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
I just heard USMS voted at convention to follow FINA and USS Swimming and ban the tech suits ... trying to confirm. Maybe it was only a committee recommendation?
Our input, even if wanted, could be too late. I voted for following the international masters consensus.
Anyone else heard anything?
I just heard USMS voted at convention to follow FINA and USS Swimming and ban the tech suits ... trying to confirm. Maybe it was only a committee recommendation?
Our input, even if wanted, could be too late.
Anyone else heard anything?
My inside source, who I think might have been the indirect source for Leslie's info, wrote at 12:44 pm "suit rules will follow fina guidelines to go into effect jan 1 2010.
When I asked for clarification, i got this at 12:48 pm "Masters elected to follow fina guidelines."
I don't know what this means vis a vis yards, since fina doesn't have any guidelines about yards meets. it seems to me unlikely that they would let us swim yards meets this fall early winter, and stockpile times for top 10 consideration WITH the suits, then outlaw the suits for SCY championships in the spring.
This would give a definite advantage to those cheaters in California, with their fancy outdoor pools, endless meets, etc.
Those of us confined to Amish mudholes in the Pittsburgh area, which will probably be frozen over soon and in any event are almost impossible to saction for USMS official meets, well, it just ain't right!
probably an incredibly dumb question, but what exactly is the 'international masters consensus?" does it comprise USMS, Canada Masters, masters bodies of other countries? for some reason I thought FINA was the over-reaching organization?
I don't know what this means vis a vis yards, since fina doesn't have any guidelines about yards meets. it seems to me unlikely that they would let us swim yards meets this fall early winter, and stockpile times for top 10 consideration WITH the suits, then outlaw the suits for SCY championships in the spring.
Maybe USMS can exempt the rest of the SCY season as a sop to their likely-to-be-pissed-off sponsor, B70 ...
Heard from someone else too, Jimby. Rec, not vote.
You must wake-up everyday wanting to be back in the 1970's for some reason. Do you miss the disco area or do the clothes you wear only look good in that decade?
Again, why do you care what suits we wear?
I think there are certain people who enjoy looking at men in Speedos.
The colloquial term for these are "chubby chasers."
probably an incredibly dumb question, but what exactly is the 'international masters consensus?" does it comprise USMS, Canada Masters, masters bodies of other countries? for some reason I thought FINA was the over-reaching organization?
LEN the Euro swimming body has made a statement that basically states the dubai charter doesn't cover masters swimming.
LEN the Euro swimming body has made a statement that basically states the dubai charter doesn't cover masters swimming.
Soooo ... can we all don our B70s for World Champs next summer or will the USMS swimmers competing in Sweden be wearing jammers? Can of worms opened wide now.
We are not training for the Olympics. FINA should not be writing the rules for Masters. And just as USMS has not adopted the FINA rule on age (i.e. your age is as of Dec 31st) we should not adopt this rule either.
We are not training for the Olympics. FINA should not be writing the rules for Masters. And just as USMS has not adopted the FINA rule on age (i.e. your age is as of Dec 31st) we should not adopt this rule either.
then who should be writing the rules for masters??? and i mean that seriously...
(and actually, USMS has adopted the fina rules for age, at least in the courses that we share with the rest of the world...)
i'm honestly kind of shocked that LEN took the "dubai charter doesn't apply to masters" comment to heart, seeing as how it came from a press secretary, and not someone with actual power with in fina... i know that's all we've heard from fina regarding masters and suits, but seriously, a press secretary?!?
