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The most substantial change, of course, is that suits would no longer be allowed to extend past the knee.
My personal opinion is this is sort of an arbitrary change. What really should be changed--if anything--is what types of materials are allowed and maybe testing protocol to approve a suit. I don't really think requiring suits to end at the knees would affect much.
I weigh more heavily the advantages of growing the sport over allowing the kids with spendy parents to wear an expensive suit.
I'll try to be more civil now. By attempting to level the playing field what you are really talking about is taking away things from kids/families that can afford or chose to spend their money on the more expensive aspects of the sport. How is that any more fair? There's no such thing as fair in sports.
I weigh more heavily the advantages of growing the sport over allowing the kids with spendy parents to wear an expensive suit.
I'll try to be more civil now. By attempting to level the playing field what you are really talking about is taking away things from kids/families that can afford or chose to spend their money on the more expensive aspects of the sport. How is that any more fair? There's no such thing as fair in sports.
