From the Today Show
Matt Lauer:
>>> we are just 240 days away from the opening ceremony of the 2012 london olympics. usa swimmers, ryan phelps, ryan lochte and katie franklin, natalie. you're unveiling something newell' be seeing in competition, i don't normally say could you please take your jacket off but would you please? what is this we're going to see?
>> this is the new speedo fs3 and this is the cap that goes with it, the and the goggles that go with it, i will show you.
>> why is this new and revolutionary?
>> because this is the first time it's a three-piece system that everything goes together so you buy it, the buy the cap, the goggles, the suit and makes you more hydrodynamic and it has a body stability web which compresses you.
>> we're going to see more of it and talk to you about where you guys are in training as you prepare for london, but first these messages and your local news.
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Speedo has a preorder countdown on their site
www.speedousa.com/.../index.jsp
wonder how much better the suit is and what the improvements are?
Speedo unveils FASTSKIN3
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Okay, here is my .02 and I won't hold back.
This is the biggest turd of a marketing program I've ever seen. I mean really....a system?! How freaking gullible do you think people are (actually, don't answer that)?
1. You have 4 Olympians featured in your new suit and what color are they in? Freakin' Eskimo colors looking like they are going to the WINTER games. What happened to the ole' Red, White and Blue?! Even if it isn't the actually games suit....come on man! (insert voices of guys from ESPN NFL coverage).
2. Those goggles....hideous, need I say more.
3. Cap....wow, its a cap, you wear it on your head.
No wonder Speedo is struggling....you just wasted how many millions on this turd?
TYR, Arena, anyone.....the door is wide open.
I read this in an article somewhere:
"Coughlin said the biggest benefit to her were the new goggles that are fitted with hydroscopic lens and 180 degree peripheral vision, making them look like spider's eyes.
“Well, I'm a backstroker so I can't afford to take a look around and see where my competitors are but with these I can see everything without moving my head,” she said. "
!!!!
I. WANT. NOW! If I have to look like a space elf, fine. Everyone can feel free to rofl @ me.
Also, Speedo's marketing jargon is approaching golf club/tennis racquet/$10,000 carbon fiber bicycle frame levels of absurd performance benefit overstatement combined with plausible deniability and legal-speak.
If you want to have some fun, read product descriptions for high-end audio equipment. Someone telling you that "it sounds better" isn't going to cause you blow 100 grand on a set of speakers, so they have to get creative. :rofl:
Yeah but in backstroke, especially long course and/or outdoors, you need your peripheral vision to keep from running into the lanelines. I wear rather large Speedo Baja goggles for that reason.
Aha!! That must have been how you "saw me coming" in the last 50 of the 200 Fly at the Whidbey Island meet. :)
Only the 1% would even consider buying any of these products. $100 for goggles? Are they nuts?
And $400 for a frickin' jammer!!! Crazy nuts on that one too!! :bitching:
If it was called "FSIII" it would have just been the suit line predecessor for the FSII. But since it's called FS3 as in "fast-skin-three", it is sold as a trio kit. I better order several kit's for my kids as stocking-stuffers this Christmas, just in case their aunt decides to throw another pool party next summer on a weekend.
Aha!! That must have been how you "saw me coming" in the last 50 of the 200 Fly at the Whidbey Island meet. :)
I suppose so. I should mention that another reason I wear Speedo Bajas is that they actually fit my bizarrely misshapen face. Wear what fits ya.
Here's Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps wearing the full get-up
*guffaw!*
All I can say is YYYEEECCCHHH!!!
As with the previous generation of tech suits, they look absolutely AWFUL -and I strongly suspect the pictures have been Photo Shopped to remove some of the "revealing areas" if you know what I mean. :eeew:
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