Technical Suit Suggestions?

Think of it this way. Typically, in practice, women wear tanks and men wear briefs. The leg coverage of the tech suits (jammers men, kneeskin women) give both genders the same extra coverage for meets. Giving men double extra coverage would therefore be unfair. You and Jimby will just have to suppress your desire to dress like women. Several points: I am making progress on eliminating my cross dressing inclinations My main point was that the change in suits affects men much more significantly than women, and I still maintain this is the case. The thing I miss most about the fuller coverage for men was that it eliminates the need to shave your torso, which is a major pain. When the hair grows back, the itching involved summons to mind an attack by fire ants. One of the factors that has helped me adjust to the lack of body suits is that it doesn't seem to hurt me MORE than most of my competitors in the age group. The effects are either neutral or slightly positive. This may have to do with my generally weak physique, where no bulging muscles require compressing; or it may be due to my hirsutism, which means that shaving might confer more benefit to me than to more naturally hairless type guys. But the biggest factor is that I am absolutely certain the difference between the world's most expensive technical jammer, and the world's most affordable technical jammer, is not terribly significant, which is in keeping with the spirit of the FINA ruling. The thought of paying $404.95 Arena Powerskin R-EVO + Men's Open Water Suit, for example, is absurd to me when I could spend $97.95 for a TYR Tracer Light Jammer or $49.95 Speedo Aquablade Male Jammer. I would be shocked if any of these suits made more than a tenth of a second or so difference per 50. You women, on the other hand, are still every bit as caught up in the marketing hype of the Speedo's and Arena's as you were at the height of the floatie suit era. The reason: contrary to the spirit of the FINA ruling, you honestly believe (and probably with good reason) that it's still possible to buy speed--not just a few hundredths of a second of speed, but significant time drops, all thanks to body coverage and torso compression. You also have to worry about spending a lot of time at each meet suiting up without busting your $600 investment! How I pity you!

Think of it this way. Typically, in practice, women wear tanks and men wear briefs. The leg coverage of the tech suits (jammers men, kneeskin women) give both genders the same extra coverage for meets. Giving men double extra coverage would therefore be unfair. You and Jimby will just have to suppress your desire to dress like women. Several points: I am making progress on eliminating my cross dressing inclinations My main point was that the change in suits affects men much more significantly than women, and I still maintain this is the case. The thing I miss most about the fuller coverage for men was that it eliminates the need to shave your torso, which is a major pain. When the hair grows back, the itching involved summons to mind an attack by fire ants. One of the factors that has helped me adjust to the lack of body suits is that it doesn't seem to hurt me MORE than most of my competitors in the age group. The effects are either neutral or slightly positive. This may have to do with my generally weak physique, where no bulging muscles require compressing; or it may be due to my hirsutism, which means that shaving might confer more benefit to me than to more naturally hairless type guys. But the biggest factor is that I am absolutely certain the difference between the world's most expensive technical jammer, and the world's most affordable technical jammer, is not terribly significant, which is in keeping with the spirit of the FINA ruling. The thought of paying $404.95 Arena Powerskin R-EVO + Men's Open Water Suit, for example, is absurd to me when I could spend $97.95 for a TYR Tracer Light Jammer or $49.95 Speedo Aquablade Male Jammer. I would be shocked if any of these suits made more than a tenth of a second or so difference per 50. You women, on the other hand, are still every bit as caught up in the marketing hype of the Speedo's and Arena's as you were at the height of the floatie suit era. The reason: contrary to the spirit of the FINA ruling, you honestly believe (and probably with good reason) that it's still possible to buy speed--not just a few hundredths of a second of speed, but significant time drops, all thanks to body coverage and torso compression. You also have to worry about spending a lot of time at each meet suiting up without busting your $600 investment! How I pity you!