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)
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I bet somebody has already done a meet in a non-legal suit. I think there is 1mm neoprene suit out there with legs only. You could easily wear that and a any other suit over it - nobody would ever know.
Although - let's face it - there are probably many more advantages ways to cheat for Masters swimmers.
But for the Olympic swimmers -- there will be a SUIT CHECK at the next Olympics, if not earlier. How do you know - that somebody did not fill the inside of that Blue 70 with neoprene ?
I bet somebody has already done a meet in a non-legal suit. I think there is 1mm neoprene suit out there with legs only. You could easily wear that and a any other suit over it - nobody would ever know.
Although - let's face it - there are probably many more advantages ways to cheat for Masters swimmers.
But for the Olympic swimmers -- there will be a SUIT CHECK at the next Olympics, if not earlier. How do you know - that somebody did not fill the inside of that Blue 70 with neoprene ?
