FINA issued Ruled,www.usms.org/.../showpost.php
Soon the USMS rules committee will issue their ruling.
SCM & LCM seems to be a done deal, the 2010 seasons started on Jan 1, 2010 & the rule began on Jan 1, 2010.
SCY is an American thing. The 2009 - 2010 SCY season began on June 1st 2009 and ends on May 31st 2010.
Will the new suit rules take effect immediately or at the end of this season?
I've heard rumours we might be able to wear full body suits at 2010 SCY Nats.
Look forward to finding out what the USMS ruling will be for SCY.
1/15/10 FINA BUREAU CONSIDERS SWIMWEAR RULES FOR MASTERS
The FINA Bureau has considered Masters swimwear rules. The USMS Rules Committee will learn the results shortly and then will immediately reconsider the USMS swimwear rules in cooperation with the USMS Executive Committee. All USMS members will be notified of any changes to USMS swimwear rules and the effective date. Regardless of any changes to the USMS swimwear rules, the June 1, 2009 USMS swimwear interpretations will apply for the duration of the One Hour Postal Swim being conducted in January 2010.
from www.usms.org/.../20100115swimsuits.pdf
you'll find the update at http://www.usms.org/rules/
If we are getting picky then, we should go to meets without any training. Sign-up for events, race them, go home. That is the only way that our results won't be enhanced by anything other than our own abilities.
Everything that we do...swim practices, dryland training, sleep, nutrition, stroke changes, goggles, starts, turns, they all ENHANCE our swims. Suits are just one more part of the equation.
Swim results are enhanced by alot of stuff...not just one item.
Ridiculous. Swimming -- or any athletic endeavor -- SHOULD be decided by how hard & smart one trains, how efficiently one swims, and how talented s/he is. IMO it shouldn't be decided by who happened to pick the best suit or sponsor. Or whether a suit rips behind the blocks before a race. That feeling is where I differ from the suit-lovers, who are (again IMO) overly enamored with gear.
No other piece of swimming equipment has such an impact on the results. Do you think the brand of goggles you use makes a difference? No, you choose it based on personal preference. That's pretty much how it used to be with suits back in the day.
Is Biedermann faster than Phelps in the 200 free with equal suits? I don't know, and anyone who says they do is lying. It is too bad, because before the latest round of suit idiocy, a head-to-head race would have decided such a thing.
All this doesn't matter. FINA, USA-Swimming, the NCAA, all agree on one thing: the suits are bad. Good riddance, don't let the door hit you on the way out. It hasn't resulted in mass defection from the sport either. At the age-group level I'm still seeing tons of best times and amazing swims.
I have heard the following statement -- sometimes as a joke, sometimes not -- among quite a few masters swimmers about the suit ban: time to get fit and lose weight (Ahelee Sue posted this very comment on FB. Not that she needs to worry about either...). Too bad it took a ban to bring out such sentiments.
If we are getting picky then, we should go to meets without any training. Sign-up for events, race them, go home. That is the only way that our results won't be enhanced by anything other than our own abilities.
Everything that we do...swim practices, dryland training, sleep, nutrition, stroke changes, goggles, starts, turns, they all ENHANCE our swims. Suits are just one more part of the equation.
Swim results are enhanced by alot of stuff...not just one item.
Ridiculous. Swimming -- or any athletic endeavor -- SHOULD be decided by how hard & smart one trains, how efficiently one swims, and how talented s/he is. IMO it shouldn't be decided by who happened to pick the best suit or sponsor. Or whether a suit rips behind the blocks before a race. That feeling is where I differ from the suit-lovers, who are (again IMO) overly enamored with gear.
No other piece of swimming equipment has such an impact on the results. Do you think the brand of goggles you use makes a difference? No, you choose it based on personal preference. That's pretty much how it used to be with suits back in the day.
Is Biedermann faster than Phelps in the 200 free with equal suits? I don't know, and anyone who says they do is lying. It is too bad, because before the latest round of suit idiocy, a head-to-head race would have decided such a thing.
All this doesn't matter. FINA, USA-Swimming, the NCAA, all agree on one thing: the suits are bad. Good riddance, don't let the door hit you on the way out. It hasn't resulted in mass defection from the sport either. At the age-group level I'm still seeing tons of best times and amazing swims.
I have heard the following statement -- sometimes as a joke, sometimes not -- among quite a few masters swimmers about the suit ban: time to get fit and lose weight (Ahelee Sue posted this very comment on FB. Not that she needs to worry about either...). Too bad it took a ban to bring out such sentiments.
