I've never used that particular drag suit, but I wear my mesh drag suit every practice, with a second suit underneath it. It only comes off for meets.

Different drag suits have different effects, even ones that look like they should be the same. I have 2 drag suits, my old black one and my new lime green. Both are speedo mesh suits, but the green one is about 1 -2 secs per 100 slower than the black one. Both are nominally the same size, but the green is stretchier.

Board shorts would be a lot slower, but also are a lot more restrictive, and are annoying. board shorts are for the beach or the wading pool.

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What is the point of a drag suit?

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They last forever, even longer than speedo endurance suits, are comfy, and a little more modest than briefs.

I like the psychological boost that comes when you take off the drag suit for a meet.

They aren't necessary at all, I never had one before this year. Will it actually make me faster, probably not directly. But, it does force you to work a little harder to keep up with / stay ahead of your lanemates in a squad setting.

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I always use the speedo polymesh square leg, but for some ultra short sets I even put on the finis 4-pocket drag suit on top of that. Going to a jammer or brief feels (and is) much faster for me at the same effort level. However in my last swim meet I wore a brief and didn't quite have the greatest walls (they came up too fast in the 100fr), maybe my timing with the faster suit was off idk.

The first time I swam in a pool in my wetsuit (I had four days between purchase and my first triathlon) I almost killed myself on the first wall, I had so much speed and glide going.

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Ugh. I always hated the ones with pockets. Take them off though and you feel like you're shaved and tapered in the middle of high volume training. I don't need any equipment to make me feel slow anymore though.

This.

I only had to replace my previous drag suit because I lost it. I am on my second drag suit since I left high school, though I have had to replace the draw string a few times. I wear a speedo underneath that I replace way less often than I should.

I wear one most of the time. Tight enough I one need one suit but the mesh gives a little bit of drag say 1-1.5/100.

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2020 National Masters Champion - M40-44 - 400m IM
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