Swimmers,
I am contemplating which suit to buy. I am mainly a breaststroker and have been looking at the Fastskin Pro vs the Fastskin II. Anyone with any experience as to which one is better. Any problems with either of these? The last competition suit I wore was in 1995, a "paper suit".
I have seen some of you state that you swim faster in the B70 as opposed to other suits. Anyone care to state how much faster? And faster than which suit? I can't imagine paying $500 for a suit, but I might start imagining for a few seconds.
I honestly don't know that I have. In a recent meet, I bettered by 200 *** time by 2 seconds compared to the time I swam last year in a pair of FS Pro Jammers (also I was shaved for that meet). But there are a lot of reasons for that improvement outside of the suit. For example, last year's time was the first time I has swum the 200 *** in over 15 years and so my strategy was a little off. Also, I had no competition in that race (due to vastly underestimating my seed time), and thus nobody pushed me. This year, I swam it coming out of my taper for the hour swim, had real competition and had a few more 200 *** races under my belt.
At my next meet (still 2 months off) I plan on wearing the jammers and shaving again to see how I do... Outside of Karen, I'm not sure many people would experience multiple second drops per 50 by donning the suit...
I have seen some of you state that you swim faster in the B70 as opposed to other suits. Anyone care to state how much faster? And faster than which suit? I can't imagine paying $500 for a suit, but I might start imagining for a few seconds.
I honestly don't know that I have. In a recent meet, I bettered by 200 *** time by 2 seconds compared to the time I swam last year in a pair of FS Pro Jammers (also I was shaved for that meet). But there are a lot of reasons for that improvement outside of the suit. For example, last year's time was the first time I has swum the 200 *** in over 15 years and so my strategy was a little off. Also, I had no competition in that race (due to vastly underestimating my seed time), and thus nobody pushed me. This year, I swam it coming out of my taper for the hour swim, had real competition and had a few more 200 *** races under my belt.
At my next meet (still 2 months off) I plan on wearing the jammers and shaving again to see how I do... Outside of Karen, I'm not sure many people would experience multiple second drops per 50 by donning the suit...
