And LS didn’t wear the form goggles so good pacing by him it looks like. //
Dont believe they are allowed in swim meets. And having his last 100 as his fastest is most likely a good sign that he went out super easy and controlled. Like many have said, really need context before drawing any conclusions. But watching the Sam video, seems like it was his goal to hit 20 minutes, so he was right there.
And to whoever said that race jammers are worth 3 seconds a 100, maybe against board shorts, but perhaps a 1/2 second from other race style legal wear. The full compression full suits of the suit era were only worth about a second a 100 for most of the pro guys, some a little more, some a little less. So taking away 2/3 of that fabric and compression is certainly gonna make it much less of an advantage…
It’s possible that race jammers give some 2+ minute per 100m folks 3 seconds, but these guys are not that…
Doesn’t make sense that tech suits cost AU $1200 if they only make 1/2s difference? Are parents really paying that for their kids for 0.5s of an improvement? And these suits don’t last long. Maybe it’s different for us gumby athletes. My openwater suit feels incredible, superquick and my swimskin , not as quick, but also feels great in the water. 1/2s over 100m is 1/4s over 50m so in other words negligible. In theory you would put it on and feel no different and swim no different. And if a $1200 tech-suit gives you 1/4s over 50m, what does a $300 tech-suit give you 1/8s? GTN did a bathers v swimskin and Fraser had only a 3s gain with wearing a swimskin. That’s not even 0.5s per 50m…If that’s the benefit of wearing a swimskin why would anyone bother paying $400 for a swimskin?
Were the 6 sec gains over 400m or??? In what distance pool or in OW??? I’ve swum in a long john wettie, and of course in just a Speedo brief, but never in a swimskin so I am genuinely curious.
From GTN - that was in a 50m pool, 400m. My arena OWS suit is amazing. Takes 20mins to put on and costs $500 but feels very different in the water. A recent sprint I ended up wearing my swimskin even though wetsuit legal and was 21/256 in the swim. For me wettie is faster, but swimskin not far off and in this race run to t1 was longer so reckon swimskin was good call. But if you look at the data and tests online, you save 5/6s wearing a swimskin and it takes the same time to take off? Why bother?
So about 1.5 sec/100 m. I figured these skins must be worth 1 or 2 sec/100 m since all the top OW swimmers wear them in races. Thanks for the info!!!