I recently got a email from my age group swim team. They sent out a mass email about deck changing. Ohio rules now are if you are caught changing on deck before or after practice you are then suspended for a week and also the next swim meet. If caught at a meet doing this, you will be immediately removed from meet and the team will suspend you one week.
Is this pretty much a standard rule across the club teams or now a USS rule? I suppose I can see how this can become an issue and concern. Have to say I have not seen many masters doing the deck change, although I admit, I have deck changed at a masters meet but not at a USS meet.
I do it at practice all the time!
By the time the age-groupers, senior team, and diving team have dripped and trapsed mud and crap through the locker room it just smells and looks too bad to go into.
Last year they found staph infection in there and had to clear everything out and sanitize.
I'd rather wear my suit to the pool with my clothes over it and change on deck!
I thought deck-changing was like rule #3 or #4 in the swimmer's handbook? I'll let the tech suits go by the wayside, but banning deck-changing is un-American. :canada:
By the way, how come we've got a Canadian flag bearing emoticon, but not a stars-n-stripes? First the dollar goes to parity and now this!
I'd rather wear my suit to the pool with my clothes over it and change on deck!
So what actually constitutes "deck changing"? Taking off tee, shorts and flip-flops worn over your suit is hardly changing....or is it? :confused:
Now a full on good ol' british change under a towel that blows away in the wind is an entirely different subject....:bolt:
I've got to admit I never really understood the whole deck change thing. Why not just change in the locker room?
I won't miss the deck change anymore (though I used to use it here and there). The thing I can never figure out is why anyone would wake up for a 5 AM practice, put on clothes, then immediately come to the pool and change into a swimsuit. Unless maybe you want to waste warm-up time changing in the locker room, it seems like an unnecessary step to me!
I won't miss the deck change anymore (though I used to use it here and there). The thing I can never figure out is why anyone would wake up for a 5 AM practice, put on clothes, then immediately come to the pool and change into a swimsuit. Unless maybe you want to waste warm-up time changing in the locker room, it seems like an unnecessary step to me!
I'm suspicious of a few things in life, one of them being people who come to the pool already in their suits. Adults who chew gum is another area of suspicion, but that's a side topic.
Cause my boys like to be free! :agree::afraid:
I'm suspicious of a few things in life, one of them being people who come to the pool already in their suits.
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Adults who chew gum is another area of suspicion, but that's a side topic.
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How else you going to drown out the coffee breath?:anim_coffee:
I'm suspicious of a few things in life, one of them being people who come to the pool already in their suits. Adults who chew gum is another area of suspicion, but that's a side topic.
OK, since we're already here: I've noticed at my gym that the people who come to the pool already in their suits are the least likely to shower before entering the pool. (Showering is mandatory and there is a shower on the pool deck, so there is no excuse for not showering.) Within this set of people, the women are less likely to shower than the men. Also within this set of people, the women are more likely to bring their own towels. (The gym provides plain white towels for everyone, so if I see you drying off on the pool deck with a big blue towel, you must have brought it, even though it's completely unnecessary... unless you're crazy. Then it's OK! :banana:) It would be fun to follow the non-showering towel-bringers around for a day to see how they tackle serious issues such as using public restrooms, sitting in chairs that are still warm from the last person that sat there, etc.
I don't really have an opinion on gum chewers :D
Deck changing is de rigueur. Who in their right mind is going to tire out their legs walking to a cramped, overcrowded (dark, cold, damp, etc) locker room when you can change "on the spot"?
Answer: A woman putting on or taking off a B70.
Now, I'm perfectly fine pulling down the straps of said suit and putting on a t-shirt. That can be done discretely enough.
I can't imagine not showering after swimming, so there's no reason for a deck change. A beach change, OTOH, is a whole different story.
I sort of agree with geek. Showing up to the pool with your suit already on is weird. It just is.
