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 was at an open water swim recently where a number of the women created a long line at the bathroom because they didn't wear their suits there and were apparently too shy to "deck change" (even in the area of the bathroom outside the stalls!) Grr... a little more deck changing and a little less modesty would have gone a long way for those of us with more serious business to attend to.Here's the extreme extension of this idea to test your modesty: a runner friend once told me they did the Berlin Marathon and that loads of men and women strip down to the buff for post-race, public showers. Not sure if that's 100% true, but, if so, I'll stick to just deck changing.
I was at an open water swim recently where a number of the women created a long line at the bathroom because they didn't wear their suits there and were apparently too shy to "deck change" (even in the area of the bathroom outside the stalls!) Grr... a little more deck changing and a little less modesty would have gone a long way for those of us with more serious business to attend to.Here's the extreme extension of this idea to test your modesty: a runner friend once told me they did the Berlin Marathon and that loads of men and women strip down to the buff for post-race, public showers. Not sure if that's 100% true, but, if so, I'll stick to just deck changing.
