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Bungees (loop or continuous) should pull the cylinder valves firmly under your armpits to prevent them from "flopping" away from your body. 3. Gas Management & Redundancy

Sidemount exposes your sides. In a backmount rig, the tank and wing form a thermal barrier. In sidemount, your ribs are directly in contact with the water (and the cold tank). This leads to the most overlooked principle: Sidemount- Principles For Success

The greatest lie in Sidemount marketing is that it’s “easy to manage valves.” It is easy only if you have drilled the motor pattern into muscle memory. The reality: you are turning a stiff knob behind your armpit, upside down, in the dark, using the wrong hand for the wrong tank. Bungees (loop or continuous) should pull the cylinder