Guys: Your Preference: Brief vs. Jammer

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So, in the time I've been a member of this forum I have never seen a debate about this, though I feel it could have be rehashed a thousand times. For practice and regular meets, what are your suit preferences? For practice: I usually do a brief with a drag suit. If I'm out of shape or my quads are hurting, I'll use a jammer for the extra compression. For regular meets: I usually do whatever the team suit is, which has varied over the years. I prefer the brief because of more flexibility. In big competitions*:, I would use a leg skin and if I had the need to buy one today, I'd probably go with a tech jammer. *Regionals, States, Nationals, etc For practice I use primarily speedo endurance products. Regular meets I go for the speedo xtra-life or aqua blade. I used to get a lot of crap for wearing a brief, but now I feel like they're making a comeback. I like to think I converted some people on my high school team. Actually, the only person who really gives me crap anymore are my friends who don't swim and my girlfriend (who does swim). She says the ugliest part of a guy is the upper outside thigh the brief doesn't cover.
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  • My kid's soccer practice is right next to an outdoor pool where a club or HS team practices. All the boys were wearing briefs. I was surprised by that. When I was in HS, the briefs were such a source of ridicule by the rest of the student population that I would have killed for jammers (they had not yet been invented). Due to my upbringing, I can't help but think briefs are goofy and uncool, but somehow kids these days don't have that issue? Maybe swimming is cooler, or maybe I've moved someplace where swimming is more accepted than when I grew up. I wear jammers all the time.
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  • My kid's soccer practice is right next to an outdoor pool where a club or HS team practices. All the boys were wearing briefs. I was surprised by that. When I was in HS, the briefs were such a source of ridicule by the rest of the student population that I would have killed for jammers (they had not yet been invented). Due to my upbringing, I can't help but think briefs are goofy and uncool, but somehow kids these days don't have that issue? Maybe swimming is cooler, or maybe I've moved someplace where swimming is more accepted than when I grew up. I wear jammers all the time.
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