Yeee Gadds – Not another idea for a tech suit.
well - I'm not suggesting in anyway shape or form that these suits should be used in any manner of competitive swimming. I do however think the tech behind the suits is way cool (they were my physics project in Senior year of College - the poorly written paper title: "The Asymptotic Speed of Swimming as "T" Approaches 0" :D)
Well - would a "hydrophobic" material really be "permeable" ? I mean - the fabric itself wouldn't be what was holding the water.
Well, the way I look at it, if I used a thread that itself was not permeable, say rubber for example, but wove it together so that in actuality there were tiny "holes" through which water could pass, I would say that the fabric could be called permeable. Now I'm sure FINA wouldn't allow a tech suit made of woven rubber, since rubber falls outside the textile category. But, as someone else mentioned, there are lots of man-made fibers that are woven into swimsuits, so why not carbon fiber. :D
Does FINA have any known rules to select suits other than 'textile'?
For example, how do we know that a suit must be permeable? How permeable? Many legal suits bead water for it to slides off.
Here's a really challenging idea: Can someone figure out a way to seal the lid on this can of worms? :worms:
I suppose the easiest thing to do would to be reverse FINA's ruling on the tech suits. That or they just say the suits can only be made out of x, y, and or z, and that's it. I feel like this could get ridiculous as companies compete again to make the fastest legal suit.
"Textile" to me is a vague word since it doesn't imply only organic materials like cotton or wool. Lycra and Polyester aren't organic but they are legal.
Hypothetically, if some thread (in this case Carbon fiber) is engineered that could be woven into a textile and worked as well as a lzr, would FINA allow it?
I share FINA's concern that the new suits are changing the sport and undermine the success of swimmers in the past, but what sport's equipment hasn't been changed/improved/reengineered to improve the success of the athletes? I don't think the Native Americans had titanium lacrosse sticks, or the (now) Sweds parabolic skis, or Scottish carbon fiber golf clubs...
Yeee Gadds – Not another idea for a tech suit.
Taking a line from the movie "Jaws":
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water in a conventional brief........
"Tech Suits 2"
(Accompanying Sound Track)
YouTube - JAWS 2 Soundtrack Score Suite (John Williams))
Here's a really challenging idea: Can someone figure out a way to seal the lid on this can of worms? :worms:
D2
I suppose the easiest thing to do would to be reverse FINA's ruling on the tech suits.
He said seal the can of worms, not pry it open with the Jaws of Life.
