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When shopping for windsurf gear, it is easy to look at all of the equipment and gadgets that you could buy and try to determine which is most important. However, one of the things often overlooked, but still important, is a wetsuit.
If you buy a wetsuit, take care of it and it will stay in good shape for quite a while. The following tips will help you maintain your wetsuit as one of the more important pieces of windsurf gear:
• Use shampoo – If you are a frequent user of a wetsuit, clean out the wetsuit in between uses. Allowing things like salt water to stay in your wetsuit will prove irritating to your skin. The best way to clean your wetsuit in between uses is to simply dunk it in warm tap water that also has a cap full of shampoo in it. This will get out the salt water and disinfect at the same time.
• Maintain the zipper – The zipper is another part of the suit you will need to maintain in order to makes sure it does not become corroded or rusted. Washing the zipper in fresh water and often applying a zipper lubricant is a good idea that can help save the zipper.
• Wash it out – One of the problems with wetsuits is the fact that they tend to internalize all sorts of smells that come from the sweat of your body as well as from the smell of the ocean. This is why it is important to clean often and well.Remember that although all kinds of windsurf equipment is important, windsurf gear is also vital to have.
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