That's true. But what exists now is the unfortunate mind set that you can ONLY do well with a tech suit (thanks to our commercial friends).
I'll do anything possible to teach my kids differently.+1
I do actually feel a bit sorry for women swimmers now, though, as the current crop of tech suits and coverage still can have an non-trivial impact on their times for adults or near-adult swimmers (e.g., where suit compression matters vs. youth and material over the greater surface area matters). So, I feel sorry for women swimmers (and/or parents like myself of late teenaged swimmers) who can see a benefit from these suits and then do have to fork out $$$.
For men, when they took away the real tech suits / the full body suits and reduced men to jammers, suit technology essentially became irrelevant. Yes, there still is a slight advantage for the techest of suits, but much, much less than in the days of the wonder suits.
I still yearn for a day when they bring back the rubber, full body suits. I'll fork out money for 5 seconds on my 500! Today's jammers might buy me 5 tenths on a 500 ... at best.
That's true. But what exists now is the unfortunate mind set that you can ONLY do well with a tech suit (thanks to our commercial friends).
I'll do anything possible to teach my kids differently.+1
I do actually feel a bit sorry for women swimmers now, though, as the current crop of tech suits and coverage still can have an non-trivial impact on their times for adults or near-adult swimmers (e.g., where suit compression matters vs. youth and material over the greater surface area matters). So, I feel sorry for women swimmers (and/or parents like myself of late teenaged swimmers) who can see a benefit from these suits and then do have to fork out $$$.
For men, when they took away the real tech suits / the full body suits and reduced men to jammers, suit technology essentially became irrelevant. Yes, there still is a slight advantage for the techest of suits, but much, much less than in the days of the wonder suits.
I still yearn for a day when they bring back the rubber, full body suits. I'll fork out money for 5 seconds on my 500! Today's jammers might buy me 5 tenths on a 500 ... at best.
