Interesting video on floswimming. Sean Hutchison at King Aquatics is having his team wear tech suits during workout: www.floswimming.org/.../84660-everyday-is-suit-day
Looks like Ande is on the cutting edge again.
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I think the drag suit thing is part of the swimming culture - same as swimming 2000 yard+ sets with paddles. Don't think there are many other sports who would think about using something equal to paddles in the respective sports.
About the practical aspects of wearing suits in practice -- just wear your older suit -- you can't really wear a $400 suit in practice all the time.
About the 25 swims issue - I think the biggest issue is that the suits stretch out and you will not have the tight fit any more - something that you may not want in practice to begin with.
Agree about the coach overstating this a little bit - it's almost like he thinks of it like a new swimming stroke developing.
Overall I think it's funny that the entire swimming world is up in arms about the suits giving a few tenth of advantage when in the past swimming has changed many rules to have the same effect - Breaststroke dolphin kick - backstroke turn - breaststroke head under water. There was nobody thinking it was "changing the sport" at that time.
I think the drag suit thing is part of the swimming culture - same as swimming 2000 yard+ sets with paddles. Don't think there are many other sports who would think about using something equal to paddles in the respective sports.
About the practical aspects of wearing suits in practice -- just wear your older suit -- you can't really wear a $400 suit in practice all the time.
About the 25 swims issue - I think the biggest issue is that the suits stretch out and you will not have the tight fit any more - something that you may not want in practice to begin with.
Agree about the coach overstating this a little bit - it's almost like he thinks of it like a new swimming stroke developing.
Overall I think it's funny that the entire swimming world is up in arms about the suits giving a few tenth of advantage when in the past swimming has changed many rules to have the same effect - Breaststroke dolphin kick - backstroke turn - breaststroke head under water. There was nobody thinking it was "changing the sport" at that time.
