Fastskil drag experiments!

[mammamedley]

Thought this was interesting - any comments? www.ifkb.nl/B4/fastskin.html (http://www.ifkb.nl/B4/fastskin.html)

[Steve Robertson]

I don't know about Fastskin, but I recently bought an Adidas fullbody swimsuit, and I found drag was definitely reduced.

I'm not an athlete, but I found that when lane swimming, during my initial push-off from the side of the pool underwater I found I was going further and deeper than when wearing aquablade trunks.

In fact I was nearly hitting the bottom of the pool, until I got used to the lower drag.

The suits aren't supposed to increase boyancy either, but I felt more boyant when swimming on the surface too.