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.
I think it is easy to get derailed by needing to respond to Dolphin 2s lack of information instead of the topic.I don't think anyone should be banned from the forum for ignorance,but sometimes I think it is best to just ignore someone rather than rise to the bait.My favorite saying,which has stood me well in many situations,is"Don't wrestle with pigs,you just get dirty and the pigs love it."
By the way,I don't mind using my real name on this forum.
You have a stronger will than I Allen! I...cannot...help...myself!!!
Up until the past 10 years (before the tabloid media started making an issue of men wearing Speedos), here in California practically all guys were wearing briefs or "trunks" (plain gym shorts) on the deck at public pools, pools in apartment complexes, and on the beaches too.
So, admittedly, I only lived in California for a relatively short time - 1990 through 1996, but those six years were spent on and around the beaches of Southern California (and a couple of apartment complex swimming pools), but the only people I ever saw wearing Speedos at the beach were European tourists and tubby old guys with too much gold jewelry and a good tan! I would say that most of the male beach going population weared board shorts!
Okay, I got that out of my system!
Hey Leslie, you know you want to try out two B70s!
I think it is easy to get derailed by needing to respond to Dolphin 2s lack of information instead of the topic.I don't think anyone should be banned from the forum for ignorance,but sometimes I think it is best to just ignore someone rather than rise to the bait.My favorite saying,which has stood me well in many situations,is"Don't wrestle with pigs,you just get dirty and the pigs love it."
By the way,I don't mind using my real name on this forum.
You have a stronger will than I Allen! I...cannot...help...myself!!!
Up until the past 10 years (before the tabloid media started making an issue of men wearing Speedos), here in California practically all guys were wearing briefs or "trunks" (plain gym shorts) on the deck at public pools, pools in apartment complexes, and on the beaches too.
So, admittedly, I only lived in California for a relatively short time - 1990 through 1996, but those six years were spent on and around the beaches of Southern California (and a couple of apartment complex swimming pools), but the only people I ever saw wearing Speedos at the beach were European tourists and tubby old guys with too much gold jewelry and a good tan! I would say that most of the male beach going population weared board shorts!
Okay, I got that out of my system!
Hey Leslie, you know you want to try out two B70s!
