What should USMS do about the suits?

You are no more a purist that someone who embraces the suits and technology. Matter of fact I will claim the purist title because I want to see the sport move forward, not languish. I think saying you are a purist just makes you feel better about being a cheap skate. I have respect for those the past few years who show up at meets in a brief. I have respect for those who show up at bike races on some old steel jalopy. But, mostly I just wonder why you'd train hard and then fail to take advantage of that training. Remember that the "purist" label was foisted upon me, but is one that I actually wear with moral righteousness. You are not a purist, but a technologist. The suits do not move the sport forward. The sport moves forward through things like better training, nutrition and stroke technique. By the way, I reject the cost argument, and in fact own a B70. I didn't always wear it, preferring to see how fact I "really" was at least some of the time. I too was very enamored with the times I was swimming with my tech suit. I understand why people want to keep them so passionately. The whole "recapturing of youth" angle is not something the elites even have to factor in. We do. In fact, I reject all arguments on either side of the debate other than the argument that the suits make people go faster. Some people like this. Others, like me, do not. I do not see the tech suits as progress. I see them as a regression from the whole point of the endeavor (which is to see how fast I can get from one end of the course to the other).

You are no more a purist that someone who embraces the suits and technology. Matter of fact I will claim the purist title because I want to see the sport move forward, not languish. I think saying you are a purist just makes you feel better about being a cheap skate. I have respect for those the past few years who show up at meets in a brief. I have respect for those who show up at bike races on some old steel jalopy. But, mostly I just wonder why you'd train hard and then fail to take advantage of that training. Remember that the "purist" label was foisted upon me, but is one that I actually wear with moral righteousness. You are not a purist, but a technologist. The suits do not move the sport forward. The sport moves forward through things like better training, nutrition and stroke technique. By the way, I reject the cost argument, and in fact own a B70. I didn't always wear it, preferring to see how fact I "really" was at least some of the time. I too was very enamored with the times I was swimming with my tech suit. I understand why people want to keep them so passionately. The whole "recapturing of youth" angle is not something the elites even have to factor in. We do. In fact, I reject all arguments on either side of the debate other than the argument that the suits make people go faster. Some people like this. Others, like me, do not. I do not see the tech suits as progress. I see them as a regression from the whole point of the endeavor (which is to see how fast I can get from one end of the course to the other).