I am considering purchasing Speedo jammers but I am accustomed to the brief style. I need feedback on the benefits of jammers. My main concern is that jammers will pinch my legs at the base. I mean people do have different leg girths I imagine. Please give me any good and bad opinions of jammers before I plop any money down on them.
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Are we talking about fabric and cost, or are we talking about style of bathing suit? I don't get it.
Anyone who thinks that briefs look better than jammers is out of their minds. I hated briefs when I was in high school (20 years ago) and was extremely happy to buy my first pair of jammers. If you think that jammers look dorky you might be right, but briefs are the (pardon the expression) gayest looking piece of clothing I've ever seen (or worn) in my life. The only people who look even half way decent in briefs are people with great abs and great thighs. One of which, I am not.
If you really think briefs are faster... I don't know what to say to you. I've got hair on my legs. Not tons, but enough to cause drag. The extra bit of drag a jammer may have is negated by the extra drag my leg hair would cause when exposed by a brief.
Binding? I've had some really bad rashes with briefs. I've had no problems with my jammers. They're as comfortable as comfortable can be (though, as I said, the fastskins are tight at the knee). If you don't like the way they fit - don't wear them. That goes for any clothing.
It sounds like some people in this thread want someone to say that jammers are faster so you can argue with them. Fine then: Given the hair on your legs, jammers are faster than briefs. Otherwise the difference is negligible, and I'll bet hard-cash that you'll notice no quantifiable difference in your time in an actual race.
Are we talking about fabric and cost, or are we talking about style of bathing suit? I don't get it.
Anyone who thinks that briefs look better than jammers is out of their minds. I hated briefs when I was in high school (20 years ago) and was extremely happy to buy my first pair of jammers. If you think that jammers look dorky you might be right, but briefs are the (pardon the expression) gayest looking piece of clothing I've ever seen (or worn) in my life. The only people who look even half way decent in briefs are people with great abs and great thighs. One of which, I am not.
If you really think briefs are faster... I don't know what to say to you. I've got hair on my legs. Not tons, but enough to cause drag. The extra bit of drag a jammer may have is negated by the extra drag my leg hair would cause when exposed by a brief.
Binding? I've had some really bad rashes with briefs. I've had no problems with my jammers. They're as comfortable as comfortable can be (though, as I said, the fastskins are tight at the knee). If you don't like the way they fit - don't wear them. That goes for any clothing.
It sounds like some people in this thread want someone to say that jammers are faster so you can argue with them. Fine then: Given the hair on your legs, jammers are faster than briefs. Otherwise the difference is negligible, and I'll bet hard-cash that you'll notice no quantifiable difference in your time in an actual race.
