The Suunto X6 HR : An Urban Home Companion
Posted By Nicolas Danan on 12 June 2006
What really impresses me about the Suunto X6 HR is the heartbeat monitor, compass and altimeter/hiking mode. I found the heartbeat monitor to be accurate, validated against my watch and a manual pulse read. The heart rate meter works perfectly in the pool (so does the A5) but do be sure to rinse it well, along with the chest band, so chlorine doesn’t eat up the elastic.
So - New York and freedive training can go together. I've heard the same refrain so many times from so many of my freediving friends: “Oy, I live in a cold city (sob !) it's hard to train (sob !) here”… No excuses, please! It is feasible, just use what you have and make it work. The Suunto X6HR makes a fine good urban training companion and a great adjunct to our beloved D3. I hope that in the near future we'll see a combination of the two, as the main problem now is finding heart monitor that works properly in a salt-water environment at depth, and all this at a competitive price. Suunto is a creative company and I am sure that as freediving grows we'll see this “holy grail” computer come to market.
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