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.
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