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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Guys, Tuckahoe is leading the charge on posting the ladder, right?? Because those parents are by far the craziest summer swim parents around.[/quote]

OKM posts a ladder, and there aren’t crazies. It’s a lovely team with lovely families and kids. My child sometimes makes it, sometimes doesn’t, but we know it’s 100% on the up and up, particularly since we have a lot of depth in some age groups.[/quote]

OKM is not as chill as they say.  They expect everyone to "suit up" for meets and actually collect tech suits for those that don't swim club and would not have them.  That is nice that they do it, but that is an expectation for crazy.

It is a 50 meter swim.  A tech suit is not going to make a real difference but they tell the swimmers it will.[/quote]

OKM only allows tech suits for all swimmers at divisional relays, divisionals, ASRs, and All-Stars. The exception to that is for swimmers who are within a (let’s say) 1 second to .5 second possibility of breaking a team record. Now, OKM has gotten a lot better and faster over the last five years. That means a lot of records are going down every meet. So you will see occasional kneeskins or tech suits at dual meets solely because the swimmer is trying to break a team record. And I think that’s perfectly fine!, You are wrong about 13U tech suits not being useful in 50 m races. They are definitely useful in 50 m races! Otherwise, why would every single professional swimmer wear them in the sprint races? Honestly, it’s much like going to PVS Champs when you’re at Divisionals in D1. Every swimmer wears them, whether it’s a 12U kneeskin or 13U tech suit. It’s just the uniform at these meets. [/quote]

Case in point on 13U tech suits:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKEYtRaIXVU/?igsh=b3hrejFlenFrcWt5I’m [/quote]

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