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Now, would it really even make a difference if that guy was wearing jammers?
oh my…
It is always the Euro dudes…go on vacation some time…hit the beach, the Italian women do NOT shave their Wookie looking legs and the men ALL wear speedos. I hate women with “happy trails”…
I remember in high school we would put on nearly every suit we owned. As they wore out you just put another layer on. Seemed like something like 3-4 diferent suits on all in tatters and hopefully between all of them you were covered. We thought we looked pretty cool. Now you have to pay extra for this and they call it a drag suit.
Mike
Now, would it really even make a difference if that guy was wearing jammers?
Only if they were black, because it’s soooo slimming.
I started swimming competitively in 1974…
I hate jammers!!! I wear a small speedo under a drag suit for practice – and pool meets and ocean swim races - I go old school (and so do most others racing (rather than ‘participating’)
Frankly I do not understand fashion. Women are wearing less and less clothing – Men are wearing more and more.
I hate baggy shorts – when I try and run inbaggy shorts they either bunch up under my legs or I feel them tugging on the front of my thigh. Again – I haveto shop long and hard but I can still find old school running shorts.
Baggy shirts – these are the main culprit in bleeding nipples on men – I never had a problem until baggy came into style. So now I am back to wearing tigher singlets when I run.
Don’t try and tell me that baggy is more comfortable – I tried it and I hate it.
One other thing…
I have been into triathlon for 11 years, I lift weights, watch what I eat. Yet, walking around in “Street Clothes” you can’t tell. If a guy is super skinny with no muscles – can’t see it – the clothes are baggy. If a guy is fat and out of shape – can’t see it. Clothes are baggy and the shirt untucked. Can’t tell.
Whatever.
When i go to the beach - i will wear the baggy board shorts - but if I am going to go for a workout – the speedos are what i am wearing.
Old school is the best school
Our high school team suit was green and white stripes. Being high-schoolers, we had more important things to spend our meager cash funds than training suits, so we’d wear the team suit at practice. The sun penetrates the white stripes more than the green and we all had striped butts.
hahah whats the deal with ‘drag suits’? and ‘jammers’ degrade REAL fast for training, id just save em for racing if i was a swimmer (they are supposed to be fastest suit for breaststroke). people moaning about ya speedos getting saggy…wear more than 1 pair. just about every swimmer i know/have known would often wear more than 1 pair of togs for training. the good pairs were saved for racing only.
same goes for goggles. plain ole speedos are the best to train in.
Here is me training a Francois training me on how to dive into the pool…
Booth you are so wrong on that one. I love to wear Jammers ie surf trunks at the Y pool and kick most of the lap swimmers asses. Yea I used to swim in college, and I am way slower than I used to be, but I can still hold 1:10 -1:15 for ten hundreds on the 2 min or min half if I push. They provide plenty of drag, then when you wear your lycra you feel like flying. So the baggier the better.
Living in Hawaii helps cause on some days I wear them as all purpose shorts. Go get groceries, go beach, ride mtb for an hr. Watch TV, drink a few beers, take wife out for dinner and never change pants, on and off T-shirt a few times and change slippers to running shoes as needed. Can’t get away with that in cold climes, but in Hawaii it is a lifestyle. G
I don’t think that the jammers are a dead give away on whether or not you are a triathlete. The dead give away is the googles. I’m not sure if these guys are trying out for the Navy SEALS or recreating a Jacques Cousteau documentary. Talk about added drag.
That’s about exactly what I have worked up in the swim.
Why are we going off on the 2:00? The guy I swim with does a 150 for each 100 I do in a 25 yard pool. He’ll say, “You Puss,” right before his flip turn for his third lap, while I’m sitting there getting that wonderful 45 seconds, for the 2:00. He’ll barely crawl in under the 2:00, and off I go.
Its just wonderful.
He wears a Speedo.
googles
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"Women are wearing less and less clothing – Men are wearing more and more. "
That’s only partially true - the part about the men.
Since I’m 53, I’m part of that “hipster” generation that was young when men wore their hair long, their pants tight, Led Zepplin ruled and nobody wore boxer shorts except your grandfather.
The big baggy ten sizes too big look didn’t exist back then. I think a lot could be because there is a much higher % of fat guys in their 20’s and early 30’s than 20-30 yrs ago. The baggier male clothing is designed to try to hide it.
Women’s clothing hasn’t changed very much in the last forty years. Brief bikinis and mini-skirts date from the mid 60’s, so there is nothing really new in women’s clothing. They change the styles and retro them from time to time but it’s all been done before in women’s fashion. The hip hugger bell bottoms that young women are wearing now were common in the early 70’s, except back then, both guys and gals tended to wear them. A few years ago when my daughter was still a teenager she was thrilled to find a pair of my old early 70’s cordoroy bell bottoms in the attic. Apparently this was all the retro rage.
Just look at some 60/70/80 old fashion magazines, especially the Euro ones since they were always ahead of North America in style trends. It’s all been done before in women’s fashions.
53 here, too. I wore speedos. After seeing a bunch of guys wearing jammers at the Rose Bowl and having swum a few times in the pool in my Tri shorts, and finding them at half price, I tried a pair. They are both in my swim bag, but I prefer the jammers. Of course, since I have a butt kinda’ like a black guy (except it is attached to short legs and it’s hairier), I never cared for the speedos.
Wait just a minute here! Isn’t Booth from/in Arkansas? 'Nuff said.
Take your sport fashion cues from the only place that is qualified… California. Jammers, fellas, jammers.
The best looking guy in our lane wears knee-length jammers. He has a hard time keeping up in those things, but I doubt the suit is to blame. Whatever, I don’t care. He’s about 10 years younger than me and looks good on Sat. morning. What more can a girl ask for?
What more can a girl ask for? **For this post not to be brought up at practice on Saturday? Oh, that’s right I have to miss this Saturday’s practice. **
"(ok not that big) and 34…not that young… "
To rephrase correctly, not that small and not that old. 