What would Johnny Weissmuller(tarzan)Think?

I wonder what one of the greatest swimmers of all time would think about all these gadgets like pool bouys, kickboards, paddles,flipflops,nose clips ect..? What I find myself amused by isn't so much the number of types of toys, but the variations on each type of toy. I tried to buy some fins recently, and looking at the huge variety recently reviewed in SWIMMER (some of them pretty goofy looking, but who knows?) you have to wonder how much difference all the shapes and materials make. I know that in some cases they do make a difference, in others it just seems like marketing BS. The problem is that it can be hard to tell the difference. I ended up with a pair of TYRs, intermediate length. Haven't tried them yet. I picked them because they were the best fit of the ones that the local store carried. I'm curious to see whether they work well for short-fin and long-fin purposes, or whether they're just mediocre at both.

I wonder what one of the greatest swimmers of all time would think about all these gadgets like pool bouys, kickboards, paddles,flipflops,nose clips ect..? What I find myself amused by isn't so much the number of types of toys, but the variations on each type of toy. I tried to buy some fins recently, and looking at the huge variety recently reviewed in SWIMMER (some of them pretty goofy looking, but who knows?) you have to wonder how much difference all the shapes and materials make. I know that in some cases they do make a difference, in others it just seems like marketing BS. The problem is that it can be hard to tell the difference. I ended up with a pair of TYRs, intermediate length. Haven't tried them yet. I picked them because they were the best fit of the ones that the local store carried. I'm curious to see whether they work well for short-fin and long-fin purposes, or whether they're just mediocre at both.