USA Swimming proposes rule limiting suits

Hey thewookiee: Regarding your comments about the purported “stigma” of guys wearing a Speedos (briefs), exactly WHAT is the stigma and WHO is promoting that stigma? Seems there are some kind of puritan fanatical religious zealots trying to start a movement in this country to stigmatize men wearing Speedos. Could it also be that the suit makers themselves are surreptitiously mounting a campaign to stigmatize the wearing of briefs in order to prod people into buying the more expensive suits? Dolphin 2 Let's see, how does Geek start his replies to you? Oh yea, since you know NOTHING about swimming because you don't swim, don't have kids and haven't swam before, you are once again spouting off at the mouth about something you know nothing about. Having swam,still do and being a coach, this stigma isn't something the swimsuit makers are doing. This is something that occurs when boys start to join a team and they say " I have to wear that suit?" Parents and coaches have spent a lot of time talking to kids that the suit isn't embarrassing and they shouldn't be ashamed of wearing a speedo brief at practice or when they would go to meets. The kids though are afraid of their friends or non-friends making fun of how they look wearing the speedo style briefs. When the jammers were first introduced, that took a lot of the fear from kids, esp. new ones to swimming away, because 1) it didn't look like a traditional speedo and 2) it covered more of the body, waist to the knees. This fear/stigma was esp. true among high school age guys. A lot are really sensitive to what people think about them at that age. Now, this stigma/fear doesn't hold true for everyone that has ever come into this sport. But it is there. I have seen it from an age group swimmers, summer league and high school swimmers. This fear/stigma was there way before high tech suits came into the market. But you wouldn't know anything about it since you spend more time telling those of us that know swimming, that have swum, that still do swim or have kids that swim that we are misinformed, uneducated people who only care about sports.

Hey thewookiee: Regarding your comments about the purported “stigma” of guys wearing a Speedos (briefs), exactly WHAT is the stigma and WHO is promoting that stigma? Seems there are some kind of puritan fanatical religious zealots trying to start a movement in this country to stigmatize men wearing Speedos. Could it also be that the suit makers themselves are surreptitiously mounting a campaign to stigmatize the wearing of briefs in order to prod people into buying the more expensive suits? Dolphin 2 Let's see, how does Geek start his replies to you? Oh yea, since you know NOTHING about swimming because you don't swim, don't have kids and haven't swam before, you are once again spouting off at the mouth about something you know nothing about. Having swam,still do and being a coach, this stigma isn't something the swimsuit makers are doing. This is something that occurs when boys start to join a team and they say " I have to wear that suit?" Parents and coaches have spent a lot of time talking to kids that the suit isn't embarrassing and they shouldn't be ashamed of wearing a speedo brief at practice or when they would go to meets. The kids though are afraid of their friends or non-friends making fun of how they look wearing the speedo style briefs. When the jammers were first introduced, that took a lot of the fear from kids, esp. new ones to swimming away, because 1) it didn't look like a traditional speedo and 2) it covered more of the body, waist to the knees. This fear/stigma was esp. true among high school age guys. A lot are really sensitive to what people think about them at that age. Now, this stigma/fear doesn't hold true for everyone that has ever come into this sport. But it is there. I have seen it from an age group swimmers, summer league and high school swimmers. This fear/stigma was there way before high tech suits came into the market. But you wouldn't know anything about it since you spend more time telling those of us that know swimming, that have swum, that still do swim or have kids that swim that we are misinformed, uneducated people who only care about sports.