briefs, jammer, legskin, kneeskin or hineck

Hi Chris, I guestimated the amounts, using my workout times with and without plus conversations with swimmers and coaches "more for some people" the type of people who benefit more than others are: 1) people with jiggly fat and loose skin, fastskins hold it in and create a better surface for the body to slide through the water, let's call it the "aqua girdle" effect 2) poor kickers the leg skin provides some floatation which allows better body position with less effort one week I might do an experiment drag suit vs training suit vs jammers vs leg skin vs hi neck where I'd do the same warm up each day then do: 3 fast 25 frees for time with the same rest between each to see where my times fall for each type of suit pretty soon I also hope to test: 1) 25 bk with 4 SDKs 2) 25 bk with 8 SDK's 3) 25 bk with 12 SDK's & 2) 25 SDK from a back start to see how the times fall Ande, I'm curious: where did you get this range of numbers? And what factors determine if it is "more for some people?" I would assume (but may be wrong) that if hineck's make this kind of difference, the range would be hineck > kneeskin > legskin > jammers. (I'm also curious if the effect scales linearly with distance or not. Science-geek musings, I guess.) I have a friend -- Ryan Bradley, a very fast and fit masters swimmer -- who used FS jammers in the morning trials of a meet and (borrowed) FS legskins in the evening finals. He said he did not feel any difference between the two. Some of his times improved from the morning, some did not. Chris

Hi Chris, I guestimated the amounts, using my workout times with and without plus conversations with swimmers and coaches "more for some people" the type of people who benefit more than others are: 1) people with jiggly fat and loose skin, fastskins hold it in and create a better surface for the body to slide through the water, let's call it the "aqua girdle" effect 2) poor kickers the leg skin provides some floatation which allows better body position with less effort one week I might do an experiment drag suit vs training suit vs jammers vs leg skin vs hi neck where I'd do the same warm up each day then do: 3 fast 25 frees for time with the same rest between each to see where my times fall for each type of suit pretty soon I also hope to test: 1) 25 bk with 4 SDKs 2) 25 bk with 8 SDK's 3) 25 bk with 12 SDK's & 2) 25 SDK from a back start to see how the times fall Ande, I'm curious: where did you get this range of numbers? And what factors determine if it is "more for some people?" I would assume (but may be wrong) that if hineck's make this kind of difference, the range would be hineck > kneeskin > legskin > jammers. (I'm also curious if the effect scales linearly with distance or not. Science-geek musings, I guess.) I have a friend -- Ryan Bradley, a very fast and fit masters swimmer -- who used FS jammers in the morning trials of a meet and (borrowed) FS legskins in the evening finals. He said he did not feel any difference between the two. Some of his times improved from the morning, some did not. Chris