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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Hey Thewookiee
Responding to your rather sarcastic comment, I
I'm sorry that my criticism of tech suits has gotten all you hard core competitive swimmers in such a tizzy. But you leave yourselves wide open by being so hostile to people who disagree with you.
Dolphin 2
If you think that is sarcastic...you ain't seen nothing yet.
If you notice, people that are hardcore swimmers have disagreed on the suits on this forum and on this thread. But these swimmers actually know something about the tech suits through experience...something you don't.
If you didn't come across as foolish in your statements and presented actual proof to back-up your opinions, then people wouldn't treat you as they do. But, you have no first hand knowledge of the suits. Very little knowledge of swimming and you make stupid statements about swimming as a sport, about the tech suits. Heck, you even jump onto people about how they raise their kids, when you haven't even tried doing that yourself.
No one has problems with people that disagreeing with them. But when a person continues to make stupid, uneducated comments about the sport, about tech suits, etc., they are going to get a deserved harsh response.
No one ever said buying a tech suit is an athletic skill. But knowing how to swim is and how to swim fast with a tech suit or brief is a higher skill.
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Former Member
Hey Thewookiee
Responding to your rather sarcastic comment, I
I'm sorry that my criticism of tech suits has gotten all you hard core competitive swimmers in such a tizzy. But you leave yourselves wide open by being so hostile to people who disagree with you.
Dolphin 2
If you think that is sarcastic...you ain't seen nothing yet.
If you notice, people that are hardcore swimmers have disagreed on the suits on this forum and on this thread. But these swimmers actually know something about the tech suits through experience...something you don't.
If you didn't come across as foolish in your statements and presented actual proof to back-up your opinions, then people wouldn't treat you as they do. But, you have no first hand knowledge of the suits. Very little knowledge of swimming and you make stupid statements about swimming as a sport, about the tech suits. Heck, you even jump onto people about how they raise their kids, when you haven't even tried doing that yourself.
No one has problems with people that disagreeing with them. But when a person continues to make stupid, uneducated comments about the sport, about tech suits, etc., they are going to get a deserved harsh response.
No one ever said buying a tech suit is an athletic skill. But knowing how to swim is and how to swim fast with a tech suit or brief is a higher skill.