(How to even pronounce the subject of this thread: "Never saw so many Jaked's "?)
Never mind the plural, how do you even pronounce Jaked? Is it Jake-Ed or Jack-Ed or Jacked or Jaked (one syllable, like past-tense of "to Jake")? I haven't heard it out loud yet, just in writing.
Then again I'm still not sure I pronounce Tyr properly either.
Then again I'm still not sure I pronounce Tyr properly either.
According to their website it's pronounced "tier." I was going to say, "tear" as in what your eye does, but "tier" works without needing further explanation :)
It took me about 20.94 seconds to be a believer :applaud:
You and everybody else. Whatever suit was worn for the latest eye-popping swim, by definition that suit has been "proven" to be the fastest; ignore any data that dare to hint otherwise.
I would have a little more confidence if someone could explain exactly why they are so much better than the other suits -- especially the other impermeable ones -- but I don't think anyone knows. (Leaving aside Craig Lord's ridiculous explanation about the importance of air trapping during the start, or about "interfacing directly with the CNS" or some other claptrap.)
the only one who has said that the Jaked has been "proven" to be the fastest suit is you. You have a tendency to marginalize other people's comments by creating strawman arguments. Dispute legitimate claims by attributing ridiculous claims to those who disagree with you...
Is this the triathlete thread? :bolt:
Here's what Craig Lord says about the Jaked:
Jaked: Thank god it comes in black, as Henry Ford might have said! This is the suit that we saw on the Olympic skins of the golden wonders (who won no gold) among Italian men suited to the tune of the Italian federation's misguided flight from the Arena stable. Jaked describes its J01 suit as being "more than skin": It comes from a new advanced technology constructive such as thermo-welding, that give the clothes the maximum comfort due to total absence of seams and a revolutionary material-based polyurethane for its incredible mechanical and dynamics provide, allowing the swimmer maximum fluid-dynamics in water, as well as a muscle compression that reduce the strain. Lightness, fit, flexibility and total indeformability over time are the uniqueness of the product. .
You and everybody else. Whatever suit was worn for the latest eye-popping swim, by definition that suit has been "proven" to be the fastest; ignore any data that dare to hint otherwise.
I would have a little more confidence if someone could explain exactly why they are so much better than the other suits -- especially the other impermeable ones -- but I don't think that's true. (Leaving aside Craig Lord's ridiculous explanation about the importance of air trapping during the start, or about "interfacing directly with the CNS" or some other claptrap.)
Chris..... If you're so convinced of the talent factor overiding the latest crazed rubber suit factor, why not just wear and old Fastskin full body Pro in all your races from now on instead of one of the new rubber wonder suits. You'll save some money..... :-)
Walters dropped 1.5 sec on his 200 free. I'm sure part of it was he was tapered and inspired next to Phelps and the rest is the suit benefit. This is the dilema, it's hard to extract and break out the two.
1.5sec is a major drop if his prior PB was recent and in a LZR. I'm not sure the circumstances of his prior PB.
Many doofus (?) or it could be "doofusus" (as in doofus-us)
I prefer to call them "doofii". It makes you sound smarter if you say it...
All suits aside--let people wear whatever suit they want. If they are tapered and put in the training, the suits don't win the race for them. I am sure that has been said numerous times on this forum.
I just don't see the justification in spending that kind of $$ on a suit.
It is sad to me...in the same way as when Federer eclipses Sampras. My comment is not meant as a putdown of Mark but rather as another example of technology moving in leaps and bounds ahead of the training and technique development that preceded these suits.
Really? You didn't mean to disparage Mark's hard work? And yet, you managed to marginalize it in yet another post.
Hmmmm.
By the way, I swam an in-season meet several weeks ago and wore a B70 leggings...I was tired from training and hoping to get some "pep." Result: crappy, crappy swimming, no better than practice swimming in training briefs. Maybe I didn't say the magic words just right before the races.
Mr. Stevenson, if you think the suits don't work then don't wear them. Of all the dumb statements made by the likes of Craig Lord, implying that the suit a Blue70 is no better than a training briefs is the dumbest.
You and everybody else. Whatever suit was worn for the latest eye-popping swim, by definition that suit has been "proven" to be the fastest; ignore any data that dare to hint otherwise.
the only one who has said that the Jaked has been "proven" to be the fastest suit is you. You have a tendency to marginalize other people's comments by creating strawman arguments. Dispute legitimate claims by attributing ridiculous claims to those who disagree with you...
