Got Speed?

The purpose of fast suits are to make you go faster. I know what your probably thinking right now, how can a suit make you swim faster. Well it can't make you swim faster, but it can make you go faster, and yes there is a difference between them both. The suit won't effect the way you swim, that's all you, but the suit will make you go through the water faster which will decrease your time to make it better. The fast suits are made out of a different material then the swim suits you use to practice in. It is made out of a thinner material. When you buy a fast suit you should buy it at least one size smaller, but if I were you then I would go down more. For example, my suits that I use for practice are a size 30, and my fast suit sizes are 24's. You do that because you want the fast suit to be tight so you can go straight through the water.

There are a ton of brands for fast suits. Them most popular kind that swimmers buy is the Speedo Aquablade Recordbreaker, TYR Fusion 2 (Aeroback), Speedo Fastskin II Recordbreaker, TYR Tracer Light (Aeroback), Speedo FS PRO Recordbreaker, TYR Tracer B-Series (Aeroback), Speedo LZR Elite Recordbreaker, TYR Tracer C-Series (Aeroback), and the Blueseventy Nero TX Swimskin (Female Kneesuit). The stuff in the parenthasis are what the backs are like for the women suits except that the Blueseventy Nero TX Swimskin, only comes in a kneesuit for women, and not a reguakr suit.

Right after the Beijing Olympic Games, most of the new suits were banned and now illegal to wear. USA Swimming and Illinois swimming are the ones who ban the suits. They do that because the world records are keep being broken. USA and Illinois Swimming think that that's because of the new fast suits. They want to make it more challenging to break records.


Below is an example of three fast suits, one men's and two women's. The men can only wear those type of suits, because the leg and body suits for men illegal now. The women can only wear suits that go down to their knees and the regular kind of suits that they wear in practice. The leg skins are also banned for women. Both for men and women's fast suits the high neck ones are also illegal to wear in a meet.

People don't wear fast suits in practice because, like I said before, fast suits make you go faster in the water. In practice you don't want to "go fast". That is what practice if for, is to get fast, not to go fast. So normally in practice people don't wear fast suits, they wear drag suits. A drag suit could just be a worn or stretched out suit that you wear over a regular practice suit. That is what a lot of people do, wear two suits when they practice, to create drag. It helps if you create drag because then when you dive into the water in a meet, with your fast suit on, and with no drag suit then it would be and feel a lot easier swimming!

Go to http://www.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=95&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en and then click on Approved Swimsuits for 2010. Then read the couple pages about the new swimsuit rules for 2010!

Go to http://www.swim-faster.com/ and scroll down a little to read about the fast suit. If you want to read even more than you can click on Speedo Swimsuits and or TYR Swimsuits (on the black bar below the big letters and above the picture) to find out more!