Competitive swimwear
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Competitive swimwear generally refers to the apparel, equipment and accessories used in the aquatic sports of swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, triathlon and water polo.
[edit] Basic equipment includes:
Female swimsuits
Male swimsuits
- Competition briefs or speedos
- Jammers
- Legskin
- Kneeskin
- Bodyskin
- A drag suit is a pair of loose or baggy speedo-style trunks (often in a boxer brief style for men) that competitive swimmers may wear over their inner suit during training to provide extra resistance (or drag) from the water. Drag suits are meant to be worn over a long period of time to wear in the material and possibly tear the fabric. The more worn-in, torn or ripped the drag suit, the more resistance it provided the swimmer. Swimmers often knot up tears in a drag suit to enlogate its life and increase resistance. Since drag suits make swimming more difficult, swimmers do not often wear drag suits in competition, unless they wish to continue training undisrupted through the durration of a meet. Drag suits originated as old, torn speedo-style suits that swimmers would wear over their normal speedos. Since the late eighties and early nineties, custom drag suits, usually ordered by colleges, universities and swimming-intensive high schools/boarding schools began to order drag suits for their teams. Women's suits were usually speedo-style suits, each with a team name and/or logo over the chest. Men's suits were usually boxer brief style suits, each with team names and/or logos on the rear. In the late nineties, the boxer brief style suit was manufactured in a mesh-style trunk by the major swimsuit manufacturers, including Speedo, Nike and TYR.
Accessories
Training Gear
- Training fins
- Pull buoy
- Hand Paddles
