IU Purdue Swimming and Diving Meet

[SwimTeamSpeedo]

I'm not surprised that you saw the guys in race briefs. I have noticed the trend over the few years at the high school level has been back to briefs, a little more each year. In fact, I posted last year that the team I coach was jammer-less for the first time in years. This year I have two guys who do jammers, but they are getting prodded by the other guys to switch back to briefs. I think the end of the long leg and full body tech suits might have part to do with it. Also, swimmers like Ryan Lochte, Michael Phelps and Diver Tom Delay, who are very comfortable and confident in briefs might also be a driver. At the college level, I don't think briefs ever really went totally out of appeal, many of the best swimmers hate the feel of the lycra grabbing their legs. In the end, however, it is about the suit that will help produce the best time, and at the college level every bit helps in a close event. I am jealous of a swim meet on TV. The best we had in college was the occasional photo spread on the sports page.

[Swimmboy]

I was at the Navy/Penn State meet last weekend - all the guys except maybe 2 wore brief suits. This is not unusual - college guys almost all wear brief racing suits for their in-season meets against another school. However, the next few weeks will be the meets that REALLY matter - the conference championships (Big Ten, Pac-10, SEC, ACC, etc.), and I guarantee you nearly all the guys will race in jammer suits. Why? It has nothing to do with 'modesty' - the longer suits cover more of your skin with that super-slick, super-fast fabric, and encasing the upper legs in the jammers supports the thigh muscles so they don't get tired as quickly (this told to me by a college swimmer a few years ago).

[Byron]

http://grandmaskitchentable.typepad....0185970d-800wi

[sebbie]

yes, exactly

[afewgoodmen]

Byron -- thats a very nice pic you posted the link to

[thisweirdthing1985]

Originally Posted by Byron

http://grandmaskitchentable.typepad....0185970d-800wi

yeah, very nice suits!

[California Dolphin]

On the subject of swimming, here's site that has a lot of videos of guys in conventional speedos:

www.GoSwim.Tv

[Byron]

vids also at: http://www.purduesports.com/sports/m...013014aaa.html

[miloandtock1]

I swim three days a week at the Purdue Aquatic Center...and occasionally the men's swim team practices. You see a whole range of body types and sizes, but its the speedos that are attention gathering. I think back in the fall there was a big fundraiser for breast cancer, and the guys had special suits made that various shades of pink, with some grey, white, black in there. They wear them for local meets and for practice, but mostly the guys wear black speedo briefs, as do the divers, although one or two have the red, white, blue USA brief. The Health and Kinesiology Dept runs a swimming class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings for majors and anyone into phys ed or training or therapy, there is always one guy, sometimes a second, rarely a third of the dozen or so guys in the class, that wears a Purdue brief speedo - but its not plain black, it is a mix of black, white, and gold, with the word Purdue on the backside and the train and big P along the side. I've never seen a swim team member in these, so I am wondering where they come from, maybe the old practice suit, but these boys in the class are not on the team, they are in a class. Either way, it does make the mornings that I swim laps very nice to see these guys in little speedos, the one guy is especially a hottie, with a great butt, decent bulge too.

[louis]

Wow When Swimmers And Divers Persuade Outher Swimmers And Divers To Wear Speedos Thats A Good Sign For Speedos Returning To The Trends, Welcome Back To Speedos Swimmers And Divers, Bye Bye Ugh Jammers And All That &?%*&?% Trash Used To Swim And Dive. Just The Though Of It Makes Me Hard, Woweeeeeee.....