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
Watching the World Cup races - all tech suits across the board (Well until Phelps shows up at least ) - People can tell me whatever they want. Swimmers like the Tech suits - if it was up to the swimmers, they would keep all current suits. Since Masters swimming is really run by the actual swimmers and not officials and coaches .....
I am not completely sure how USA-S works at the convention; I do know that there are many swimmers there who are delegates. I presume they have voting rights and some input into legislation? If the swimmers are so pro-suit, why did USA-S vote for an early implementation? I guess to have the whole season in the same suits, but they didn't need to use FINA-approved suits in SCY.
Going only by the reactions of the swimmers I know personally around this area, I don't see nearly the same level of emotion -- one way or another -- about the suits as I do in masters. Maybe it is just a characteristic of the age bracket -- the quintessential shoulder-shrug of the teen -- but the swimmers mostly seem interested in clarity and fairness and could take or leave the suits themselves. There are some exceptions of course: the early adopters who liked the suits, and those who didn't like having to mess around with them. (There weren't many of either.)
Coaches are different, most I know are fairly strongly against the suits. Probably understandable: the suits represent an element over which they have less control than training & meets, and many coaches are control freaks.
Parents are different, too. Some will not like the expense, while others will like the opportunity to buy their child an advantage over the competition. I suspect the latter outnumber the former.
Watching the World Cup races - all tech suits across the board (Well until Phelps shows up at least ) - People can tell me whatever they want. Swimmers like the Tech suits - if it was up to the swimmers, they would keep all current suits. Since Masters swimming is really run by the actual swimmers and not officials and coaches .....
I am not completely sure how USA-S works at the convention; I do know that there are many swimmers there who are delegates. I presume they have voting rights and some input into legislation? If the swimmers are so pro-suit, why did USA-S vote for an early implementation? I guess to have the whole season in the same suits, but they didn't need to use FINA-approved suits in SCY.
Going only by the reactions of the swimmers I know personally around this area, I don't see nearly the same level of emotion -- one way or another -- about the suits as I do in masters. Maybe it is just a characteristic of the age bracket -- the quintessential shoulder-shrug of the teen -- but the swimmers mostly seem interested in clarity and fairness and could take or leave the suits themselves. There are some exceptions of course: the early adopters who liked the suits, and those who didn't like having to mess around with them. (There weren't many of either.)
Coaches are different, most I know are fairly strongly against the suits. Probably understandable: the suits represent an element over which they have less control than training & meets, and many coaches are control freaks.
Parents are different, too. Some will not like the expense, while others will like the opportunity to buy their child an advantage over the competition. I suspect the latter outnumber the former.
