During the SPMA meet, I floated a Tech suit compromise by a few swimmers and they all seemed to be very interested. I am sure this has been suggested before, but here is goes -
- allow all current tech suits for all yards meets for the next 3 years (you can always revisit this)
- adopt what FINA issues in January for all meters meets
I think both "sides" could live with this, USMS can still say they comply with FINA, but the tech suit "junkies" can still have a full season each year.
I still say short course yards is a joke.
Come on, folks, the difference between SCY racing and SCM racing is minimal. We race a lot in SCY because a lot of / most of our pools are in SCY. People around the world race a lot in SCM because many of their pools are in SCM. If you voted for Jimmy Carter (didn't he make a big 'go metric' push), then you can continue to protest our penchant for SCY. If you're not out lobbying your politicians and school boards and municipalities and so on to bring this country onto the metric system, then all your whining about SCM vs. SCY is wasted because this is a big cultural and economic issue that ain't likely to change anytime soon.
On the positive side, though, this is one of those vibrant cultural differences that makes us somewhat unique -- are you all saying you want a world of bland, homogenized countries with no differences from one place to the next? We should embrace our quirky American love of a measurement system that has relatively little apparent logic to it and that was a gift, I believe, from the very nation we rebelled against!
You don't have to have a valid passport and visa to care about what the rest of the world does...Just because I have a passport doesn't mean I think we should do everything the rest of the world does.
WORD!
I still say short course yards is a joke.
Come on, folks, the difference between SCY racing and SCM racing is minimal. We race a lot in SCY because a lot of / most of our pools are in SCY. People around the world race a lot in SCM because many of their pools are in SCM. If you voted for Jimmy Carter (didn't he make a big 'go metric' push), then you can continue to protest our penchant for SCY. If you're not out lobbying your politicians and school boards and municipalities and so on to bring this country onto the metric system, then all your whining about SCM vs. SCY is wasted because this is a big cultural and economic issue that ain't likely to change anytime soon.
On the positive side, though, this is one of those vibrant cultural differences that makes us somewhat unique -- are you all saying you want a world of bland, homogenized countries with no differences from one place to the next? We should embrace our quirky American love of a measurement system that has relatively little apparent logic to it and that was a gift, I believe, from the very nation we rebelled against!
You don't have to have a valid passport and visa to care about what the rest of the world does...Just because I have a passport doesn't mean I think we should do everything the rest of the world does.
WORD!
