I am posting this as an informational item only. If you guys want to start another tech suit flame war over this, have at it, but I won't be participating.
Yesterday, I received an email which stated:
United States Masters Swimming is considering whether to allow Tech Suits (ie Blue 70, Speedo Fastskins, etc ) at short course yards meets.
Pacific Masters is polling swimmers who registered for the 2010 Pacific Masters Short Course Championships to find out what our swimmer's opinion is of this proposed rule change. The polling will close at noon, Tuesday September 7th.
This poll should take less than five minutes to complete. We do value your opinion, we hope to find out more about what our members think.
Unfortunately, having responded to the poll questions I can no longer access the poll, or I would post the questions too.
It seems a little bit odd to me that Pacific made the proposals BEFORE doing a poll, but if it is well-designed and administered I don't see a problem with doing one. Along those lines, I think it is a bad idea that they only polled people who participated in a championship meet if they truly want "to find out what our swimmer's opinion is of this proposed rule change."
Virginia did its own poll Aug 20-29.
Along those lines, I think it is a bad idea that they only polled people who participated in a championship meet if they truly want "to find out what our swimmer's opinion is of this proposed rule change."
This.
I don't know about any other surveys. We posted our results on our website.
Summary of the poll results:
There were 184 responses to the survey. Of the respondents, 15% approved of the idea of allowing the suits in SCY meets, while 76% disapproved; the statistical margin of error in these numbers is about 7%. The disapproval rate is virtually identical among swimmers who identified themselves as regular or prospective participants in
USMS competitions.
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And some cool new-ish smilies I haven't had a chance to use yet (but mean nothing in the current context):
:dj_dance::drowning::rantonoff::troll_with_sign:
That.
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And some cool new-ish smilies I haven't had a chance to use yet (but mean nothing in the current context):
:dj_dance::drowning::rantonoff::troll_with_sign:
Sorry if I was too cryptic for you.
That.
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And some cool new-ish smilies I haven't had a chance to use yet (but mean nothing in the current context):
:dj_dance::drowning::rantonoff::troll_with_sign:
You go, Chris! Use those Smilies! :D At least somebody besides me likes to over use them! :banana:
I picked a fine year to miss the PMS championships! Now I don't get a say in the poll. Boo! They should have polled everybody who swam in any SCY competition this year.... Score one for the tech suit supporters. :( I need to take a :chillpill:. Ahh. That's better! :)
