Tuesday, November 06, 2007

TYR has seemingly stop selling the male full body 'Aqua Shift' suits

Dang it, I wanted one for Christmas! I also felt that the TYR trip wire technology and the science behind it made the TYR Aqua Shift the fastest suit ever made. At the TYR website they are still selling the rest of the Aqua Shift line but not the full body suit. [Link]

From Wikipedia: The research for the TYR Aqua Shift was done by the University at Buffalo, where it was supervised by senior professors of physiology and biomechanical engineering. TYR worked with CRESE; [They do wok for the military], to design a highly-effective hydrodynamic suit.

Wave drag is one of the forms of drag created by swimmers, the others being pressure drag and friction drag. Wave drag is created by every movement a swimmer makes in the water. The more wave drag is created, the more energy a swimmer must put out to make progress through the water. Therefore, anything that reduces wave drag will theoretically make it easier for a swimmer to swim faster. The Aqua shift suit is claimed to reduce wave drag by as much as 53%, according to the research done by TYR. Their research also claims that the suit reduces drag overall by as much as 10% and pressure drag by 18%.

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