Speedo has released their "new and improved" suit. Below is a link to the story at swimming world, with quotes from various swimmers about "how it makes em feel"
www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../17020.asp
As much as I like body suits... I just can't see buying a "new and improved" style until they quit making the older models.
But I bet some 10 year old will have it for a b-c meet before long.
As much as I admire you purists out there, I was lamenting recently the failure of swimming technology to keep up with the advances in my decrepitude.
Why can't I beat my high school times more resoundlingly? What is wrong with suit manufacturers today? They seem to be designing with the idea that there are intrinsic limits on a peri-geriatric's ability to propulse himself through the water (or, in the case of my backstroke, repulse myself.)
I think where Speedo et al have left themselves considerable room for future improvement is addessing not just drag-reduction and muscle vibration dampening technology (the latter seems particularly suspect to this layman, but that's outside the purview here), but also the push-the-ethical-envelope of supplemental body-based power-generation systems.
For example, a recent Reuters story reported: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Talk about a knee-jerk reaction. Scientists in the United States and Canada said on Thursday they have developed a unique device that can be strapped on the knee that exploits the mechanics of human walking to generate a usable supply of electricity.
www.reuters.com/.../idUSN0741464420080207
Why can't Speedo make a suit that harnesses what is now the useless, maybe even retardative, "jiggling" of excess adiposity in swimmers like me, that is to say, our flapping and rippling waves of wool-covered fat stores? I don't think it would take too many rocket scientistis to develop a way of channeling this massive flappage activity into the production of electricity, then use this electricity to power small propellers arranged at strategic intervals along the body suit fabric?
Since it would be my own jiggling fat tissues that are the root of the electricity thusly generated, even fuddy duddies would have to acknowledge that the propellers were fueled under my own power.
Of course, I have not even begun to address the harnessing of natural gas production as further power source for what might someday be known as the Speedo FRTSkin Pro.
I just hope somebody is working on this. I don't have that long left to break 1:30 in the 200 SCY, and to be honest, I have all but given up in my quest for a sub-40 100.
As much as I admire you purists out there, I was lamenting recently the failure of swimming technology to keep up with the advances in my decrepitude.
Why can't I beat my high school times more resoundlingly? What is wrong with suit manufacturers today? They seem to be designing with the idea that there are intrinsic limits on a peri-geriatric's ability to propulse himself through the water (or, in the case of my backstroke, repulse myself.)
I think where Speedo et al have left themselves considerable room for future improvement is addessing not just drag-reduction and muscle vibration dampening technology (the latter seems particularly suspect to this layman, but that's outside the purview here), but also the push-the-ethical-envelope of supplemental body-based power-generation systems.
For example, a recent Reuters story reported: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Talk about a knee-jerk reaction. Scientists in the United States and Canada said on Thursday they have developed a unique device that can be strapped on the knee that exploits the mechanics of human walking to generate a usable supply of electricity.
www.reuters.com/.../idUSN0741464420080207
Why can't Speedo make a suit that harnesses what is now the useless, maybe even retardative, "jiggling" of excess adiposity in swimmers like me, that is to say, our flapping and rippling waves of wool-covered fat stores? I don't think it would take too many rocket scientistis to develop a way of channeling this massive flappage activity into the production of electricity, then use this electricity to power small propellers arranged at strategic intervals along the body suit fabric?
Since it would be my own jiggling fat tissues that are the root of the electricity thusly generated, even fuddy duddies would have to acknowledge that the propellers were fueled under my own power.
Of course, I have not even begun to address the harnessing of natural gas production as further power source for what might someday be known as the Speedo FRTSkin Pro.
I just hope somebody is working on this. I don't have that long left to break 1:30 in the 200 SCY, and to be honest, I have all but given up in my quest for a sub-40 100.
