The cheaters are at it again :D
Now they are using floating devices ahhhh evil suits AND new evil starting blocks. :applaud:
Just watched the Berlin races ... the reactions times are down and I saw people approach the 5 meter mark on the entry - they are launching off those blocks.
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So instead they need to give specifications for what is allowed in a suit, and then suit manufacturers can innovate all they want within those guidelines.
Which is exactly what they did. You're just not happy with what they decided, just as others would not have been happy allowing wetsuits. I mean "swimskins."
Well maybe we should go back to old backstroke and make all dolphin kicks illegal as well .....
Interesting.
I will be curious to see if people will experiment with these to try to get the most out of them.
Back in the early 1970's there was, for a brief period, a fad in track sprinting wherein a sprinter used starting blocks but didn't get all the way down like you see now. It was a semi-standing start and was actually fairly fast, although not as fast as the all-the-way-down starts. Given the size limitation of a swimmer's starting block, this might actually be a useful technique to experiment with since it didn't need the same area as an all-the-way-down start.
-LBJ
This is just another thing for swimmers trapped in the past to gripe about.
As the beatnik Maynard G. Krebbs often used to say in the 1960s TV sitcom "Dobie" ......"You Rang?......" :anim_coffee:
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Well maybe we should go back to old backstroke and make all dolphin kicks illegal as well .....
They were never illegal. I've used them my entire swimming career.
