It will be interesting to see what happens in te International (and Masters) realm with regard to world record progression(s)...how many years will we go before we see some of these records go down? What if any impact from a marketing standpoint will slower times/fewer records have on the growth of swimming?
I'm also curious about how some swimmers (especially masters) will handle swimming times slower than they have the last few years....
I agree. Maybe the new hot discussion topics will revolve around how to lose weight and obtain the compression and streamline that we had with the tech suits.
The times might be somewhat slower, but the pecking order will remain largely unchanged. I think the masters records will probably fall pretty quickly since many of the masters records are broken as swimmers age up and replace the previous slower generations.
Maybe to keep the tech suit discussion going we should make a game of guessing who adds the most time from their previous masters best. Any guesses/bets on which masters swimmers will add the most time to their best masters times? Lets see, who has really crammed themselves into a tech suit the best in the past? On second thought, that game probably isn't going to help someone in rehab due to tech suit withdrawals.
Tim
It will be interesting to see what happens in te International (and Masters) realm with regard to world record progression(s)...how many years will we go before we see some of these records go down? What if any impact from a marketing standpoint will slower times/fewer records have on the growth of swimming?
I'm also curious about how some swimmers (especially masters) will handle swimming times slower than they have the last few years....
I agree. Maybe the new hot discussion topics will revolve around how to lose weight and obtain the compression and streamline that we had with the tech suits.
The times might be somewhat slower, but the pecking order will remain largely unchanged. I think the masters records will probably fall pretty quickly since many of the masters records are broken as swimmers age up and replace the previous slower generations.
Maybe to keep the tech suit discussion going we should make a game of guessing who adds the most time from their previous masters best. Any guesses/bets on which masters swimmers will add the most time to their best masters times? Lets see, who has really crammed themselves into a tech suit the best in the past? On second thought, that game probably isn't going to help someone in rehab due to tech suit withdrawals.
Tim
