Looks like Masters swimmers have decided on the best new suit available right now - probably a combination of price / value / and length of use.
I am at the Long Beach SCM - west coast "nationals" and the winner is: The Blue Seventy by a ratio of about 50 to 1 over the LZR.
People are either wearing one of the older suits (some of them are to be had for $25) or a Blue Seventy. There is still a bit of "confusion" over which Blue70 to get - I saw quite a few of the open water models. But I think I have seen a total of 3 (including mine) LZRs at the entire meet. No kidding Speedo wants the coaches to ban the Blue70.
Personal comparison - 50 Free - Blue 70 = 23.25 /// LZR = 23.44 (but I had a poor dive and a poor turn - I would still rank them about even)
My non-statistically representative sample seemed to indicate B70 as the suit of choice for record-breaking swims here at Colonies Zones. We got treated to a particularly spectacular 100 backstroke today, with Michael Ross in the full-length and Chris Stevenson in the knee length suit. Both guys obliterated Chris's old national (& I think world) record. Ross seemed to obliterate any record, though, when he jumped in ... though I haven't seen the Long Beach results yet.
Having said that, while I saw a lot of very fast swims in the B70, the suit didn't seem to have as much widespread use as I had seen at the Ron Johnson meet a few weeks back in Tempe.
I swam in the B70 again and was singularly very happy with it. I've never tried on a LZR, but I can easily get the B70 on in a few minutes without any major contortions.
My non-statistically representative sample seemed to indicate B70 as the suit of choice for record-breaking swims here at Colonies Zones. We got treated to a particularly spectacular 100 backstroke today, with Michael Ross in the full-length and Chris Stevenson in the knee length suit. Both guys obliterated Chris's old national (& I think world) record. Ross seemed to obliterate any record, though, when he jumped in ... though I haven't seen the Long Beach results yet.
Having said that, while I saw a lot of very fast swims in the B70, the suit didn't seem to have as much widespread use as I had seen at the Ron Johnson meet a few weeks back in Tempe.
I swam in the B70 again and was singularly very happy with it. I've never tried on a LZR, but I can easily get the B70 on in a few minutes without any major contortions.
