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.
I think jammers look sillier, personally. My wife got me a Speedo Endurance suit for Christmas. It's one that goes down the leg maybe an inch and has a seam up the front. I'll admit I was skeptical at first, but I have to say it's a really comfortable workout suit.
They make both knee-length (or just shy of that) jammers and something more akin to a "brief". Sounds like you got the latter. I agree that those might be even sillier looking than briefs.
In the case of briefs...yea, the do. The look dorky and feel even worse.
I think jammers look sillier, personally. My wife got me a Speedo Endurance suit for Christmas. It's one that goes down the leg maybe an inch and has a seam up the front. I'll admit I was skeptical at first, but I have to say it's a really comfortable workout suit.
I think jammers look sillier, personally. My wife got me a Speedo Endurance suit for Christmas. It's one that goes down the leg maybe an inch and has a seam up the front. I'll admit I was skeptical at first, but I have to say it's a really comfortable workout suit.
That's all about personal preference. I don't mind drag suits and briefs for practice, but I still think they look dorkier than jammers and they are less comfortable(to me) than a jammer.
I like my jammers to race in but have gotten hooked on the drag suits to practice in.
My wife bought me a Speedo Endurance a couple of years ago and I still have it. They last forever!! However, it could be the most uncomfortable thing I have ever put on.
If you wear briefs then you look like a complete idiot to the 99.9% of the population that aren't competitive swimmers.
back in the day when i was racing bicycles, if you saw someone wearing spandex bike shorts, they most likely needed a bilingual menu at mcdonalds....
And remember that World Champion Russian swimmer that said he prefers "skin" than those new fangle suits.
Please, we are swimmers and not bicycle riders.
I have really gotten a kick out this thread! You won't find us girls obsessing over what type of swimsuit we should or shouldn't wear. :D
Personally, I don't like seeing a man in a brief who is obviously not a serious swimmer. There is just something fundamentally wrong there. Jammers aren't much better in this regard. But, if you're in halfway decent shape -- I think you guys look simply awesome no matter what you wear. :cool:
But, if I had my choice, I would pick briefs over jammers. Of course, my vote doesn't count, but I just had to put in my :2cents: worth.
I wear neither.... There are square cuts suits that are in between the full jammer and the racer. TYR, Speedo, Dolfin, and Aquazone all make them. Arena was the first to make them and they called them the Barge. Many middle age men I sell suits to like them more than either the jammer or the racer. First they give you the feeling of more coverage (modesty). They don't feel constricting on the thighs for you men who have large thighs. That is why I hate jammers. Lastly you don't feel like an old middle age man in a racer (speedo) with your no so in shape body. You got to have a lean mean body to put on a racer....
