The effect of reducing atriction is really relevant ?
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At the Olympic level, absolutely. It’ll get you a few tenths of a second which is a big deal in short races. It can also add up on your splits to a few seconds for longer races.
I only ever swam at the high school level and we used to shave down for finals every year. We did a bunch of other things like training extra hard and then tapering off so it’s hard to isolate shaving from other factors, but I always swam my best times during finals and it just subjectively felt faster in the water.
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