New Swimwear Company Added - Jaked

I know you all must think I fell off the edge of the earth somewhere back in March, so I appreciate the support from a few followers of this blog who know what's been keeping me busy lately and away from blogging (eldercare for a family member). I will be posting sporadically again over the next couple of weeks while occupied with these personal issues. So I thank you for sticking with Wet Speedos. Sorry once again for the recent lack of posts.

I added a link today in the Swimming Gear section (below, left) to a company I'd not heard of before -- Italian manufacturer Jaked -- which was referred to in a recent post on Tony Austin's Southern California Aquatic Club (SCAQ) blog (http://scaq.blogspot.com/). Tony's SCAQ blog is just a wonderful journal, resource and photo gallery of all things swimming. Here's the photo from Tony's posting on Wednesday about the controversies over urethane coated competition suits, including Jaked's. A few other recent wonderful pix from the SCAQ blog follow.

Aqus • Korea

Wow. I've been looking for those small-profile, cool patterned Asian briefs, jams and leggings I've seen in pictures and at meets, and this weekend I stumbled on an old link I'd archived last year for Aqus, the Korean swimming online superstore, where -- in addition to Arena Japan and Speedo Japan, which I knew of -- I discovered swim gear manufacturers I'd never heard about: Mizuno, Rally, Nequin, Fiload, Tornado and others. Links to all of these are in the swim gear links at left. Here are some sample displays from Aqus. More on this later.