy. Replacing neck seal is hard. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

I have a Pyro Pro since 2009. When I store it every end of winter season I keep it in a plastic bag with baby powder on the latex seals.

Few days ago when I was prepearing the dry suit for this winter season (starting this days), I found the neck like melted and one wrist too.

It was all summer in a bassement with out heat, in the pastic bag. Where I live the weather is dry.

Can anyone tell me what happened? How can I avoid it in the future?

This are the pictures of the neck´s latex seal.

Thanks