I started a similar poll before,but time has changed things and I thought since USMS is going to have to do something definitive so they should have some input from the forumites
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I am nearly bored of the whole tech suit issue, but I like a good loophole as much as the next off-shore investor.
One of my USA-S swimmers asked me, "will the old Nike jammers with the silicon gasket be legal?" Hmm, I thought, "probably not, because the gasket is not a 'textile'."
He then asked can suits have elastic in them? Hmm. Not sure. I believe that jammers traditionally use an elastic at the thigh, but that is not a textile. Is that going to be allowed going forward? I am only asking because I find it humorous when FINA "thinks things through" and misses loop holes and is forced to come up with new rules.
For men, I don't see why they don't reduce the suits down to briefs (I will let FINA define brief). Then they can remove all of the other rules. If a suit company then wants to make high tech briefs of any high tech material, the effect on performance would be significantly reduced, thereby making the effort pointless.
Sure, this doesn't solve the problem of women's suits and it doesn't help Masters swimmers who reportedly like the coverage of the tech suits, but I will let FINA solve those problems, and then unsolve them, and then solve them again and...
I am nearly bored of the whole tech suit issue, but I like a good loophole as much as the next off-shore investor.
One of my USA-S swimmers asked me, "will the old Nike jammers with the silicon gasket be legal?" Hmm, I thought, "probably not, because the gasket is not a 'textile'."
He then asked can suits have elastic in them? Hmm. Not sure. I believe that jammers traditionally use an elastic at the thigh, but that is not a textile. Is that going to be allowed going forward? I am only asking because I find it humorous when FINA "thinks things through" and misses loop holes and is forced to come up with new rules.
For men, I don't see why they don't reduce the suits down to briefs (I will let FINA define brief). Then they can remove all of the other rules. If a suit company then wants to make high tech briefs of any high tech material, the effect on performance would be significantly reduced, thereby making the effort pointless.
Sure, this doesn't solve the problem of women's suits and it doesn't help Masters swimmers who reportedly like the coverage of the tech suits, but I will let FINA solve those problems, and then unsolve them, and then solve them again and...
