I Can't Use My Suit?

I worked out during my stay in Mexico this past winter, in a very modest heavy duty Jammer with a modesy panel. It soon became a very revelling suit and my wife decided it was to be put in the garbage :bouncing::bouncing::bouncing:

I worked out during my stay in Mexico this past winter, in a very modest heavy duty Jammer with a modesy panel. It soon became a very revelling suit and my wife decided it was to be put in the garbage :bouncing::bouncing::bouncing: Freudian slip, George? Exactly what kind of beach was this? :) rev·el Show IPA verb,-eled, -el·ing or (especially British) -elled, -el·ling, noun –verb (used without object) 1. to take great pleasure or delight 2. to make merry; indulge in boisterous festivities.

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Um, I'm confused. This seems to be a circular argument. If they don't know what is allowed, then why is what being allowed even relevant? There's nothing circular about my argument unless you completely misread it. But hey, if you'd rather engage in pointless quibbles than think about what might make the sport more attractive to more people, go for it.

There's nothing circular about my argument unless you completely misread it. But hey, if you'd rather engage in pointless quibbles than think about what might make the sport more attractive to more people, go for it. You can wear whatever you want to practice, where you will spend the vast majority of your time. And, considering 99.99% of swimmers wear some style of speedo, your argument falls very flat.

You are right I meant to say revealing, some at the pool did want to 1. to take great pleasure or delight 2. to make merry; indulge in boisterous festivities. My meaning was to be Revealing (Clothing & Fashion) showing or designed to show more of the body than is usual or conventional a revealing costume revealingly adv Freudian slip, George? Exactly what kind of beach was this? :) rev·el Show IPA verb,-eled, -el·ing or (especially British) -elled, -el·ling, noun –verb (used without object) 1. to take great pleasure or delight 2. to make merry; indulge in boisterous festivities.

There is bound to be confusion! I feel sorry for folks all around. The folks who shelled out a lot for the suits, the volunteers and officials running the meets who have to parse the new rules in excruciating hair-splitting detail, look for zippers, and be able to quickly perform legal/illegal classification before someone gets on the blocks, etc.

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!)

Hi Lee - I was looking forward to seeing you again in Atlanta. I'm glad your back is better and that your swimming is coming along. Puerto Rico is around the corner and I hope you can make that meet. Best wishes, Philipp Thanks Phil: Was looking forward to seeing you there too but cannot make it. I do have a good friend and former teammate, Rafi Gonzales, who lives down there. I have visited him 3 or 4 times and he always puts me up (on the beach in Isla Verde!) so I may go, but I suck at LCM. Bill is going. I am swimming for Santa Rosa Masters now and see you are swimming for a Florida team? We need to get the WR relay back together when it is attainable. Lee

Lee Raises a good question.... Does the rule absolutely "prevent" him from swimming in the meet, or does it "disqualify" his results if he swims with his suit? In short, could he still swim but not place? (Not suggesting he would WANT to do this, just wondering if he CAN do this?) My team is hosting an SCM meet this weekend. One of my buddies who will be going to Atlanta asked if he could wear his B70 for the 50 back. He knows it's not legal and that he will be DQ'd, but he wanted to get a race pace practice swim in it. The meet director emailed the referee, and got this response: We are supposed to prevent swimmers from using the suit. If we catch them before the race, we are supposed to tell them to change to a legal suit or they can't swim. If we catch it after the race has started, then we have to DQ them.