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.
Former Member
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.
Mr. Mrcnwmn
With reference to your second paragraph above, it always seems the discussion of jammers VS briefs for swimming (and short shorts for other sports) eventually evolves into a discussion of their perceived expression (or association) with male homosexual tendencies.
Swimmer’s briefs and short shorts have been around for at least 60 years without any problem until the so called “moral majority” crowd launched a “back door” campaign to try to stamp out the gay movement by classifying certain styles of clothing as being “Fetish Wear”.
This is an example of some of the anti-speedo rhetoric:
www.askmen.com/.../3.html
Accordingly, some people now want to embrace the Islamic approach and jammers and boardie shorts are now the equivalent of the “Male Abaya or Burqa” in America and their idea is that getting rid of purportedly “Gay Oriented” clothing styles for men will somehow cleanse society of the purported evils of the gay movement.
Frankly, this is nothing but a form of voodoo psychology and an exercise in complete absurdity and futility. From all the scientific research done for the past 40 years, a person’s rating on the Gay VS Str8 sexuality spectrum is an inherent (and a rather solidified characteristic) of one's personality. And whether a guy wears a speedo or jammers isn’t going to make a dime's worth of difference either.
So could we just get rid of the whole idiotic idea of classifying men’s swim suits as to their potential for fetish wear and stop using people's preference as a social/sexual engineering tool? :confused:
D2
Wow, that's creepy.
You got that one right. A creepy post from a creepier person. And I agree with the poster before d2...I hate briefs. They do look dorky
Way to resurrect an ancient thread guys ...
Another reason for jammers not listed here is that they can provide some, uh, compression. That motion control can improve swimming speed for any thunder-thighed swimmers.
Briefs and jammers, both are fine as long as they are in good repair and cover what they are supposed to cover.
You got that one right. A creepy post from a creepier person. And I agree with the poster before d2...I hate briefs. They do look dorky
Clearly, the "back door" methods of the "moral majority" have had an impact on you.
:)
Clearly, the "back door" methods of the "moral majority" have had an impact on you.
:)
Yea, that's definitly it...living here in the bible belt as made me afraid of wearing briefs, even though I have done so for years at practice, high school, age group and college meets. :angel:
If you wear briefs then you look like a complete idiot to the 99.9% of the population that aren't competitive swimmers.
Only if they don't see you swim.I think there is a perception by the general public that it's OK to wear a brief if you are a serious swimmer.Doesn't Phelps wear one in his Subway commercial.
