The Importance of Jet Variety vs. Jet Counting
Many shoppers for spas are not sure what to look for in a hot tub and will resort to jet counting. Jet counting shoppers are usually shoppers with little experience with hot tubs. Yes, in some cases, a spa with more jets is better than a spa with fewer jets. What a spa shopper should be looking for is a large jet variety. Think of things this way, a five person spa with 50 jets, having 10 jets in each seat, are all the same jet in the same position. Is it still a five person spa? No it is a one person spa with 5 of the same seats. Now if you have a five person spa and each seat has completely different jets that all feel different from seat to seat and placed in different positions, which one would you rather have? Having a large jet variety is like circuit training. When circuit training you go from station to station, working out different muscles with different exercises and get a full body workout. In a spa you want to do the same thing, but instead getting a full body workout, you are get a full body massage. Listed below are some of the different varieties of jets that Hot Spring Spas and Artesian Spas offer.
JET VARIETY
Quartet Jet System
Stress and tension disappear as four Precision jets, located above each Moto-Massage jet, work like an extra set of hands to massage and sooth your neck and shoulders.
Hydromassage Jets
Powerful but not overwhelming, these jets are directional and have a nozzle with an exclusive design that enhances the flow of water for maximum performance. The interchangeable spinner jets have two nozzles designed to make the water shoot out in a V-shaped pattern of water for a choppy, pulsating massage. Or you can take the jet completely out of the collar and have a wider softer feel. Again these jets are interchangeable so the soaker has the ability to customize the seat to their liking.
Jet-Clutter Systems
For an entire back massage, the exclusive Jet-Cluster hydromassage systems target specific muscle groups. Ten precision jets perform like the fingers of a masseuse on your back and shoulders with a soft, yet penetrating feel, unlike conventional mini-jets which soon wear out their welcome.
Jetstream Jets
Aching lower back pain needs an extra powerful jet. The JetStream jet is an invigorating, directional whirlpool jet that's twice as powerful as a Hydromassage jet, offering quick relief. After a long day on your feet, nothing feels better than the strong massage of the JetStream jets. While other spas typically only use standard mini-jets, the foot well system uses the power of the JetStream jet to provide an exhilarating foot massage. It is like having a fire hose on your feet!
Soothing Seven Jets
The Soothing Seven Jets are a Hot Spring spa exclusive. Each of the jets has seven nozzles that deliver a large volume of water. Positioned side by side, they provide a soft, gentle treatment to your shoulders and upper back. It is like having a fourteen finger massage. These jets are perfect to sit in front of for a long time without getting beat up because they are so soft. Most sit in this seat last before they get out enjoying a soothing massage.
Moto-Massage Jets
Imagine two warm streams of water rolling up and down the entire length of your back, soothing overworked muscles and loosening all the little knots of tension. It’s so comfortable that you’ll enjoy resting against it for an extended, invigorating rubdown. The Moto-Massage is another Hot Spring spa exclusive. The Quartet Jet System works in harmony with the Moto-Massage jet for overall neck, shoulder and back massage.
Helix Jets
The Island Spa line features a revolutionary breakthrough in hydrotherapy jetting that makes use of the timeless concept of the helix, a three-dimensional double spiral form. This new jet, aptly named the Helix, has been designed to provide a truly revolutionary hydro-massage exclusive to the Island Spas by Artesian. Engineered from the concept of the double helix, the jets use a right-directional spiral on the inside of the cylinder. This causes water to spiral out in a twisting manner, providing jet pulsation and massaging pressure. The two largest Helix jets, named ProHelix, provide a high volume of water to massage large muscles in the body. The ProHelix can spin or be positioned to stay straight. The midsize Helix, called TheraHelix, is strategically placed in small groups in the spa to massage muscles such as calf, hamstring, deltoids, biceps, and triceps. The smallest Helix jet, the AccuHelix, is placed in large groupings to massage larger regions of the body, such as the entire back. As a complete system, four to five different sizes of Helix jets are featured in every Island Spa model. The count of jets can vary from 56 to 22 on some Island Spa models.
Reverse Molded Neck jets
Many spas have one or two seats that concentrate on the back of the neck and shoulders. The reverse molded neck jet seat is unique because it concentrates on the back of the neck and concentrates on the top of the shoulders. That area is a very hard spot of the body to get a good massage and this seat allows a truly unique massage in a hot tub. These jets have the ability to turn on and off. So when you come home from a long hard day at work and have a lot of stress in your shoulders and neck, wouldn’t you like to have the option to turn on powerful jets that will sooth the stress in your neck away than not have it at all?
Platinum and Platinum Elite corner seats
In Artesian’s Platinum Classes, the best way to describe the way some of the corner seats feel is that the seat and jets hug and wrap around you. Most of the jets offer a spinning option on the jet so you have jets swirling on your back, shoulders, sides and on the sides of you legs in some seats. It gives you a feeling that there isn’t another spot that a jet can land on you. It is a feeling that other spas do not offer.