With two new hydrodynamic race suits coming out (Speedo's Fast Skin II and TYR's Aqua Shift), do you plan on wearing either for a future championship meet? Which do you think you'll choose? Is there anyone considering combing the two (sleeveless Fast Skin II with TYR's Aqua Bands)?
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I love my Tyr Aquapel female short john.
At my level, anything fancier than that would be a waste.
Originally posted by aquageek
I'm not sure how these suits add buoyancy as they are paper thin.
When you break wind, they keep it from escaping. The longer you wear them, the greater the effect.
I'm old n' slow. Spending a few hundred on a suit to maybe drop a couple tenths isn't worth the $$$ for me.
Also I don't agree the suits should be legal. I feel they add buoyancy. But that's anohter thread.
Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com
I thought that the suits were to help you flow through the water. Any floating that comes from them should be accidental, maybe.
Right the suits are designed to flow through the water better. Some areas are smoother than skin/channel water while other areas are designed to catch/create more drag than skin. Thus giving you better gliding & pulling areas.
The added buoyancy should be accidental. But if something adds buoyancy it's supposed to be illegal. Thus my problem with the suits. But maybe it's just me (I don't float) that gains buoyancy when wearing such a suit.
I thought that the suits were to help you flow through the water. Any floating that comes from them should be accidental, maybe. Aren't they suppose to help you move the water back? Also, isn't some drag necessary to move forward. It seems that in Swimming fastest & Colville both say one type of drag is how you move. I am terrible at understanding motion so I can't describe the one that works to move you forward. I;'ve worm Fastskin I and it did seem to be good.
Bill, it says that you live in Houston but are a member of CMSA. How can that be? When I was visiting brother & sisters in Houston, I tried to find the pool where the H2O work out. I couldn't find it. I was really lost. Drove around for almost 2 hours. Ended up inRiver Oaks on a private street with a security guard mad at me. My brother lives n Bellfort Ave. I thought it would be easy to find the school but couldn't
Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com
Bill, it says that you live in Houston but are a member of CMSA. How can that be?
He moved. :D (And didn't change his team.)
USMS places no restriction on which LMSC a person registers in, nor which team a person affiliates with (except that it must be a team registered in that same LMSC).
