Re: swim rings
I like to know how much weight is on the inflatable, which is why small swim rings don't do much for me. They don't hold me, so I put just some of my weight on them but I don't know how much. It's still fun, but I prefer to see someone smaller sit on these. They'll sometimes hold me for at least a while if I spread my weight over the whole thing, but I prefer squashing part of an inflatable and seeing another part bulge. Unevenly loaded like that, neither a 30 incher nor a 36 incher will hold anywhere near my weight.
My partner is also too heavy for small swim rings, but there are two other women I've gotten to do this. The smaller is about 200 pounds, and the larger is 285. I thought she was 270, and I don't remember if that was a guess or if she told me that, but she recently told me she was 285.
Anyway, the larger of the two is good for 36 inch rings. She's a little too heavy for them, but the ones that survive are awesome to see. But I recently had her sit on a 30 incher. That doesn't normally last long once she sits to one side to unevenly load it, but this time it held her. She lifted her feet and sat upright so all her weight was on it and it held. She got off it so we could admire how unevenly it had stretched, then we let it recover a bit, and she got back on it, a lot less carefully. She squirmed around to see how much she could flatten. I told her the objective was to try to flatten just a bit more than you can, so that you float and all your weight is on the tube and not on the floor. She's so much bigger than the tube that she has to roll onto her hip and stack her legs on top of one another to get her weight on the tube and off the floor.
"It's flat from my hip to my thigh...there, now I'm floating!"
"Get off your hand"
"Okay..it's flat again...no, there, I got it! Floating!"
It still held her. I had to take her word for it that she was floating, because it looked like more than a third of the ring was flattened.
She got up and we admired how stretched out it was. We let it recover and she got on it again. The side she was not on was huge. I was going to go get a tape measure to see how much bigger it gets compared to freshly inflated, but then it popped. Not as loud as an air mattress pillow exploding, but it was pretty loud.
My partner was emboldened to try a 36 incher, but it didn't hold her. She's about 440 pounds. We didn't have any 45 inchers, but we did have a two-person, double ring float, and all three of us got on that. My partner and I have both been on it several times, so I thought it would hold the three of us, but it didn't. It did a sudden deflation that I would call less than a pop. It was a let down, no pun intended.
I like to know how much weight is on the inflatable, which is why small swim rings don't do much for me. They don't hold me, so I put just some of my weight on them but I don't know how much. It's still fun, but I prefer to see someone smaller sit on these. They'll sometimes hold me for at least a while if I spread my weight over the whole thing, but I prefer squashing part of an inflatable and seeing another part bulge. Unevenly loaded like that, neither a 30 incher nor a 36 incher will hold anywhere near my weight.
My partner is also too heavy for small swim rings, but there are two other women I've gotten to do this. The smaller is about 200 pounds, and the larger is 285. I thought she was 270, and I don't remember if that was a guess or if she told me that, but she recently told me she was 285.
Anyway, the larger of the two is good for 36 inch rings. She's a little too heavy for them, but the ones that survive are awesome to see. But I recently had her sit on a 30 incher. That doesn't normally last long once she sits to one side to unevenly load it, but this time it held her. She lifted her feet and sat upright so all her weight was on it and it held. She got off it so we could admire how unevenly it had stretched, then we let it recover a bit, and she got back on it, a lot less carefully. She squirmed around to see how much she could flatten. I told her the objective was to try to flatten just a bit more than you can, so that you float and all your weight is on the tube and not on the floor. She's so much bigger than the tube that she has to roll onto her hip and stack her legs on top of one another to get her weight on the tube and off the floor.
"It's flat from my hip to my thigh...there, now I'm floating!"
"Get off your hand"
"Okay..it's flat again...no, there, I got it! Floating!"
It still held her. I had to take her word for it that she was floating, because it looked like more than a third of the ring was flattened.
She got up and we admired how stretched out it was. We let it recover and she got on it again. The side she was not on was huge. I was going to go get a tape measure to see how much bigger it gets compared to freshly inflated, but then it popped. Not as loud as an air mattress pillow exploding, but it was pretty loud.
My partner was emboldened to try a 36 incher, but it didn't hold her. She's about 440 pounds. We didn't have any 45 inchers, but we did have a two-person, double ring float, and all three of us got on that. My partner and I have both been on it several times, so I thought it would hold the three of us, but it didn't. It did a sudden deflation that I would call less than a pop. It was a let down, no pun intended.
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