Well, I'm coming back to swim at Master's meets after a 5 year hiatus (surgeries, etc) and find that I cannot wear my "Farmer John" suit bought in 2000 and worn in 4 previous national meets (except this spring). Not a "tech" suit by any means but a hell of a beer-gut bra! Not sure I would get on the blocks without it so the hiatus may continue. Is it worth alienating us "plus-sized" guys over this silly rule? I suppose it will give me yet another reason to dump some weight. Looks like those other 50+ breaststrokers won't get beat by this fat guy any time soon.
Anyone else out there feel the same? I know most of you out there don't have this problem but to have a rule that reduces participation seems counterproductive.
Lee Rider
Fort Bragg, CA
We have a lot of people wearing rash guards at our workouts. Too much sun. I see people wearing bikinis with not much to them, jammers, tech suits, rash guards over suits (and these people don't need to hide anything), and regular 'ol suits.
It doesn't matter what you wear to practice.
It does matter what you wear to a meet though.
I was really surprised to see a guy this weekend wearing a full body suit with arms covered too. I thought this was illegal. What cracked me up was he had this suit on, but had a big bandaid on his thumb that was not secured very well! All this effort for less drag and this band aid was was definitely dragging.
I am of the persuasion that the damage has been done (to the record books anyway) with tech suits, so masters should just keep 'em. :bolt:
There are some people who are truly trippin' on the fact that they have to go back to regular suits. They are not happy. Someone tried to convince me that I would hate life w/out my tech suit, that I wouldn't swim as fast, etc. until I told them that I haven't come close to my best times (save the 1650) with a tech suit. "Oh," was the end of the conversation. (There was an advantage to having 4 kids in the last decade when swimsuits evolved!)
We have a lot of people wearing rash guards at our workouts. Too much sun. I see people wearing bikinis with not much to them, jammers, tech suits, rash guards over suits (and these people don't need to hide anything), and regular 'ol suits.
It doesn't matter what you wear to practice.
It does matter what you wear to a meet though.
I was really surprised to see a guy this weekend wearing a full body suit with arms covered too. I thought this was illegal. What cracked me up was he had this suit on, but had a big bandaid on his thumb that was not secured very well! All this effort for less drag and this band aid was was definitely dragging.
I am of the persuasion that the damage has been done (to the record books anyway) with tech suits, so masters should just keep 'em. :bolt:
There are some people who are truly trippin' on the fact that they have to go back to regular suits. They are not happy. Someone tried to convince me that I would hate life w/out my tech suit, that I wouldn't swim as fast, etc. until I told them that I haven't come close to my best times (save the 1650) with a tech suit. "Oh," was the end of the conversation. (There was an advantage to having 4 kids in the last decade when swimsuits evolved!)
