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 2015-10-12 8:38 AM |
 3 |  Subject: Home made Buoyancy shortsAfternoon all. before I reached 40 I decided to learn how to swim. A year later I decided to set myself the challenge of doing an open water mile swim. A year after that I decided to do an Olympic distance triathlon. This year I want to improve my time  The reason for the post is that for the past year or so I have swam in the pool with a pull buoy between my legs. I have now decided to try and get a bit more power from my legs. In the pool last night someone mentioned that my legs were very low, and that "Johnny" had a similar problem until he got a pair of Buoyancy shorts I assume a bit like these http://www.wiggle.co.uk/zone3-buoyancy-shorts/?lang=en&curr=GBP&des... My question is, not to the effectiveness of this type of short, or whether I will become dependent on them. I have NEVER competed without wearing a wetsuit, and never will, so every training aid helps. But would it be possible to make a pair myself, cutting down an old shortie wetsuit (say one for wakebaording) into a pair of shorts..........or would these offer a different type of buoyancy? Thanks in advance for the guidance on this. K |
| 2015-10-12 8:38 PM in reply to: kiteman69 |
360   Ottawa, Ontario | Subject: RE: Home made Buoyancy shorts It'll be the same type of buoyancy, but you'll have to be careful about the waist area in order to keep water out. I'd think you'll likely want to sew in a drawstring around the waist in order to cinch it tight. As the the logic of "I never race in non-wetsuit swims, so might as well simulate a wetsuit in training all the time", there may be some validity to that, however, you are shortchanging yourself by not learning how to swim properly. In my experience, swimming with buoyancy shorts is good for teaching you what proper body positioning should feel like, but it doesn't teach you how to properly employ the whole kinetic chain in order to achieve that. Getting that good body position by employing proper technique and power will make you a faster swimmer, even if you only ever race in a wetsuit. Nothing wrong with using those shorts, but it shouldn't be all you ever do if your goal is to become a faster swimmer. If you just want to enjoy your swims and this will help you do that, then have at it. |
| 2015-10-13 3:46 AM in reply to: SenatorClayDavis |
| 3 | Subject: RE: Home made Buoyancy shorts Thanks Senator. I will look for something "cheap" on e8ay. That way I won't cry too much when it gets binned in a month or 2s time |
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