Yes, college teams still wear brief Speedos!

[Swimmboy]

http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/photo-gallery-alabama-sweeps-delta-state-to-open-season/

The US college meet season has begun (though these early meets are more for fun and tune-ups, not serious head-to-head competition). But here is photographic evidence that teams still wear the brief suits for most of their in-season meets.

[shaulis]

When college's have swim meets I hardly ever see briefs just jammers. Maybe those colleges only let the swimmers wear briefs at some meets not the big meets.

[California Dolphin]

Glad that briefs are making a strong comeback.

But I hope they will eventually get rid of jammers for once and for all.

[Swimmboy]

shaulis wrote:

When college's have swim meets I hardly ever see briefs just jammers. Maybe those colleges only let the swimmers wear briefs at some meets not the big meets.


Yes - at the big meets such as conference championships and NCAA championships in Feb. and March, most swimmers wear jammers. But that is only two meets per year - at the meets in Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec., and Jan., i.e., the vast majority of college meets - most swimmers compete in brief suits. So check your local college's athletic dept. web site, attend some of their home fall and winter swim meets, and enjoy!

[miloandtock1]

Yes the dual meets or tri-meets or smaller non-divisional meets - the men's team all wear speedos of some style. I can vouch for that at Purdue, the dual meet a couple weeks ago against Western Kentucky all the Purdue men wore their team black speedo with the Purdue logo.

[Dooley67]

This morning I went to the Y to swim my laps and was a little irritated to see that the swim team from the high school across the river was using the pool for a practice and what looked like an intrasquad meet. So I was relegated to the other pool, the one whose water temperature is 85. I managed to literally sweat out 18 laps before calling it quits.

What was interesting to see was that many of the guys were wearing briefs with the rest wearing jammers. It looked pretty evenly divided. So, high school guys are wearing briefs, not only for their meets, but for practice as well.

D67

[California Dolphin]

This morning I went to the Y to swim my laps and was a little irritated to see that the swim team from the high school across the river was using the pool for a practice and what looked like an intrasquad meet. So I was relegated to the other pool, the one whose water temperature is 85. I managed to literally sweat out 18 laps before calling it quits.

What was interesting to see was that many of the guys were wearing briefs with the rest wearing jammers. It looked pretty evenly divided. So, high school guys are wearing briefs, not only for their meets, but for practice as well.

D67 Anyone who's worn them*** know that Jammers are very irritating and restrictive of movement. Once the rational wears off that jammers are magically faster, swimmers will go back to briefs.

*** I bought a couple of packages of jammer style underwear (because they were on sale, not because I liked them) and tried them on. The feeling is horrible and that's the end of my experience with wearing long legged shorts of any type.

[sebbie]

Guys buy and wear jammers mainly because they think they cover more, and the shape pf their anatomy will be less obvious to onlookers, if at all. But I've seen photos of guys in (wet?) jammers whose anatomy(ies) was (were) painfully obvious, moreso than had they been wearing a brief, even. I suppose a person could wear a really snug strap underneath to minimize the bump, but that may be merely painful when swimming.

This is part of the old "double standard". Women delight in showing off the curves and bumps of the female anatomy, and no one even gives it all a second thought. But the bumps and curves of the male anatomy are a no-no. Weird!

Sebbie

[Torchwatch]

I was in the changing room getting ready to leave the pool as the club swimmers came in. They were wearing speedos under their jammers, so perhaps jammers don't give the support that these swimmers were wanting.

When I tried a pair of Maru Lycra jammers I disliked how they felt in the water. They didn't give free movement and constantly felt they were about to fall down.
I wear Lycra cycle shorts all the time on my bikes, they feel right sliding across the saddle. When I wore my Maru jammers around the campsite and when walking to and from the beach they felt ok, but I just don't like them in the water.

I notice this winter that a lot of young people are wearing tight jeans, last summer the fashion was for fairly tight knee length denim shorts. So maybe if we get a decently warm spring and summer we will get back to shorter freer shorts and maybe more speedos.

[sebbie]

The bands made up of teen boys set the trends in male fashion, and whatever works for them gets to be part of the larger scene. That the girls oggle the boy bands is not lost on other teen males, and they emulate. Soon the idea becomes widely adopted.

Boy bands were among the first to show up in pencil jeans, often black but other colors like kahki or stone too

If boy bands sung in brief swimwear, that would becopme the style too.

[afewgoodmen]

I clicked on the link and the first pic has a hot guy in a speedo. He's the guy with the light beard standing on the right side of the diver. He has a hot 6-pack stomach.

Anybody care to help me figure out who that is on the team?

I looked at the team roster but found a few possibilities :(

[Swimmboy]

Hard to say from that photo - maybe Brett Walsh? But this could have been a 'stock photo' - i.e., one the web site had on file from a year or two ago. Sometimes they use an old photo as long as it shows the right team...

[afewgoodmen]

Thanks Swimboy...when I went to the Univ of Alabama athletics website and searched the roster for the swim team, I saw Bret Walsh (from South Africa) as the closest individual that resembled the boy to the left of the diver (which would be to the right side looking at it from our perspective).

Hot guy with a hot body and cute face! :)

[afewgoodmen]

Who helped confirm that the individual to the left of the diver (to the right of the diver if you are looking at the picture) with a beautiful face and scorching body is in fact Brett Walsh.

Byron even went as far as finding Brett Walsh's email. I think I might shoot him.

Thanks again Byron!

[speedotime]

Who helped confirm that the individual to the left of the diver (to the right of the diver if you are looking at the picture) with a beautiful face and scorching body is in fact Brett Walsh.

Byron even went as far as finding Brett Walsh's email. I think I might shoot him.

Thanks again Byron!

What are you going to say to him?

[afewgoodmen]

What are you going to say to him?

I just asked basic questions about his time on the butterfly swim. It's something that I love to do and watch others doing.

It's quite a challenging stroke.

Lets see if he answers back. :eek:

[speedotime]

Did he reply?

[crawler]

At the FINA World Masters in Montreal this summer, there were lots of guys of all ages and shapes in Speedos, especially wild, colourful ones. More jammers than Speedos, but a good mix nonetheless. Guys were walking around the outdoor pools all day looking hot and sexy. (I'd add a picture but when I click the icon, it asks for a url, so not sure how to add an image file.)

[afewgoodmen]

Did he reply?

He has not replied. I'm sure college (it says that he is an engineering major) along with swim has him by the tail.

[afewgoodmen]

Who helped confirm that the individual to the left of the diver (to the right of the diver if you are looking at the picture) with a beautiful face and scorching body is in fact Brett Walsh.

Byron even went as far as finding Brett Walsh's email. I think I might shoot him.

Thanks again Byron!

I found Brett Walsh on Facebook. He's got some great pics of himself (a few in speedos).

If you search him on facebook, he's the one located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

[afewgoodmen]

Well, Brett Walsh was nice enough to write a response back.

He guided me to his videos of him and his teammates swimming.

Here is what he wrote:

"" Hi Joey,

Sorry just saw this e-mail now, I've been in Austin, Texas.
I don't have any videos but my university does.
Go onto http://www.dartfish.tv/ make yourself an account and then search
for the university of alabama, there are a lot of videos on that site!

Keep on doing what you're doing now! the world needs more swimmers!

Roll Tide,
Brett ""

[afewgoodmen]

I guess he set some really good records lately...according to the Univ of Alabama facebook page :)

nice legs!

[afewgoodmen]

Here is the article on his times..
http://www.rolltide.com/sports/c-swim/spec-rel/021615aaa.html

[Swimmboy]

Thanks for sharing the pix and info about those hot 'Bama swimboys!

[Dooley67]

I couldn't find the old link to this topic so this might be a little off topic here. The last two days at the Y, there were two young guys, probably about 16 or 17 doing different sprints, free, back, fly, etc. Each was wearing a tight fitting square cut; one of the guys' suit was pretty low cut. They must be on one of the local high school teams - this is school vacation week so they were just getting in some fun time and swimming against each other. It was nice to see them in the square cuts when they didn't need to wear those suits since it wasn't a swim practice. They were comfortable and clearly having fun and seemed to be pretty confident in what they were wearing. It was very nice to see some of the younger set in those suits. As for the older set, I was the only other person wearing a brief, my Turbo Ipanema. No big deal.

D67

[Captain.Jammer]

... The last two days at the Y, there were two young guys, probably about 16 or 17 doing different sprints, free, back, fly, etc. Each was wearing a tight fitting square cut; one of the guys' suit was pretty low cut. They must be on one of the local high school teams - this is school vacation week so they were just getting in some fun time and swimming against each other. ...

D67
I wonder if they were practice drag suits? Seems like they are all sqaurecuts.

http://www.swimoutlet.com/mens-drag-suits-c9264/

I don't know much about swimsuits, but from what I have read they wear them during practices to make it more of a challenge to swim, so that they work harder and improve. Then, during competition, they can go even faster without the drag effect.

[Dooley67]

I think they were drag suits because it looked like one of the guys had a speedo on underneath.

[SwimTeamSpeedo]

Sound like drag suits,especially if you could see the suit underneath, although Nike has come out with a shorter cut jammer that looks more like a square cut. Back in my swim team days we did wear drag suits. I hated them because I liked wearing my swimsuits. They did make a difference, though in your speed. Ours had tears and pockets in them to really slow you down. They were for a purpose, but some of the guys also liked that they made the revealing nature of their swimsuits less obvious. In fact, a few guys wore them at meets over their swim briefs between sets, slipping them off only for the race.

D67, I am seeing more and more high school age swimmers in briefs over the last few years. I am not going to say jammers are losing steam, but more and more serious swimmers and coaches are going back to briefs, imo. The local teams use the pool I swim at, coming in early in the morning. We often overlap and I would say 80% of the guys are in brief cut suits. All the guys on the AAU team that I help at occasionally are in briefs. They then switch to tech suits for races that have a jammer cut.

STS

[California Dolphin]

The idea of using a drag suit for better conditioning during practice does not have any technical merit.

The water resistance is what actually provides muscle conditioning. Although a drag suit makes you swim slower, it does not add any strength because the opposition to the movement of arms and legs is the same with - or with out the suit.

As for jammers, they are an impediment to leg movement and you're better off wearing a minimal suit.