Roka SIM Swim Jammers ROCK!

Triathlon Forum
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I was shopping on SwimOutlet for a new TYR swim square brief and on a whim bought the Roka SIM Jammers on sale. I had read about them and their use and don’t plan to do all workouts with them. This summer season, starting Jun 1st when our local county public pool opens, all I had to swim in were my Nike jogging baggy shorts. So, I have been in them swimming for about a month, doing 4 sessions a week. I knew that I was slower in them than I normally would in regular swim suit…

I bought the Tyr briefs and Roka SIM jammers. I used the Roka jammers this Tuesday for a 20 x 100 set @ my LT pace zone. Let’s just say this: with the Nike shorts, I’d be about 1:33 ish avg. on these sets b/c of the drag. But, with these Jammers… my average pace was 1:23 to 1:24 (SCY), … so I tightened up the intervals after the first 2 from 1:50 to 1:45… but as I tired on the last 3, the intervals were 1:25-1:26. In the first 10 sets… I was actually keeping my pace in check as it seemed easy, but the sets caught up with me later… lol.

I’m pretty impressed with them… and I can see as I’ve made progress with endurance and form, that I could attempt to swim that set on 1:35 in the not to distant future.

Anyways…my new question is: would these Roka SIM jammers be legal on a non wetsuit legal swim?

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I have them. They are great to train in. BUT they would NOT be legal in a non wetsuit swim.

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Bummer… ha, ha… I’ve never tested the speed difference with my non wetsuit speedsuit… perhaps I should.

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Keep in mind that unless you actually correct the reason for you body position issues or stroke mechanics, you won’t gain much time. Probably similar to swimming with zoomers. You need to fix your flaw first. Could they help with that, yes.