To Jaked or not to be Jaked - THAT is the question
Former Member
Would you splurge and get one of these suits if you could afford one and they were in stock even with the possibility of a ban approaching in 2010?
There are lots of pros and cons of which only a few I'll list here:
Cons
Many of your competitors have inferior suits, so is it as satisfying to beat them given the possible advantage of 1.5 seconds or more per 100?
You are near some masters world records. Although you may break one with the suit, the satisfaction is not the same for you as the current world record holder did not have a comparable suit.
How will you physically and mentally handle the suit downgrade post the ban, assuming it happens.
Wait! Your "just for fun", it's all about self improvement masters swimming feels like it's suddenly taking a turn to win at all costs.
Pros
What's not fun about going as fast as possible while staying within the rules?
You had better take advantage of the fast suit technology while it's still around and legal.
Who does not like to turn in a top performance?
I'm torn. Pun fully intended.
Former Member
Where could you even buy a jacked suit? I've searched with no success.
they've been selling them here http://www.jakedusa.com/store/
Former Member
Would you splurge and get one of these suits if you could afford one and they were in stock even with the possibility of a ban approaching in 2010?
No "Possibility": as it stands the tech suits are a done deal, a dead horse, soured milk. Unless, with their impending doom all but assured, the Jaked suit becomes gets moved to the "bargain bin" at 50$ a suit, why waste your money and likely post a bunch of useless asterix times?
I wonder how the companies that invested untold amounts of money in development of these suits feel right now? They were not even on the market long enough to suck even one swim parent into buying a full rigging for their soon to be Olympian ten year old. All that money and likely not even one red cent back on the investment.
why waste your money and likely post a bunch of useless asterix times?
a bunch of asterix times? the suits are legal right now. why would you mark any times set within the bounds of the FINA rules with an asterix?
a bunch of asterix times? the suits are legal right now. why would you mark any times set within the bounds of the FINA rules with an asterix?
I didn't realize that en.wikipedia.org/.../Asterix was such a good swimmer...! :bolt:
I didn't realize that en.wikipedia.org/.../Asterix was such a good swimmer...! :bolt:
on a side note, his theme park outside of paris is awesome. Went there once as a kid.
Well, that's really not an accurate deduction. We don't know if he was swimming easy in the prelims and then giving it his all in the final. Plus the additional adrenaline during the final heats. Impressive drops however.
Former Member
Great responses.
Still trying to make sense of the whole Jaked situation.
One of the young men who wore a Jaked for finals while wearing a lesser suit for prelims had these results
100 LCM Fly Prelims 56.6
100 LCM Fly Finals with Jaked 53.3
200 LCM Fly Prelims 2:08.7
200 LCM Fly Finals with Jaked 1:57.8
200 LCM IM Prelims 2:11
200 LCM IM Finals with Jaked 2:00.7
Former Member
I give the big finger to FINA and Speedo. but rules are rules, also in spirit. So I am back to textile jammers. Actually I never wore textile jammers, having last really swam in paper banana hammocks, so it's really just "to" textile jammers...
