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1 in 3 of our product reviews call
ISURUS "THE BEST" WETSUITS
let's breakdown why surfers make that call
Who Says ISURUS Make "The Best" Wetsuits?
1 in 3 ISURUS reviews specifically use the word "best" in their review:
What About The Other Surfers?
The word "amazing" comes up a lot. Surfers tend to call out ISURUS wetsuits as being the warmest, most flexible and highest-performing wetsuits they've ever worn.
What Is It About ISURUS Wetsuits That Makes Them "The Best"?
There are recurring themes and reasons that surfers who start wearing ISURUS wetsuits don't stop.
Apart from how many seasons they last, which is better for the environment and great for your wallet, ISURUS wetsuits are primarily designed to improve your surfing experience:
Stay Warmer. Surf More
PREMIUM MATERIALS
Most wetsuits try to keep the cold out.
ISURUS focuses on retaining and generating heat more efficiently.
Premium material combinations, advanced thermal technologies and a design philosophy obsessed with reducing heat loss all combine to make ISURUS the warmest wetsuits in the surf.
That means you can stay in the water longer, and surf colder days more comfortably.
It makes sense that surfers who want more comfortable surf sessions, more often consider ISURUS "the best".
Flexibility Improves Every Movement
FLEXIBILITY BY DESIGN
A wetsuit shouldn't fight your body.
The less resistance to every paddle stroke and duck dive, the more energy you save for what matters: surfing.
ISURUS wetsuits are carefully designed to move naturally with your body, reducing restriction, improving recovery time, and helping you stay fresher throughout your session.
Surfers are amazed at how flexible ISURUS wetsuits are, and how much this improves their surfing experience.
Less Fatigue. Longer, Better Sessions.
FOCUSED PROGRESSION
Warmth and flexibility aren't just comfort features.
They directly impact fatigue.
When your wetsuit requires less energy to paddle, and your body spends less energy fighting the cold, you stay stronger for longer.
The result is simple: More waves. More progression. More of what you love.
No surfer throws the claim of "the best" around lightly (apart from the waves you didn't see).
it's a testament to our obsession and an honour that so many of our customers are recommended by other surfers.
HOW DOES ISURUS MAKE THE BEST WETSUITS?
There is no single element that enables ISURUS to create the "best" surfing wetsuits; it's a combination of design choices, material selection, testing and a healthy obsession.
ISURUS innovates by taking inspiration from outside the world of surfing to research new materials, collaborate with different suppliers and even emulate the natural world.
Fundamentally, the pillars that support us delivering the best wetsuits are an alchemy of these three things:
From the Japanese Yamamoto Limestone Neoprene to the Titanium Coating used in our warmest wetsuits, we've selected materials without compromise. We know from experience that combining the highest quality materials throughout our wetsuits ensures that they are the best. Our material choices allow us to make wetsuits that feature:
- Compression for fast muscle recovery during sessions
- Amazing thermal properties to keep you surfing in colder conditions
- Flexibility to enable more fluid movement
- Zero paddle restriction to keep your paddle strength and catch more waves
We don't use expensive premium materials for the sake of it. Each one has been tested against generic, cheaper materials to earn a place in our wetsuits, and this results in the best.
Sometimes it's the simple, boring stuff that really makes a difference. When we start talking about "patterns", surfers switch off, but the "cut" of our wetsuits is one of the design decisions that makes it worth using premium materials.
Three things we do that combine to create the best wetsuits:
- Less panels and seams
- Arms-up design
- Bio-mechanical lat panel
We opted for less panels and seams in our wetsuits because whilst this increases the cost, it has a huge impact on reducing restriction when paddling.
We were also the first surfing wetsuits to introduce "arms-up" design. Most upper body clothing is designed for arms hanging by your side. But by designing a wetsuit with the neutral position being "arms-up" - it reduces fatigue when paddling.
The bio-mechanical lat panelconnects from the hip all the way to the elbow, giving a freedom of movement that other wetsuit companies don't.
These three major design choices are complimented by many other decisions across our collections to build the best wetsuits in surfing.
We take the time to work closely with our ambassadors to get feedback from those in the surf. Customer feedback is highly appreciated, but guys & girls surfing and filming 6-8 hours a day in our gear give us unmatched input.
We test our products in the surf rigorously before releasing them, the focus being on improvements that make our products better, not gimmicks that give us some marketing edge.
We're lucky enough to have a mix of ages, backgrounds, nationalities and disciplines in our team and wider testing network.
FAQs - What Makes ISURUS The Best?
- It all comes down to a combination of design and materials, tested in the harshest conditions.
- Most wetsuits companies simply try to keep the cold out. ISURUS focuses on retaining and generating heat more efficiently.
- Yamamoto eco-limestone neoprene that only absorbs 2% water, while other wetsuits double in weight.
- Japanese Yamamoto Limestone Neoprene is around 40% warmer than regular neoprene
- Fewer panels/seams, arms-up design, and bio-mechanical lat panel all contribute to a more flexible design to help you paddle with less restriction - that keeps you warmer.
- Yamamoto, pioneered a process of applying Titanium Metallic Alloy to their Neoprene.
- This creates an extra one millimetre of warmth with no additional fabric thickness
- It reflects your body heat back to your body / Keeps coldness of the water away ... The more you move and paddle the more heat is reflected back.
- This Titanium alloy is what Yamamoto applied to the NASA space shuttle to stop it burning up on re-entry.
- The complex process can only be completed by Yamamoto in Japan - a delicate, artisanal process.
- We live by the mantra of buy well, buy once.
- ISURUS wetsuits are built to last for years, not a season or two.
- We reject the "planned-obsolescence" approach common to mass-market brands this is the outdated strategy of engineering products to fail after a couple of seasons.
- Every stitch, zip and material chosen to endure by design.
- Yamamoto's closed-cell neoprene stays stretchy / keeps elongation recovery / doesn't break down like traditional neoprene.
- We test our wetsuits in the harshest ocean conditions on earth, from Mavericks to Shipsterns and North of the Arctic Circle - guys & girls surfing and filming 6-8 hours a day in our gear.
- The most sustainableone is the one that stays out of landfill the longest.