What is it going to be like racing in Racing in Briefs, Jammers for the guys and Neck to Knee suits for the women? Without rubber suits and we go back to nylon, lycra may be even silk suits?
If the new rules go into effect unless FINA changes their mind????
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I have an interesting anecdote to add here...
I swam sunday only (yesterday) at Indy nationals. I swam the 50 free, the 400 fr, and the 200im. I have been wearing suits in most races for the last couple of years...fs pros.
The 400fr I wore my fspro and dropped 11 seconds from this season's best. In the 50 I wore my pro and dropped no time from this seasons best. (which is really weird because I tapered for 5 weeks. i thought I would have dropped more in the 50 than the 400??)
then after being there all day yesterday I dragged my suit on one more time and stood around in it for about half an hour before the 200IM. with about 5 minutes before my heat I looked down at my legs and noticed big indents were the elastic was cutting in and I thought, you know this can't be good for circulation. I was already frustrated with the suits...i love the extra speed but I hate continuously messing around with them. Regardless, I hastily pulled the suit off and raced in an endurance brief.
I added about three seconds. In hindsight, I should have left the suit on for the sake of consistency.
But I did learn something. I'm really not where I think I am in terms of fitness and performance. I'm a good bit slower and this will become apparent when and if the suits become illegal in masters.
this is good news and bad news. The bad news is, well, I'm not as fast as I think I am. The good news is I can more accurately train to get better based on past experience.
Tdrop a speedo endurance brief is not what I would consider a racing suit. It meets my I dea of a training type swim suit. Not meant for racing in.
Its not my idea of a racing suit either. But lets be honest, besides wearing an actual mesh drag suit there is nothing a brief is going to do to seriously help or diminish speed. The point is a tight fitting endurance brief is a pretty close close if not identical comparison to racing in any other type of "brief"...besides a mesh drag suit. There just isn't enough coverage or fabric to make a real difference.
This anecdote is intended to be a comparison of racing in a tech suit versus racing in a brief.
Fire Sale aside, if tech would be good training devices, why not just wear a wetsuit?
I doubt they would make good training devices. Just a novelty item like fins, snorkles and (to a degree) hand paddles.
You listed a lot of other good training devices as "novelty" items so I think you can safely be called "old school" !
...you've never written anything that qualfies....
Hey Lefty
Did the power to your computer go off before your could finish typing your sentence? :confused:
If so, it might be a good idea to buy a back up power source for your computer -or if it's not power related problem, just go to Barnes & Noble and pick up a grammar book. :agree:
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