Originally posted by fred1
1) I think that the shark skin suits or that weird folding skate are technological improvements equivalent to the electro pneumatic evolution in paintball. In a way electronics have made paintball easier in certain aspects but have also made it harder in others and have enhanced performance. The sport is young and these are things that are going to appear until we reach a certain limit..... But to come back to swimming or skating, these improvements don't make the sport any easier. You still need to push as hard as you can on your legs and arms to move as fast as you can, so the effort is not reduced, it just enhances the performances.
2)I think that running and shooting with a semi is harder that with an FA. Maybe I'm wrong...
3)I don't know anyone that can't walk a trigger and for those really uncoordinated people all I can say is sorry. 
But it just takes a little practice to develop the right muscles and coordination in your fingers. You don't have to dry fire and annoy everybody (damn I hate that ), you can practice tapping on a table, sterring wheel etc......
And I can't believe some teams are leaving young aggressive players on the bench because they can't walk the trigger as fast as another guy in this case a big guy that can't move. What are we talking about a 2 or 3 ball difference.... thats a bit dodgy. And I think those teams will see that they gain a far greater advantage with young back players that can move up field. Any way if you know how to snapshoot you will end up gaining advantage on your opponent and its not a 2 or 3 balls more or less sailing past your obastacle that are going to make a difference. 10 or 15 balls sailing centimeters away from your obstacle are going to keep you from popping your head out.
4) And honestly it sounds dangerous. Maybe it's something we should leave to the pros.... but I don't like.
1) Makes no sense at all. Those inventions I mentioned actually made things easier. With the suit drag is reduced, therefore it is easier to swim faster. It even made the impossible possible! People could swim faster than they normally could! yes, you still have to put the effort in, but if you want to put up the same numbers you did without the suit, you don't have to put in as much effort as you did without the suit. If you do put the effort in, you get even better result, therefore it made swimming easier. Same applies for the skate.
2) Yes running and shooting with a semi will be harder than with FA. But staying alive is easier if everybody shoots semi. So while it makes things easier on some points, it makes things harder someplace else.
3) No argument there.
4) What sounds more dangerous? 15BPS at FA, or 18BPS at semi as seems to be the norm now?
Honestly, just playing a little devil's advocate here, but I have yet to hear any GOOD reasons to vote against it. Even that safety outside the field thing, with guns ripping through barrel socks at first sounded legit, but all that takes is a new design of barrel sock. An investment of a few dollars... As far as pit crew goes, it makes no sense that they can walk around with no masks now, so it shouldn't be allowed then either.
