Rocket XP Wetsuit Review

The March Issue of Triathlete Magazine had our Rocket XP Wetsuit reviewed and I wanted to re-hash the comments made about our suit. But first, I want to clarify some of our technology so that you may better understand how different our suits really are from the rest.

Brad Culp is the tech editor for Triathlete Magazine and is great to work with. You really have to appreciate a person who is constantly having products thrown at him to test and write about.

Marcin set out to design our Rocket XP from the ground up. First, we spent more time and money designing and perfecting the welded seam so that there would be no chafing threads on the inside of the suit. Marcin was able to find and build our suits without losing the stretchiness at all these panel junctions. It is the most stretchy welded seams I have ever felt.

Next we looked at the neoprene. Again Marcin stepped up and sought out materials from other industries and figured out a way to laminate Yamamoto's super low drag SCS coating onto a non-neoprene material on the inside of the BLT panels in the legs of our Rocket XP to make them 55% more buoyant than standard neoprene and 30% more buoyant than 5mm of the top of the line available to the industry!

The SCS coating Yamamoto uses on their top end neoprene is the gold standard for low drag neoprene surfaces. How we make our Rocket XP even faster and lower drag than that is with the utilization of the "v" shaped vortex generators on the lower back of our suit (see picture below). We are the first in the industry to use this technique. It is because Marcin has a background in aerospace engineering that we have and are able to apply his knowledge to make groundbreaking products. It also helps that he has been a competitive swimmer and triathlete, thus giving him a good base to try and figure out how to make things better.

Before quoting the review, I would like to post the comments made to me by Brad via email immediately after he tested our wetsuit. The timing of getting our wetsuit to him couldn't have been better because ours was the very last one for him to test, so he knew how it could compare to everything else. I also spoke to him right before testing so I could point out for him to pay specific attention to the special buoyancy panels in the legs (the ones I mentioned are 30% more buoyant than 5mm of the top of the line).

Here is what Brad had to say:
"Both Jay and I noticed the leg panels the minute I threw it on -- very nice touch. I like the very low-key arm catch panels too. Some wetsuit makers use these elaborate designs on the catch panel and all it does is cause you to carry a lot of air into the water -- very nice work!"

Triathlete Magazine March 08 Review
"Darren Zielinski at Rocket Science Sports assured us that the seamless design makes the Rocket XP the toughest wetsuit on the market. We took that as meaning we had an open invitation to beat the crap out of the suit, and we did. The suit truly stood up to the test. Aside from being able to withstand any amount of tugging and pulling without splitting, the seamless suit fits extremely well and optimizes range of motion through the arms and shoulders."

Cheers!