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.
I'm guessing I'm from the same era as Midas. (Might've been interesting to see how people's ages correlated to their choice of suits?) When I got back into swimming a few years ago, in my late thirties, I was so relieved jammers had been invented. I had no desire to go back to the briefs we wore in high school in the mid-80's. Never liked 'em.
Maybe this is because my association with briefs was not all Mark Spitz and Rowdy Gaines but also all the big-bellied middle-aged men I grew up seeing in them too. Just looked SO wrong. And now there are also images of Borat that have gotten mixed in there too.:afraid: Yikes!
Glad to say my belly hasn't gotten too much bigger yet, now that I'm getting in to the middle-age zone; but unless these deeply ingrained associations somehow get exorcized from my mind, I'll probably be sticking with me jammies just the same.
I'm guessing I'm from the same era as Midas. (Might've been interesting to see how people's ages correlated to their choice of suits?) When I got back into swimming a few years ago, in my late thirties, I was so relieved jammers had been invented. I had no desire to go back to the briefs we wore in high school in the mid-80's. Never liked 'em.
Maybe this is because my association with briefs was not all Mark Spitz and Rowdy Gaines but also all the big-bellied middle-aged men I grew up seeing in them too. Just looked SO wrong. And now there are also images of Borat that have gotten mixed in there too.:afraid: Yikes!
Glad to say my belly hasn't gotten too much bigger yet, now that I'm getting in to the middle-age zone; but unless these deeply ingrained associations somehow get exorcized from my mind, I'll probably be sticking with me jammies just the same.
