Remember, the title of this list is "FINA 2009 List of Approved Swimsuits". It makes no reference to "tech suits" and certainly makes no distinction between tech suits and workout suits. So I assume that if a suit is not on the list, it is not legal, which is what "That Guy" was suggesting.
This is why I was asking if there is some other set of rules being used to determine a suits legality, which would allow training suits at meet. Someone suggested that suits introduced before September 2007 would be allowed. So does that mean that new workout suits are not allowed?
Before you assume that this is obvious and that I am "picking nits", remember that USMS tried to give "clarification" recently on the "two suit" rules in meets and managed to confuse things by stating that you could only wear one suit AND you could wear two suits (a modesty suit underneath a tech suit).
One might argue that this is all "common sense", but I would disagree.
I wholeheartedly agree; the "rulemakers" at FINA are not doing a good job at providing clarity. If you're going to explicitly allow and not allow certain suits, you have to be exhaustive in your lists.
I'm swimming this weekend in a meet that is dually sanctioned USAS and USMS. I was planning on wearing an endurance jammer even before the announcement as it's just a "get some times in LCM" meet for me. I'll report back at least how Arizona Swimming handles this suit issue on my blog (forums.usms.org/blog.php.
Remember, the title of this list is "FINA 2009 List of Approved Swimsuits". It makes no reference to "tech suits" and certainly makes no distinction between tech suits and workout suits. So I assume that if a suit is not on the list, it is not legal, which is what "That Guy" was suggesting.
This is why I was asking if there is some other set of rules being used to determine a suits legality, which would allow training suits at meet. Someone suggested that suits introduced before September 2007 would be allowed. So does that mean that new workout suits are not allowed?
Before you assume that this is obvious and that I am "picking nits", remember that USMS tried to give "clarification" recently on the "two suit" rules in meets and managed to confuse things by stating that you could only wear one suit AND you could wear two suits (a modesty suit underneath a tech suit).
One might argue that this is all "common sense", but I would disagree.
I wholeheartedly agree; the "rulemakers" at FINA are not doing a good job at providing clarity. If you're going to explicitly allow and not allow certain suits, you have to be exhaustive in your lists.
I'm swimming this weekend in a meet that is dually sanctioned USAS and USMS. I was planning on wearing an endurance jammer even before the announcement as it's just a "get some times in LCM" meet for me. I'll report back at least how Arizona Swimming handles this suit issue on my blog (forums.usms.org/blog.php.
