Made a public proclamation that when I hit a certain swim time goal I’d feel like a “real” enough swimmer to get a speedo. Well, I hit that goal and am now looking for something pretty flashy.
Plenty of “water polo briefs” in fantastic patterns and colors. Is that equivalent to a (lower case) speedo? Are they suitable for ridiculously fast swimming? Can I do Omaha in 2016 in a pair?
It has a slightly different cut than a traditional speedo and they tend to be made from a thicker/slippier material that is less elastic. You will not notice a different.
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Different cut, stronger material, and traditionally they didn’t have any inner ‘lining’. You usually wear three or four suits playing water polo. The inner most one is usually a real speedo, and the outer ones were either old speedos that had been eaten up by chlorine, or water polo suits. The outer layer suits in water polo are usually sacrificial lambs.
Growing up real fish wore drag suits on top of speedos to practice in and then just speedos to compete in, but that was just before the invention of the ‘shark skin’ suits, then the jammers, full body suits…
Growing up real fish wore drag suits on top of speedos to practice in and then just speedos to compete in, but that was just before the invention of the ‘shark skin’ suits, then the jammers, full body suits…
Yes…minus the speedo
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Yes…minus the speedo
I don’t know about you…but the drag suit I wore was made out of a mesh basketball short like material. I can’t even imagine the chaffage that would have occurred if I hadn’t have been wearing something a little more forgiving underneath.
Yes…minus the speedo I don’t know about you…but the drag suit I wore was made out of a mesh basketball short like material. I can’t even imagine the chaffage that would have occurred if I hadn’t have been wearing something a little more forgiving underneath.
Never had that problem with this one
Obviously it depends on the specific construction of the suit, but proper water polo suits really do not stretch at all. My water polo suit did not stretch at all except in the waist. Speedos are stretchy in every direction. They fit completely differently–the speedo will conform to you, the water polo suit will deform you until you fit in it. There is a marked difference between the two.
Water polo suits are way more durable than a regular Lycra speedo. They are cut differently as previously mentioned; lower waist and higher at the hips and don’t stretch like speedos. Rock it if you can fit in them. Turbo suits have some pretty flash designs and are fully lined.
Both of my “speedos” are polo briefs. While the fit is different (I had to go up a size). They tend to fit nice and snug, so you will not have to tighten them as much when you are putting them on. I think I don’t need to do this, as the material does not stretch as much. I bought my first “polo brief” about 2 years ago and I don’t think I will go back to regular “speedos” as they last a lot longer and the designs tend to be a lot more flashy. While I don’t know if they are faster or not than the traditional “speedo”, it will make you look faster.
Water polo is a contact sport, a water polo brief is built out of material similar to a football jersey so that it can not be ripped. A “speedo” is typically made out of lycra and is much more comfortable.