hey guys,
I'm seriously thinking about getting and trying the FS II Legskins
http://tinyurl.com/3ydxe8
I've currently use the hineck but I've noticed many fast swimmers wear legskins in fly and back
I also have fastskin jammers in my swim bag
to throw on for fast swims in practice
http://tinyurl.com/274gll
(it seems to make a difference versus my training suit)
What's your opinion about which works best?
briefs, jammers, legskin, kneeskin or the hineck?
Why?
Ande
For me, what I would do is take the price of the suit and divide it by the number of seconds I could possibly save over the life of the suit. (Similar to my comparison of the time it takes to shave down -v- the time savings that gives).
I've heard most of these suits only get ~5 meets, maybe 5 events per meet, and we'll give a generous 2 second saving per event. That gives you a max 50 sec savings (5 x 5 x 2). For a $200 suit, the cost is $4 per second. Of course if the benefit is 1/2 second per event, that cost is far higher ($16), or if the life of the suit isn't up to my estimates.
Is $4 per second worth it to you? Only you have that answer. Personally, I can think of at least 100 things I'd rather do if I had $200 burning a hole in my pocket.
To the question, is $4 per second worth it to me, no, not at the moment. Other sports get much pricier than swimming. One time on a triathlon forum, someone asked if anyone could help him rationalize the expense of a pair of Zipp wheels. Zipps save you about 3 minutes over 112 miles (the ironman bike distance). I told him I'd gladly do it for my standard motivational speaker rate of $500 per minute. It wasn't an unfair rate, since he apparently had $1500 lying around and wanted to blow it on something...
For me, what I would do is take the price of the suit and divide it by the number of seconds I could possibly save over the life of the suit. (Similar to my comparison of the time it takes to shave down -v- the time savings that gives).
I've heard most of these suits only get ~5 meets, maybe 5 events per meet, and we'll give a generous 2 second saving per event. That gives you a max 50 sec savings (5 x 5 x 2). For a $200 suit, the cost is $4 per second. Of course if the benefit is 1/2 second per event, that cost is far higher ($16), or if the life of the suit isn't up to my estimates.
Is $4 per second worth it to you? Only you have that answer. Personally, I can think of at least 100 things I'd rather do if I had $200 burning a hole in my pocket.
To the question, is $4 per second worth it to me, no, not at the moment. Other sports get much pricier than swimming. One time on a triathlon forum, someone asked if anyone could help him rationalize the expense of a pair of Zipp wheels. Zipps save you about 3 minutes over 112 miles (the ironman bike distance). I told him I'd gladly do it for my standard motivational speaker rate of $500 per minute. It wasn't an unfair rate, since he apparently had $1500 lying around and wanted to blow it on something...
