www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../19679.asp
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.
Parents
Former Member
Yee Gads –I read somewhere on the board that now parents are spending big $$$ buying so called “tech suits” for their kids??? The adult version of the LZR lists for $450 and I bet the child’s version is a rip off too. Sounds like the parents have a “Keep up with the Jones’s” complex.
The U.S. is a free country and people can pee away their money anyway they want, but this is a blatant example of a complete lack of common sense. I bet the parents are putting their kid’s suit purchases on the credit cards too. That’s just how the country got into the current economic mess. Even MAD Magazine couldn’t think up a crazier idea than this!!! :bliss:
By the way, why are parents spending so much time and money on swim suits (and athletic activities in general) when the U.S. literacy rate (especially in math and science) is the lowest in the industrialized world? :badday:
Of course these parents will claim that their children are participating in athletics and they are still making stellar grades -but it’s “someone else’s” kids who are flunking in school. :blah:
Dolphin 2
Yee Gads –I read somewhere on the board that now parents are spending big $$$ buying so called “tech suits” for their kids??? The adult version of the LZR lists for $450 and I bet the child’s version is a rip off too. Sounds like the parents have a “Keep up with the Jones’s” complex.
The U.S. is a free country and people can pee away their money anyway they want, but this is a blatant example of a complete lack of common sense. I bet the parents are putting their kid’s suit purchases on the credit cards too. That’s just how the country got into the current economic mess. Even MAD Magazine couldn’t think up a crazier idea than this!!! :bliss:
By the way, why are parents spending so much time and money on swim suits (and athletic activities in general) when the U.S. literacy rate (especially in math and science) is the lowest in the industrialized world? :badday:
Of course these parents will claim that their children are participating in athletics and they are still making stellar grades -but it’s “someone else’s” kids who are flunking in school. :blah:
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