WTF?
www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../21392.asp
I guess this means that "anything goes" in masters, unless your national federation places its own limitations on approved suits.
I think anybody who owns a B70 or other tech suit certainly does consider masters swimming to be a serious competitive organization.
It is as serious (possibly more) than any other adult athletic venture. When you've got (admittedly a few) of the elite Masters competing at Trials, Grand Prix's, etc. and (more) with aspirations to do so, you're in the serious competitive zone. While many of us might not train as much as we'd like to or as we could when we're younger, those competitive fires are stoked pretty high when many (most?) of us are on the blocks at a meet.
I think anybody who owns a B70 or other tech suit certainly does consider masters swimming to be a serious competitive organization.
It is as serious (possibly more) than any other adult athletic venture. When you've got (admittedly a few) of the elite Masters competing at Trials, Grand Prix's, etc. and (more) with aspirations to do so, you're in the serious competitive zone. While many of us might not train as much as we'd like to or as we could when we're younger, those competitive fires are stoked pretty high when many (most?) of us are on the blocks at a meet.
