TECHSUITS BANNED (again): AP article on FINA ruling

I really think these suits should be banned for age group swimmers. The sad thing is, these swimmers aren't learning to swim the right way. If they don't have to work to get their body high on the water or get their back end up on their own, they aren't learning to swim well. If the suit is doing it, then what are they learning? Not everyone can afford these suits and there should be a level playing field when it comes to kids. If high school basketball players could buy shoes with springs in them to make them jump higher and those shoes were $500.00- $600.00 a pair, many kids would be forced out of basketball because they would not be able to afford those shoes. Then, if all the colleges recruited those basketball players and then some of them turned pro, it wouldn't be about who's the best player. It would be about who was able to get a hold of the best shoes. That's what these Blue seventies and Lasers are doing to our age group swimmers. That's not fair.

I really think these suits should be banned for age group swimmers. The sad thing is, these swimmers aren't learning to swim the right way. If they don't have to work to get their body high on the water or get their back end up on their own, they aren't learning to swim well. If the suit is doing it, then what are they learning? Not everyone can afford these suits and there should be a level playing field when it comes to kids. If high school basketball players could buy shoes with springs in them to make them jump higher and those shoes were $500.00- $600.00 a pair, many kids would be forced out of basketball because they would not be able to afford those shoes. Then, if all the colleges recruited those basketball players and then some of them turned pro, it wouldn't be about who's the best player. It would be about who was able to get a hold of the best shoes. That's what these Blue seventies and Lasers are doing to our age group swimmers. That's not fair.