Omer Rubber Weight Belt with Plastic Buckle

I've been free diving all my life and always used the typical nylon weight belt. Well the trouble with those is that they are constantly shifting around on my waist and, worse yet, when you invert to dive straight down the entire weight belt will often slide toward your chest. Until now I always thought that this was just part of what you have to deal with when free diving. Well, if you're like I was and have never tried a belt of this this type (stretch rubber), then you're in for a real improvement.With this belt you can stretch and tighten the belt as much as you like/need to get the right amount of hugging effect around your waist. I found that once this adjustment is done you won't have to mess with the weight belt the remainder of your dive. For me this is a really great enhancement to my diving experience.I debated which brand and model to go with of this type rubber belt and was aided in my decision by phoning one of the Amazon vendors (Austins Dive of So Fla). I spoke with a guy who works in the shop who said I should save my money and not get one of the pricey belts with a stainless steel buckle. After diving with this Omer belt for two weeks in the Bahamas (using 11 pounds of weights over my wetsuit) I agree with him completely. This is a great product!In my opinion this is one of those happy circumstances in which the least expensive product performs as well as the more expensive . . . in that it does a perfect job of comfortably keeping my weight belt exactly where I wanted it.

I have an integrated weight belt with my BC so I only use these type of weight belts when freediving. I have been using a a neoprene weight belt that takes the little shotgun pellet bags of weights, and thought that decent, but it was a bit cumbersome. I purchased this ahead of taking the Level 1 Freediving certification class and I am so glad that I did.In the class, we learned that it is best to have the weight belt around your hips (so as not to interfere with breathing from the diaphragm), and that is hard to do with the soft neoprene pocket belts. This rubber is much more flexible than nylon belts and stays in place. I really have nothing bad to say about this product, it's just awesome.

a must have belt,fair warning to people ordering it, get different belt clips (teethless) if you are going to be using rubber.go to your local dive shop they should have it.

This is a great belt, nice and stretchy. The rubber material is much more supple and stretchy than other rubber weight belts I've tried, making it very comfortable and not restrictive to breathing. I have about 20 lbs on mine and it works just fine. This belt is thin also, and is thus very easy to use with pinch weights and can even fit some blue coated bullet weights I had lying around.My only complaint is regarding the plastic buckle-- you have to give the tail of the belt a pretty firm tug to release it, which may be difficult in an emergency. (Do not try to ditch the belt by trying to pry open the plastic; instead, leave a tail of at least 4 inches of belt hanging past the buckle and pull on that to drop the belt.) It's good to practice ditching this belt before diving with it, especially if freediving. (You should probably do this anyway, with any belt.)I ended up removing the plastic pinch buckle from this belt and attaching a Marseilles-style buckle from a different belt. I recommend spending a little more for the Omer Marseillaise Rubber Weight Belt. It's the same stretchy material with a far superior Marseilles buckle.