I've been giggling about this all morning! Many of the young swimmers from my pool are attending the BYU swim camps starting this week. One of the young guys who always wears brief (racer) style swim suits told me that he isn't allowed to where them at the camp. I pulled up the info on the camp and the info packet does say "no Speedos or bikini briefs are allowed for male participants". I'm sorry, but jammers are no less revealing than briefs! If anything they are more so - in my opinion. I can understand a modest dress code at BYU, but swimmers are so use to seeing each other in these types of suits. I would love to know the thinking behind this dress code? :lmao:
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To quote a Forestry Service friend 'Where there's smoke, there's probably an idiot with matches'
Paul
The difference here is that forest fires serve a purpose.
To quote a Forestry Service friend 'Where there's smoke, there's probably an idiot with matches'
But still, that doesn't answer the fundamental question, what EXACTLY do you get out of harping on the tech suit 'craze'? I'm sure that this question, among many, many, many others that have been posed to you directly, will also go unanswered.
Put it simply: Je suis finis avec vous
Paul
Hey Pwolf66
You have a point there.
It's just that I find that this suit technology thing is turning into an object of ripe satire on the idiosyncrasies of society itself like people buying gas guzzling SUVs (they can't afford to drive anymore), the Bush Administration, and the sub prime real estate bust.
As for being a troll on the subject of tech suit bashing, the important question is who opened up this can of worms in the first place??? :dunno:
Dolphin 2
Hey Jayhawk
You aren't suggesting that Speedo, Tyr, Nike, etc. incorporate all of those features into a tech suit are you??? :joker:
Not even NASA was able to do that. That was the one thing the astronauts hated about long moon walks. Being on the surface of the moon in a bulky spacesuit for 8 or 10 hours presented quite a challenge. For "solid waste" management, the best NASA could come up with was diapers worn inside the spacesuits.
The Japanese TOTO company probably doesn't produce this product, designed for American-sized behinds (and rated to withstand 2000 lbs):
www.greatjohn.com/Product1.html
It's almost like shooting fish in a barrel when you make another uneducated statement like the one above. If you don't think the materials, innovation (like it or not), engineering and investment in these are technology, well then you don't really understand technology. Then again, you don't swim competitively and have never been in one of these suits in the water.
Wow - not a swimmer, no competitive background, never been in the water in one, yet fully qualified to preach to us about what folks should wear.
FYI - you have zero history in sports to support your assertion the tech suit craze will go away. It hasn't gone away in a single other sport. Golf, tennis, basketball, cycling, baseball, etc have all had a major surge in technology in the last 25 years and it hasn't done anything but get stronger and stronger. Swimming is just the newest sport to the game, and not really new at all, well over a decade now. Sports and technology are now as coupled as, well, Fort and her pimped out Dodge Caravan XCH (extra cup holders).
Hey Aquageek
Seems that using the word “Technology” to describe a FastskinII or an LZR is carrying things a wee bit to the extreme.
A so called swimmer’s “Tech Suit” is just a glorified (and highly expensive) reinvention of the girdle or the corset. I’ve looked up the words girdle and corset in the dictionary and neither of the definitions refer to them as being form of “Technology”. :shakeshead:
Girdle:
education.yahoo.com/.../girdle
Corset:
education.yahoo.com/.../corset;_ylt=Arav_jV8r9Ng7HJrCvkkR2gZvskF
However, if there is a new development that can enable someone with a Bob or Barbara Beerbelly physique to swim faster, then I am certain that most people would humorously refer to it as a form of "technology". :agree:
Dolphin 2
Evolution exists... look we went from briefs to nasa in less then 6 pages...lol
so really, ive never been a big tech suit person but how long do they normally last (and still feel "better")
hey at least FINA did not ban all suits to cut out any arguments...
...FYI - you have zero history in sports to support your assertion the tech suit craze will go away. It hasn't gone away in a single other sport. Golf, tennis, basketball, cycling, baseball, etc have all had a major surge in technology in the last 25 years and it hasn't done anything but get stronger and stronger. Swimming is just the newest sport to the game, and not really new at all, well over a decade now. Sports and technology are now as coupled as, well, Fort and her pimped out Dodge Caravan XCH (extra cup holders).
Geek, you had better sell that fancy-schmancy carbon bicycle of yours before the bubble bursts. You're better off on a steel bike with shifters mounted on the down tube and only 10 speeds. Who really needs those extra 10 gears anyway?
Oops, that may have been a thread jack. Sorry.:-)
Geek, you had better sell that fancy-schmancy carbon bicycle of yours before the bubble bursts. You're better off on a steel bike with shifters mounted on the down tube and only 10 speeds. Who really needs those extra 10 gears anyway?
Oops, that may have been a thread jack. Sorry.:-)
I want to go on record as saying that I own a used bike, that I got very affordably. It's not a full carbon bike. As I was passed by hundreds and hundreds of bikers last weekend, I realized that paying a few thousand more for a bike really won't do much more than boost my ego.
There is a certain peace that comes from winning wearing/riding ratty old gear, which does nullify all my previous arguments, I do realize.
Hey - this thread is really an example of social evolution.
Actually, this thread has been mostly about people speaking out of their backsides without any real qualifications to do so.
