Description

The Hammerhead Silver Armour Jammer is a new entry on the market for technical suits. Although the company was originally started in 1998, Hammerhead jammers are just now starting to make their way on the the US markets.
Hammerhead is a Brazilian company started by Eduardo and Fernando Scherer. Fernando. Fernando won a bronze medal for 50 freestyle at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and a bronze at the 2000 olympics in Sydney for the 4 x 100 freestyle relay.

Hammerhead currently offer just two racing suits — the Silver Armour and Powerglide. The Silver Armour is Hammerhead’s top-of-the line swim jammer. It’s the first swimsuit that incorporates a cage made of 99.9% pure silver threads, woven with Lycra. This approach follows Arena’s strategy of incorporating carbon threads into the fabric, for their Carbon Pro line of jammers. In fact, the fabric used in the Silver Armour and Cabon Pro suits were both developed by Kinetech Labs, based in Italy.

The silver threads give the suit extra rigidity, which help compress the swimmer’s muscles. Muscle compression help cut down on drag, making the swimmer more hydro-dynamic. Compression also helps aid muscle recovery. Most technical suits attempt to add muscle compression features, ether through the cut or fabric.

Hammerhead also claim that the silver threads help prolong the suit’s life. Technical suits like these have a limited use and are susceptible to fabric sagging and tearing. The addition of silver threads help postpone some of these concerns.
Only 3% of the suit’s fabric is made up of silver thread. The rest is Lycra. This give the suits the flexibility it needs to respond to the swimmer’s movement.

The suit has been approved by FINA for use in competition. It currently only comes in black.

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