OK I was just in the absorbent towel thread and after reading the post that reminded me of the Sammy inventor...
I was wondering what are some of the coolest swimming inventions? Now, not the fads, but all the other stuff...
Sammy towel
goggles
lycra
keep going I know there is a lot more...
Shall I throw a challenge down as question if the new shark skin body suits are not all that they are cracked up to be? Have they been around long enough to have an impact on the sport yet? Are they a fad or the next wave of technology for swimming...
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Regarding prescription goggles:
I use them. Great things!
You can get prescription goggles that are 100% accurate to your prescription through your vision service provider, but you'll pay an arm and a leg for them, and from everything I could find, they are HUGE on your face.
But you can also get ones from catalogues like Kiefer.com that are very reasonably priced. The problem is that they only measure in "diopters" and are therefore not likely to be very accurate (and also won't take into account things like astigmatism, which is a major issue for my vision correction.) So in my case they only correct about half my vision needs. It's good enough that I can see the pace clock from any lane in the pool now, and I can see BUBBLES! (Being able to see the clock is really all that matters to me... Before prescription goggles I could only BARELY see the pace clock from the first two lanes.)
Still, at about $19 bucks a pair, getting half way there is barely more expensive than just buying a regular pair of goggles anyway.
FYI, you can get 100% vision correction simply by wearing contacts and regular goggles, but I have never in my life been able to work up the guts to put foreign objects into my eyes deliberately. I get the willies just thinking about it now. We all have our particular wussiness, and this is one of mine. I'll thank everyone in advance not to taunt me about it! :) :)
Regarding prescription goggles:
I use them. Great things!
You can get prescription goggles that are 100% accurate to your prescription through your vision service provider, but you'll pay an arm and a leg for them, and from everything I could find, they are HUGE on your face.
But you can also get ones from catalogues like Kiefer.com that are very reasonably priced. The problem is that they only measure in "diopters" and are therefore not likely to be very accurate (and also won't take into account things like astigmatism, which is a major issue for my vision correction.) So in my case they only correct about half my vision needs. It's good enough that I can see the pace clock from any lane in the pool now, and I can see BUBBLES! (Being able to see the clock is really all that matters to me... Before prescription goggles I could only BARELY see the pace clock from the first two lanes.)
Still, at about $19 bucks a pair, getting half way there is barely more expensive than just buying a regular pair of goggles anyway.
FYI, you can get 100% vision correction simply by wearing contacts and regular goggles, but I have never in my life been able to work up the guts to put foreign objects into my eyes deliberately. I get the willies just thinking about it now. We all have our particular wussiness, and this is one of mine. I'll thank everyone in advance not to taunt me about it! :) :)
