...at the FCST winter meet in SugarLand, TX. I had previously only worn briefs, but I did try TYR legskins for Nationals in Austin. I was just experimenting and didn't want to drop $300-$500 to find I didn't like the feel, so I bought the FS-II Backstroke suit for $50 on-line.
Didn't feel any faster or sleeker in the water although I did go a PR 22.57 in the 50 free and a respectable 59.97 in the 100 IM.
What was weird is how different I felt in the backstroke, how it felt as if the suit was forcing me to assume a certain body position and I felt myself fighting it ( I had not tested the suit AT ALL prior to the meet so it was shocking).
Would I get that same odd feeling from a normal FS-II or a B70?
Speedo doesn't like to broadcast this, but once every couple hundred thousand FS II backstroke suits, you get one that is possessed. It seems old Hank Ryerson was on the assembly line back in Ought 7, and his attention was momentarily diverted by a poster of Natalie Coughlan doing a SDK, and, well...
To stop the line at that point just to remove some body matter from the fabric would have cost the company a fortune. So the decision was made.
Anyhow, that's probably what causes the sensation of "the suit was forcing me to assume a certain body position."
Poor old Ryerson. God rest his tormented soul.
Speedo doesn't like to broadcast this, but once every couple hundred thousand FS II backstroke suits, you get one that is possessed. It seems old Hank Ryerson was on the assembly line back in Ought 7, and his attention was momentarily diverted by a poster of Natalie Coughlan doing a SDK, and, well...
To stop the line at that point just to remove some body matter from the fabric would have cost the company a fortune. So the decision was made.
Anyhow, that's probably what causes the sensation of "the suit was forcing me to assume a certain body position."
Poor old Ryerson. God rest his tormented soul.
