Ask them if they would be okay with someone using a Harley at the Tour de France, or someone using a Segway at the Boston Marathon... That is an absurd exaggeration, but I think that is the point, a concern about how far things can be pushed before the sport becomes grotesque. Fins and flotation devices are not allowed, but some of these tech suits were close to doing the same things as those devices.
If they don't like that answer, remind them that (male) body suits were how the sport started (wool in the '20s), and briefs are the modern invention.
Geek has said many things. I thought it was moral sense of false superiority.
Or was it a superior moral of false senses? :confused:
There is a big difference between something propulsive (Harleys and fins) and a suit. There is also a huge difference between taking and not taking a big dolphin kick on an breaststroke underwater pull or not touching the wall prior to a flip turn (for those of us who remember freestyle flip turns requiring a hand touch).
It's called evolution of the sport.
"Are We Not Men? We Are DEVO!"
When you see me on the blocks in a jammer you will know "grotesque"!
Ask them if they would be okay with someone using a Harley at the Tour de France, or someone using a Segway at the Boston Marathon... That is an absurd exaggeration, but I think that is the point, a concern about how far things can be pushed before the sport becomes grotesque. Fins and flotation devices are not allowed, but some of these tech suits were close to doing the same things as those devices.
If they don't like that answer, remind them that (male) body suits were how the sport started (wool in the '20s), and briefs are the modern invention.
Geek has said many things. I thought it was moral sense of false superiority.
Or was it a superior moral of false senses? :confused:
There is a big difference between something propulsive (Harleys and fins) and a suit. There is also a huge difference between taking and not taking a big dolphin kick on an breaststroke underwater pull or not touching the wall prior to a flip turn (for those of us who remember freestyle flip turns requiring a hand touch).
It's called evolution of the sport.
"Are We Not Men? We Are DEVO!"
When you see me on the blocks in a jammer you will know "grotesque"!
