FINA says Dubai Charter doesn't apply to Masters

Once FINA has re-issued the list of approved suits and finalized their suit criteria of jan 1, 2010, the suit companies will focus their efforts on making the new suits under the new guidelines. What USMS should consider doing is to allow the suits that have been used for the last year and before until they are no longer avaiable(which really won't be that long of time) for purchase Your assumption is that the makers will stop making the suits that aren't approved by FINA, but I don't think that's absolutely guaranteed especially if those suits are still allowed for masters. Take a company like blueseventy that has been in the wetsuit business. Their bread and butter is making neoprene suits and that was their innovation in the pool suit realm. If FINA rules that suits cannot contain any impermeable material will they even choose to remain in the market? Maybe they'll see masters as a continued market for the Nero and will focus their efforts to that end.

Once FINA has re-issued the list of approved suits and finalized their suit criteria of jan 1, 2010, the suit companies will focus their efforts on making the new suits under the new guidelines. What USMS should consider doing is to allow the suits that have been used for the last year and before until they are no longer avaiable(which really won't be that long of time) for purchase Your assumption is that the makers will stop making the suits that aren't approved by FINA, but I don't think that's absolutely guaranteed especially if those suits are still allowed for masters. Take a company like blueseventy that has been in the wetsuit business. Their bread and butter is making neoprene suits and that was their innovation in the pool suit realm. If FINA rules that suits cannot contain any impermeable material will they even choose to remain in the market? Maybe they'll see masters as a continued market for the Nero and will focus their efforts to that end.