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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At what point is a 12&U posting fast enough times that a tech suit will make a difference?  I'm thinking here of the physics/drag, not of the comfort/psychological benefit (which I don't doubt could be genuine).  Curious![/quote]

A coach once described it this way to my child: imagine a cake. It has no icing and tastes really, really good. If you add just so-so icing to it, it is still pretty good. If you add amazing icing to it, it will taste really good. And if your cake was terrible to begin with, no amount of icing will fix it.

Being a good swimmer is the cake. The suit is the icing. It has a very small effect beyond a psychological one, but when  you are very good, that small effect matters. [/quote]
I like this analogy! For the 12Us, most of the kids at the champs meets wear them, so that is usually the entry point for tech suits because the kid making one of those meets for the 1st time sees all the other kids wearing them. Then those kids wear them to their regular meets (PVS Opens, etc.), which is how you end up with whole swaths of a particular team wearing them, even the swimmers who won’t come close to making meets with cut times. [/quote]

I tell my swimmers to save them for championship meets or later in the season if there is an event that they have not qualified for and need to.  I want them qualifying in a regular suit, so when they "suit up" it will be a mental push.[/quote]

A slow swimmer in a tech suit is a bold move. Kids will make fun of your kid if they get decked out in the best gear you can buy and then post B times [/quote]

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