Wetsuit Peeing

They say that there are two kinds of wetsuit owners... those who pee in their wetsuit, and those who lie about it.

But I can't speak for anyone else. So, to answer your question: "yes", and if I were going to occupy myself with worrying about sharks, I would also stop leaving the house for fear I might attract a bolt of lightning.

I love "turning the heater on" its usually the first thing I do once I get passed the break and no it does not make worry about getting attacked by a shark. If you are really a fan of pissing in your suit try pissing before you get in the water.

I'm a peer. I've been known to pee in my wetsuit while walking down the sand. That always feels really wrong for some reason.

I like to think that all the upvotes in this thread are the "silent majority" of suit-pissers. Suit-pissers of the world, come out! You have nothing to lose but your shame. And excess fluids. And some urea.

Yea!

I work darn hard not to piss in my suits. I has been done on occasion but it's something I try to avoid if at all possible. Wetsuits smell bad enough without adding to it. Most of the time my suits sit in my car unrinsed until I get home at night 8-10 hours later. I can only imagine how bad it would be if I regularly took a leak in it.

My only worry is that I might get so familiar to the flood of sometimes much needed warmth and the joy of transcending the taboo of peeing in your pants and end up wee-ing in my long johns on shore.

Surfing is one of the only sports where you can pee your uniform. I try not to as much as possible because it always seems to collect in my booties and stink later. Although, at OB it always stinks like pee in the parking lot, so it's a hard smell to escape either way, I suppose.

I guess I've never noticed the smell because I have the luxury of being able to wash my gear inside-out pretty religiously after every session.

Peeing is a piss-poor way to stay warm though (ba dum tshh). You're transferring warmth from inside your body to outside, where it will more easily dissipate. The problem I have is that I just tend to need to pee once I've been wet for a little while, and holding it in is uncomfortable. So there :)

I was explaining to someone today how surfing had every element of Folsom St. except being bound and spanked, and then I realized the ocean does a pretty good job on the last part.

We live in a city where people pay others to pee on them. Peeing on yourself pales.

That said, I stopped peeing in my suit after correlating a couple UTIs with bladder relief in suit. I'm guessing whatever it is that gives wetsuit that sweaty-socks-meets-gym-locker smell, swam up stream.

This thread reminds me of a trick a college roomie used to pull (on) before a night of heavy drinking: Depends.

One less cup of coffee in the morning probably wouldn't kill you guys either.
Don't drink coffee, as a result, my wetsuit is like roses in springtime.

Although I'm usually severely dehydrated and slightly hypothermic by the time I get back to my car, so it's a trade off.

Of course I do.. Never had a smell issue but I do put my used suit in a dry bag with about 1 or 2 gallons of fresh water if I'm not gonna be able to rinse and hang promptly.. the result is my suits don't really smell...

Booties on the other hand do get kinda funky

I don't pee in my suit.

I don't like the idea of Golden Showers either. For those of you who do though, more power to ya!

i like the peter heater

When at OB, definitely. When at a place without dozens of duck dives per hour, I think twice about it. I learned my lesson when I was at 38th ave in Santa Cruz enjoying a lazy, dry-hair kind of day in the lineup. Peed in my wettie as per standard operating procedure and didn't think twice about it until I was in the parking lot taking off my suit. I was *certain* by the overpowering smell that some bum had peed next to my car. Turns out the bum was me.

Oh, also, I think twice after having asparagus with dinner.That's stanky.

i hadn't even considered the "asparagus factor". definitely something to think about.

I'm on the no pee side. I don't get cold in my suit, no need to warm it up HA! My suit doesn't flush enough. I just don't want to soak in it.

cryptomail was kind enough tonight to try to teach me to skateboard. while I was sitting on the curb frustrated he says "eww, dogs pee on the street" and I said "so? you pee in your wetsuit" and that was the end of our discussion on SF sidewalk sanitation.

LMAO@ tracey

I was told our pee contains white blood cells, so I try not to pee in my wetsuit.