Selecting the Right Pair of Swim Fins

When choosing a pair of water sport swim fins, POD Ware highly recommends that “Comfort” and “Fit” be the number one most important factor. 

Second should be “Performance”, and the third is “Price”, as we say… If you have Comfort and Performance is worth the price you pay.

Natural Rubber Water Sport Swim Fins

Swimming has always been a popular activity, whether for fitness, leisure, or competition. With advances in swim gear, more swimmers, bodyboarders, bodysurfers. lifeguards and ocean photographers are discovering the benefits of swim fins. Among these, natural rubber swim fins have gained a lot of attention. They not only enhance performance but are also an eco-friendly alternative to traditional synthetic fins.

Eco-Friendly Material

One of the biggest advantages of natural rubber swim fins is their environmental friendliness. Natural rubber is biodegradable, meaning it breaks down naturally without harming the environment. Sourced from rubber trees, this material is sustainable and renewable. This makes natural rubber swim fins a green option compared to synthetic alternatives made from petroleum-based products.

Let's address these two swim fins features.

To maximise swimming effectiveness, having properly fitting swim fins is essential for comfort during long sessions. Ensuring a snug fit gives peace of mind and boosts performance by allowing your feet and legs to thrust harmoniously with the swim fins. This synergy is especially pronounced with high-quality natural rubber swim fins, ensuring the best results.

Comfort

The fin should fit snugly without squeezing your foot or toes. If it to tight, you'll get cramps.

The opening of the foot pocket and fin strap should be nice and snug, and if either is loose, they are more than likely to slip off in the surf.

However, it is less than a few millimetres around the foot pocket opening you can wear POD 3mm Neoprene Fin Socks for snug fit and a further comfort.

If it is snug around the foot pocket, but the fin strap is still loose? You can where POD Neoprene Heel Protects and Fin Savers for a better fit, heel protection and fins safety.

Have doubts or worries about losing your rubber fins in the surf? You consider a pair of Deluxe Fin Savers a small price to pay to safeguard your investment.

All of the POD fins are comfortable top-of-the-line quality rubber that ensures a perfect fit; please select the size that corresponds with our foot sizing chart.

Please Note; Size S 6-7 and XL 11-12 are not avialble in PF3 POD Swim Fins.

If you have ordered the wrong size? Email Us at Customer Support or via the Contact Us page. 

We accept returns for exchanges, minus shipping costs or the swim fins that haven't been in the surf. Please return them in the original box within 30 days of receiving your order.

Performance

A swim fin should provide the right thrust. We offer swim fins with "symmetric" blades designed on both sides, ensuring excellent balance and reducing strain on your feet, ankles, and knees.

Asymmetric fins have a diagonal blade design. The PF3 POD swim fin's asymmetric blade edge has been designed with the blade curvature more towards the centre to feel similar to an asymmetric blade, with the extra advantage of extra trust and wave-holding ability.

Shorter blades allow a quicker start but require more kicks to cover the same distance as longer fins. On the other hand, longer blade fins can place additional strain on your feet, ankles, and knees.

Now here’s a run down of our POD bodysurfing fins, what they are best suited for:

POD Ware has crafted a line of superior water sport swim fins that exceed your expectations. Our PF1, PF2 and PF3 Evolution fins cater to every experience level and are built to withstand even the harshest days out on the ocean.

We’re proud to bring you a line of bodysurfing flippers that give you power and comfort; provide you with the best of both worlds. POD PF-series fins are made from the highest grade of natural, buoyant rubber and built with multiple density layers for rugged construction that lasts. With their unique, cutting-edge design, all of our POD flippers give you the speed and performance you desire, along with the maximum comfort that lasts through even the most extended riding sessions.

POD Fins 1 - PF1's

The streamlined, high-tech design of our POD Fins 1 – PF1s makes them ideal for entry-level bodying bodysurfing. They are also excellent for knee-boarding and drop-knee bodyboarding, ocean swimming or use as training swim fins.

POD Fins PF1: Swim Fin Features

• Manufactured with Malaysian highest quality natural buoyant rubber compounds
• Foot size relative to blade length ratio
• POD patented lamination technique for super sturdy construction
• Soft rubber lined extended foot pocket is exceptionally comfortable
• Unique Splay Rails® combined with symmetric blade provide excellent balance, thrust, speed and control
• Drainage design ensures quick water and sand release from the foot pocket

POD Fins 2 - PF2's

Are an ADVANCED Boost Performance Comfort Enhancing model surfing fins/flippers compared to the PF1s, they are far more robust making them superior for any water sports activities including ocean photography.

The precise engineering and streamline Siccut® design, combined with the unique Splay Rails® and symmetric Chisel Blade®, provide excellent balance and a more powerful kick with directed thrust, speed and control, they are lightweight with deep channels and vertical rails that produce greater wave holding stability.

The extended pocket for versatile fittings and the drainage design ensures rapid water and sand release. Tread Rails® that run along the outside of the foot pocket provide extra strength and durability.

POD Fins PF2 Features

• Manufactured with Malaysian highest quality natural buoyant rubber compounds
• Foot size relative to blade length ratio
• Lightweight and robust Siccut® design
• POD patented lamination technique for super sturdy construction
• Soft rubber lined extended foot pocket is exceptionally comfortable
• Unique Splay Rails® combined with symmetric Chisel Blade® provide excellent balance and a more powerful kick with directed thrust, speed and control
• Vertical rails produce greater wave holding stability
• Drainage design ensures quick water and sand release from the foot pocket
• Tread Rails® that run along the outside of the foot pocket provide extra strength and durability"

POD Fins - PF3 Evolution

Asymmetric surfing fins are the most excellent performance available for bodyboarding and bodysurfing fins.

Proven to be the world's first asymmetric fins with a closer balance compare with symmetric swim fins, this in return reduces the load across the feet, ankles and knees. PF3s have asymmetric foot pocket with foot size to blade length ratio, unique Splay Rails®, deep channels, flexible vertical rails and blade.

These attributes provide a powerful kick with directed thrust, balance, speed and control with greater wave hold stability. The extended foot pocket offers versatile fittings, and the drainage design guarantees fast water and sand release.

POD Fins PF3 Features

• Asymmetrical design delivers the precision balance
• Foot size relative to blade length ratio
• Manufactured with Malaysian highest quality natural buoyant rubber compounds
• POD patented lamination technique for super well-built construction
• Soft rubber lined extended foot pocket is exceptionally comfortable
• Unique Splay Rails® combined with asymmetric blade provide excellent balance and a more powerful kick with directed thrust, speed and control
• Vertical rails produce greater wave holding stability
• Drainage design ensures quick water and sand release from the foot pocket

Final Wrap

All three model POD Swim Fins PF1, PF2 and PF3 all have extended foot pockets for versatile fittings to ensure first and foremost “Comfort”.

Symmetric models POD Swim Fins namely the POD Fins PF1 and PF2 will provide excellent balance and distributing the load equally across your ankles, knees and leg muscles. If by any chance you have had any leg or ankle injuries these two model swim fins best suit you.

Last, of all the POD Fins PF3, even though they have asymmetric blades and foot pockets, in the design process, there was a lot of thought taken into consideration to produce a model with the extra thrust that feels closer to a symmetric model balance, to reduce the load on your ankles and knees, unlike other asymmetric rubber swim fins.