Ark Sports Korp Swimrun Wetsuit Review

<p>Ark Sports KORP Wetsuit Review</p><p>Welcome to Gear Talk! As always, this show is co-hosted by our friends Annie and Brooke from <a href="https://swimrunlabs.com/">Swimrun Labs</a>.</p><p>In this episode we do a deep dive into the <a href="https://www.arksports.com/en-int/ark-korp-mens/">Ark Sports KORP Wetsuit</a>. This suit has gotten a lot of attention lately due to Ark deeply discounting the suit by 50% for a week that caused the corner of the internet that cares about Swimrun to freak out. We know that a lot of people purchased these suits so we breakdown all of our thoughts on this amazing piece of kit.</p><p>But first, we are unveiling a new segment...</p><p><strong>Untethered Thoughts</strong></p><p>We got a great email from Jasper from Belgium with some feedback about our winter open water swimming AND our swim paddles episodes. We really appreciated him taking the time to write to us and that inspired us to create this segment.</p><p>Jasper (who has a PhD in physiology) wrote to us to clear up that the reason that people tend to pee more when it’s cold is that kidneys are flushing fluid out in order to release pressure from your system to send blood to your core to keep your organs warm. Hence, you can get more dehydrated in cold water so make sure that you’re on top of your hydration all the time, but definitely during cold events.</p><p>Jasper also had some feedback on some swim paddle testing that he did and had some interesting findings. He found that if he shortened the distance from the tip of the swim paddle to the tip of his fingers that this made his swim times be faster with less shoulder strain. It totally makes sense that if you shorten the lever arm (length of the arm with paddles) that this reduces the torque on the shoulder. If your paddles have extra holes for straps, try to moving them so that your fingertips are closer to the edge of the paddles and see if that works for you. </p><p>Thank you again Jasper!</p><p>Reach out to us if you have anything that you’d like to share with us