I know there are many of you out there with strong feelings against technical suits. While I respect your opinions, I am wanting to try a technical suit for the SCY 2011 state/national meets. What I am looking for here are suggestions, tips, and/or recommendations from people who are using technical suits as to what I should be looking for - other than "FINA approved". If you have any advice for someone looking to buy her first technical suit, please let me know. If it makes a difference, I am focusing on mainly freestyle and fly.
Thanks!
I know there are many of you out there with strong feelings against technical suits. While I respect your opinions, I am wanting to try a technical suit for the SCY 2011 state/national meets. What I am looking for here are suggestions, tips, and/or recommendations from people who are using technical suits as to what I should be looking for - other than "FINA approved". If you have any advice for someone looking to buy her first technical suit, please let me know. If it makes a difference, I am focusing on mainly freestyle and fly.
Thanks!
If price is an issue, then go with the earlier models/least expensive suits with the best fit for you. When in doubt on size, pick the one that you think will feel the least distracting when you have to wear it for hours and sit in it all damp. Keep in mind you can probably take it off your shoulders, but you probably will be wearing it on the bottom for the duration of your meets.
As a FIRST time buyer/user, I also recommend earlier model suits within each brand because they will be most familiar in feel as suits you are already used to. The technology aspect of the suit won't matter so much in a first time user - because you simply have to get used to swimming in a suit that goes to the knees, and also learning through trial & error on fit and feel.
A first suit is only that; you should expect to buy more in the future. At which point the first suit becomes your backup suit, and so on. So I wouldn't approach it like there is one Right Answer, simply the first one that you buy, and you always can try a different suit the next time.
Dpending on your relationship with teammates, you can also borrow someone's suit!
I do not recommend the BlueSeventy for a first time buyer. I love mine, but I think there are better all-purpose fit and feel suits. It has an extremely small rear end and small chest for the same size as Speedo, so unless you are very fit and have the body line, then this suit is NOT for you!
I recommend the Speedo FSPRo over the LZR Elite for a first time buyer. The Pro is more identifiable in the material feel, and for a first time user, I think there is very little difference in the tech aspect. In particular, I think the no-seam aspect of the latest models can be quite distracting - so for that reason and because the FSPRo fits just as well as the Elite - I would recommend the FSPRo over anything else for the first time buyer.
I know there are many of you out there with strong feelings against technical suits. While I respect your opinions, I am wanting to try a technical suit for the SCY 2011 state/national meets. What I am looking for here are suggestions, tips, and/or recommendations from people who are using technical suits as to what I should be looking for - other than "FINA approved". If you have any advice for someone looking to buy her first technical suit, please let me know. If it makes a difference, I am focusing on mainly freestyle and fly.
Thanks!
If price is an issue, then go with the earlier models/least expensive suits with the best fit for you. When in doubt on size, pick the one that you think will feel the least distracting when you have to wear it for hours and sit in it all damp. Keep in mind you can probably take it off your shoulders, but you probably will be wearing it on the bottom for the duration of your meets.
As a FIRST time buyer/user, I also recommend earlier model suits within each brand because they will be most familiar in feel as suits you are already used to. The technology aspect of the suit won't matter so much in a first time user - because you simply have to get used to swimming in a suit that goes to the knees, and also learning through trial & error on fit and feel.
A first suit is only that; you should expect to buy more in the future. At which point the first suit becomes your backup suit, and so on. So I wouldn't approach it like there is one Right Answer, simply the first one that you buy, and you always can try a different suit the next time.
Dpending on your relationship with teammates, you can also borrow someone's suit!
I do not recommend the BlueSeventy for a first time buyer. I love mine, but I think there are better all-purpose fit and feel suits. It has an extremely small rear end and small chest for the same size as Speedo, so unless you are very fit and have the body line, then this suit is NOT for you!
I recommend the Speedo FSPRo over the LZR Elite for a first time buyer. The Pro is more identifiable in the material feel, and for a first time user, I think there is very little difference in the tech aspect. In particular, I think the no-seam aspect of the latest models can be quite distracting - so for that reason and because the FSPRo fits just as well as the Elite - I would recommend the FSPRo over anything else for the first time buyer.
