Ban the tech suits?

Here's where I stand on the tech suit issue: 1) Disqualify swimmers who wear 2 or more suits 2) Suit limitations in summer league meets, age group meets (12 or 14 and under) and high school meets 3) allow tech suits for elite swimmers and masters swimmers 4) beef up FINAs suit testing and approval process I can get behind this. Now, the big question is, how do we get sanity across the swimming federations globally? Is there a way to get Ande drafted and placed as FINA president?

Here's where I stand on the tech suit issue: 1) Disqualify swimmers who wear 2 or more suits Specify in the offical swimming rules that wearing more than one suit in a race results in disqualification. Enforce it at meets. Unfortunately this will probably mean no training suit under a tech suit, though I don't have a problem with swimmers wearing a brief. It might be reasonable to allow this for modesty reasons as well. In super elite meets when swimmers place high or break records, two officials should follow the swimmer to the locker room where the swimmer strips and submits their suit for inspection and approval. (Drug testing officials show up unannounced and are required to observe athletes produce a specimen for drug testing, suit testing seems reasonable) 2) Require Suit limitations in summer league meets, age group meets (12 or 14 and under) and high school meets Let's keep swimming affordable for parents and level the playing field for young swimmers or we might lose generations of future swimmers to more affordable sports. Draw the line somewhere reasonable: maybe jammers for boys and traditional suits for girls. The idea is to keep expensive suits out of age group and high school swimming. Make age group swimming about the swimmer not which suit daddy can afford. These are tough economic times, parents shouldn't have to shell out $300, $400 and $500 for fragile suits for growing children. 3) allow tech suits for elite swimmers and masters swimmers allow tech suits when swimmers reach a certain level of excellence. sectionals, junior nationals, nationals & NCAA Require that suits must be on the market for anyone to buy months before competitions, disallow custom made suits allow elite and masters swimmers to wear the following kinds of suits + shoulder to ankle, + shoulder to knee, + leg skins, + jammers, and + traditional suits disallow suits that cover arms allow blue seventy Nero Comps, Speedo LZRs, Tyr Tracer Rise, and similar suits made by other providers 4) Beef up FINAs suit testing and approval process

lol. Hadn't thought of the porn problem. :afraid: And we know how Stud feels about that ... What do I feel about it. If any female needs my help getting into a B70 I will gladly suffer the visual affront of the locker room. :D I don't get the "can't get the cat back in the bag" stuff, sure you can. You just make it the rules, and ignre the crying. Remember too, that it won't make a difference because "it isn't the suits, it's the person wearing them! Right? So the "suit" records will fall in time... If the cat won't go back in the bag...club it on the head, throw it in a burlap sack, and drop it off a bridge...job done! Solutions may not always be pleasant or make everyone happy, but there are there if you look for them...:2cents:

If I were at the helm in Adidas, I would be picking the phone up to FINA and telling them: sort this out, act fast or we are gone. To which FINA should reply, "Why don't you just make a better suit?"

NCAA decides to ban double tech-suits. Including briefs worn underneath the tech suit (the latter decision is ridiculous IMO). www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../19828.asp "Scenario 3: Swimmer A, who has already qualified with an A-Standard time for the 200 freestyle, gets up on the block to swim that event wearing a lycra bathing suit with an old, torn, nylon tank suit over it. Ruling: Unless the swimmer removes the outer "drag" suit prior to the event, and swims with only one suit, their performance would be disqualified in that event." :rofl:

Whatever I think about tech suits,this guy seems like a pompous:censor::censor: Gotta agree with you on that. Blue Seventy is just trying to sell swimsuits like everybody else and it seems like they've come up with a very desirable design. Somehow this makes them evil?

NCAA decides to ban double tech-suits. Including briefs worn underneath the tech suit (the latter decision is ridiculous IMO). www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../19828.asp

The latest screed from Craig Lord: Whatever I think about tech suits,this guy seems like a pompous:censor::censor:Just because B-70 isn't kissing up to the federations,and Arena has been caught with there pants down,he thinks they should be banned,but Speedo(who seems to have "cheated"with FINAs blessing) is given a free ride.What a hypocrite.

In 2000, FINA stated that the bodysuits(fastskins, aquablades, adidas suits) were not devices. That essential started the ball rolling. I don't want the suits banned or even restricted so that they can't cover shoulder to ankles but there probably does need to be some guidelines set in place about the fabric used in them.

What about the people that wear a 2nd drag suit for rinky-dink meets? What about folks who wear a suit under their jammers/legs/kneeskins/full body suits not only for extra support (both genders have body parts that tend to flop around :bouncing:), but also for ease of change and for lack of scaring locker room friends with "the porn areas?" Not everyone is comfortable sitting in a crowded locker room buck nekked trying to get a suit on with the goods hanging out for all to see - or walking into said situation. lol. Hadn't thought of the porn problem. :afraid: And we know how Stud feels about that ... Can a swimmer be limited to one technical suit then? Or is that unworkable?