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Just looking for some advice- I have a Dagger Atom, but when I roll my "onside" knee slips out of it's kneepad, causing a less than stellar roll. Now my technique needs work also, but this is not helping. When I "tighten" up my outfitting using thigh straps and toe blocks, it helps my roll tremendously, but it is impossibly pain-full! I guess I need to find that happy medium, I was just wondering if someone had a tip that could help.

Thanks...rp

Take some foam pieces and shim yourself in. I've seen this done by other c1ers.

i was never able to stay in mine either, hated that boat if you love the boat like many others, well... maybe you can move the thigh straps back a little. adding some knee straps is a little more work, but would really help.

Hey H H

I owned an Atom for a while, but I agree with Larry -- I wasn't overly fond of it, or of the factory-installed strap system.

Recently, I've been fitting out a Remix, and after massive reading in this forum, decided to go with straps high on the thighs, and a bulkhead with cut-outs for the knees. I've had no problem with slipping around, (and my own "less than stellar roll", I hate to say, is attributable only to sloppy technique. Dam'!)

Couple of comments: some colleagues expressed dissatisfaction with the holes-in-the-bulkhead idea, cuz if the holes fit bare knees in warm weather, they were too tight for knees in wetsuits or drysuits.

I solved that by making the holes large enough for suited legs, and when I am bare-legged, I wear kneepadz made from an old wetsuit (with BIG cut-outs behind the knees.) Ugly as sin, but so's the owner.

As far as the thigh-straps are concerned, I am using stainless-steel airplane-style seatbelt buckles, rigged so one pull on my spray-skirt strap springs both buckles. Works well. PM me if you want pix.

Good luck with your Atom.

BTW -- to all youse guyz who recommended a Remix conversion -- THANK YOU -- I'm having a blast in mine!

Rick