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.
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Dolphin 2 - Why don't you tell us more about you. Not at a personal level. But what do you do for a living? Do you have children? You write like a well educated person. But you write about things you don't know much about. You tell us the suits don't matter - but you have never tried them. You tell us parents we spend money on swim suits instead of making sure our kids can read.
Like Fort - my kids are athletes. Two swimmers, one diver. All of them are fine students. My oldest son swims as a freshman walkon at a Div 1 university. He has no athletic scholarship money but does have an academic scholarship. I have not bought a $400 suit for any of them although my two swimmers both have had FS-Pros. I don't plan to buy them tech suits any time soon.
I have been around age group swimming a long time. The vast majority of kids and their parents I know care deeply about academics. If you looked at the demographics of age group swimmers you would understand why many of us might say that the illiterate kids are not swimmers.
BTW - these suits are the same price for all sizes.
Dolphin 2 - Why don't you tell us more about you. Not at a personal level. But what do you do for a living? Do you have children? You write like a well educated person. But you write about things you don't know much about. You tell us the suits don't matter - but you have never tried them. You tell us parents we spend money on swim suits instead of making sure our kids can read.
Like Fort - my kids are athletes. Two swimmers, one diver. All of them are fine students. My oldest son swims as a freshman walkon at a Div 1 university. He has no athletic scholarship money but does have an academic scholarship. I have not bought a $400 suit for any of them although my two swimmers both have had FS-Pros. I don't plan to buy them tech suits any time soon.
I have been around age group swimming a long time. The vast majority of kids and their parents I know care deeply about academics. If you looked at the demographics of age group swimmers you would understand why many of us might say that the illiterate kids are not swimmers.
BTW - these suits are the same price for all sizes.
