Changing suits when lap swimming

[BothWays145]

Hi guys, long time reader first time poster.

I've been swimming off and on at a local college for a year or so now and I plan to start going more often. I'm looking to start a little speedo collection. I'm wondering if how often other lap swimmers here use a different speedo? Do you change daily, weekly or monthly? Or is it more when you just feel like a new suit? Do you get any reactions from lifeguards or other swimmers?

The pool is setup such that you walk to the desk to give your membership card in your suit. This is after showering in the locker room. Last week I wore my black euro sporti and when I got to the desk the girl sitting there just about knocked over her drink when she saw me. Not sure if it had anything to do with my suit or not but I'd like to think so. When I was done and got out of the pool she made sure to sit up in her chair while I walked to the desk to get my membership card back. Quite the rush to walk out in such a small suit for all to see.

I'm thinking daily would be to often but also could be kind of funny, maybe lifeguards would look forward to what the "suit of the day" is :D

So far I only have a very faded blue 1" Speedo Solar and the black Euro Sporti. Can't wait to get more! What should I get next? I wonder if I'd ever be daring enough to wear an unlined suit.

[Torchwatch]

Choose the suit the fits your mood on the day.

As your collection builds you will learn which suits look good on you, which feel good and which slide through the water fastest.

One day you may want to notice those quick sideways glances of appreciation as you go down to the pool. Another day you will be wearing your oldest roughest speedos just to show that you are there for a serious session and don't care what you look like.

It's your choice, even if you just grab the same suit as last time simply because it is still on the airer with your towel.

When you get to go to the beach next summer you will have to take a couple of speedos, a bikini and a swim thong just to be certain that you have the right thing to wear on the right beach.

I took a friend to a sandy beach some years ago and each time I went into the water i came out and put on something dry and briefer than I was wearing before, it was fun.

[Byron]

....Go for "suit of the day" when your collection allows - give the pool staff some enjoyment and start with a low cut water polo Turbo to keep them guessing on what other activities you might be taking part in.......

[Swimmboy]

If you want to actually swim for health/exercise, I wouldn't recommend wearing an unlined suit, or any suit that is 'over the top' in terms of skimpiness or sexiness. I'm afraid you may end up looking silly. Please keep the 'special' suits for more private encounters, not a public pool.

[SwimTeamSpeedo]

agree with the post above on unlined and extra tiny. As to change-ups, I alternate suits everyday.

[BothWays145]

@Swimmboy and @SwimTeamSpeedo - do you guys consider the Sporti Euro suit "special" or "extra tiny"? Are 1" side suits to small you think?

[sebbie]

I think these are cool looking suits with the diagonal rep stripe. I have the one with the gold.
Skimpy but not embarassingly so
http://www.swimoutlet.com/product_p/15010.htm?color=9599

[PSDave]

If you want to actually swim for health/exercise, I wouldn't recommend wearing an unlined suit, or any suit that is 'over the top' in terms of skimpiness or sexiness. I'm afraid you may end up looking silly. Please keep the 'special' suits for more private encounters, not a public pool.

This is definitely true. Too skimpy or revealing looks more like a guy trying to score and not a serious swimmer. The pool or beach are the places to go trolling for guys - not in a lap pool.
Any Speedo suit is considered a good lap suit -- unless you cut out the lining of a light color to achieve sheer or it is 5 sizes too small. A good rule of thumb when picking a lap suit is -- if it is made by N2N -leave it home. Speedo, Arena, Nike, TYR. They are designed and made for serious swimmers.

[Swimmboy]

I think a 1" side on a suit would be inappropriate - it more a 'bikini' than a serious swimsuit. The brief water polo suits many if us admire on guys are usually 2", most Speedo/TYR swimsuits are 3". Either style would be fine for lap swimming, in my humble opinion.

[MicroRon]

I have quite a few Speedo Endurance suits and a few other brands. These suits are intended for serious lap swimming. All have liners... any linerless suits that I have are reserved for beaches that I go to. ~ ~ ~ I rotate thru suits that I like - both for their fit and style. I've found that a couple of the splice suits look silly on me... I'm nearly 70 years old... so they just get by passed.. I favour blues and blacks. A few of the suits have patterns on the front... a couple have 'Speedo' written across the butt. I wear them when I'm feeling a little 'sassy` ~ ~ ~ old guys can do that too you know! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ I've always worn a speedo... for a period of time in the 60's speeodos were made from nylon tricot... it was quite normal for a guy to pluck the suit from his genitals when he got out of the pool.. well most guys 'plucked', unless they were a bit exhibitionistic. ~ ~ ~ Those of you who know the Endurance suit will recognize that it is a fairly low-rise fit. ~ ~ ~ No body makes any particular mnetion of my suit ~ ~ ~ old guys get a pass if they are seen to be lap swimming. Well actually... most of us are hardly worth noticing, so we don't attract the same kind of criticism that some of you younger 'nervous types' might attract.
~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Cheers form the Big Island, Vancouver Island, BC.

[SwimTeamSpeedo]

The euro cut sporti is fine, a little tighter and smaller than most, but it is well in bounds. I actually have a few Sporti suits, euro cut. I like the fit and look. I would not go 1 inch though at a lap swim. Same reasons as others have said.

[California Dolphin]

If you want to actually swim for health/exercise, I wouldn't recommend wearing an unlined suit, or any suit that is 'over the top' in terms of skimpiness or sexiness. I'm afraid you may end up looking silly. Please keep the 'special' suits for more private encounters, not a public pool.

I agree that anything that looks "XXX" should NOT be worn at a public pool or gym/health club. It could get you kicked out of the place for indecent exposure as well.

Remember the anti-speedo campaign was started by the "Coalition for Family Values" and that kind of behavior could be a set back to the pro-speedo movement -which is finally gathering some momentum.

The better option is to wear something with 7 or 8 inch sides or possibly a square cut -which ever best fits your body. :D

CD

[sebbie]

Here you go!

[BothWays145]

Guys thanks for your input. I'm for sure not going to try the unlined suit, glad I asked, though I'm not sure I would of had the guts to do it any way.

I'm a bit surprised some think a 1" isn't appropriate, the Speedo Solar was sold at JC Penny's and is still sold at Macy's. I've used that suit most of the time, for sure one of the small suits I've seen but didn't think it was inappropriate.

I use to use a square cut before I had a somewhat better body and the range of motion with a brief/bikini was noticeably better.

Keep your thoughts coming! Thanks.

[Byron]

It may sound like an odd thing to say but the skimpier suit could give you more water-drag than the standard 2 or 3 inch suits mentioned.
Their slightly larger area of fabric can provide tension over all the suit to maintain a really snug fit in all parts. The 1 inch ,usually with the higher leg cut, will sometimes not cope as well below the waistband against water pressure.

[Swimmboy]

There has never been an "anti" Speedo movement, by any "Coalition for Family Values" or anyone else. I am tired of hearing these silly accusations against certain religious or other groups. Speedos have never been that popular as general swim or beach wear - other than for swim teams, etc. I've seen people on these boards talk about the 1970s when everyone wore Speedos. Really? Watch the 1970s movie "Jaws" - not one Speedo is seen on anyone in those numerous beach scenes, and only one 'square-cut' type suit that I saw. There has never been an organized movement against Speedos - if 'right-wing Christian extremists' were so opposed to skin showing, why are their virginal daughters still wearing skimpy bikinis? If you want to blame anyone for making Speedos less popular, start with the flamboyant exhibitionists in Gay Pride parades - gee, come to think of it, as those parades blossomed in the 80s and 90s, Speedos started disappearing......hmmm......

[California Dolphin]

There has never been an "anti" Speedo movement, by any "Coalition for Family Values" or anyone else. I am tired of hearing these silly accusations against certain religious or other groups. Speedos have never been that popular as general swim or beach wear - other than for swim teams, etc. I've seen people on these boards talk about the 1970s when everyone wore Speedos. Really? Watch the 1970s movie "Jaws" - not one Speedo is seen on anyone in those numerous beach scenes, and only one 'square-cut' type suit that I saw. There has never been an organized movement against Speedos - if 'right-wing Christian extremists' were so opposed to skin showing, why are their virginal daughters still wearing skimpy bikinis? If you want to blame anyone for making Speedos less popular, start with the flamboyant exhibitionists in Gay Pride parades - gee, come to think of it, as those parades blossomed in the 80s and 90s, Speedos started disappearing......hmmm......
You're wrong as Hell.

I was on my high school swim team in the 60s and 70s and every athletic swimmer wore briefs -AKA- what is commonly called a "speedo". Same with short shorts for boy's P.E. and summer wear.

I have thoroughly researched this issue and the anti-speedo movement is a spin off of the anti-gay, right wing christian and "family values" campaign who stereotyped speedos as gay fetish wear. The movement really picked up steam in the Bible Belt region of the country.

[sebbie]

I was on the Beach at Waikiki in the mid 80s. At that point in time, probably 2/3 of the guys were wearing brief-style suits, and the little stores near the beach had a huge collection in case you didn't bring something along. Even more interesting is that maybe 10 percent of the guys (women too) were wearing thongs. I thought this was just amazing. No one appeared to be the least bit self conscious about it all. What is considered acceptable beach wear kinda goes with the flow, and if a lot of guys decide a Speedo style suit or even a thong is fine, it will be fine.

I haven't been back there since, but Hawaiia beaches attract a very international crowd, esp Japanese. I can't believe the Asian guys these have somehow given up on their skinpy suits.

Then around 1990 I attended a convention and stayed at a Hotel in San Diego. There, you often were wearing too much clothing if you wore a brief suit. I wore thongs most of the time, and thats what many of the guys around the pool and esp the hot tub were wearing. I have thongs and a skimpy brief style suit of the same color. I would slip the brief over the thong and head off to the pool or tub. Then I would check out what the other guys around me were wearing, and slip off the brief to reveal the thong or not, depending on what was going on at the moment.

My visits to department stores at various locations and times in Florida suggests that the big department stores (Macys, J.C. Penney, etc) routinely carry skimpier swimsuits for men than we currently see locally. I gues its all a matter of what sells to the local crowd.

I too feel that all this talk about Speedos being banned in certain places and by certain groups is overrated. If a person has so many hangups that somehow a brief-style suit on a man is offensive thats a problem of the person with the hangups not a problem for the swimsuit wearer!

[SwimTeamSpeedo]

You're wrong as Hell.



Whoa guys... okay to disagree, but lets not get back to the hostile world of the old board.... :)

[California Dolphin]

Quote from Sebbie
Then around 1990 I attended a convention and stayed at a Hotel in San Diego. There, you often were wearing too much clothing if you wore a brief suit. I wore thongs most of the time, and thats what many of the guys around the pool and esp the hot tub were wearing. I have thongs and a skimpy brief style suit of the same color. I would slip the brief over the thong and head off to the pool or tub. Then I would check out what the other guys around me were wearing, and slip off the brief to reveal the thong or not, depending on what was going on at the moment.

On the subject of attire for pools or hot tubs, in Japanese communal baths, men wear nothing. The Japanese have got the concept 100% right and unless it's a coed get together, the best thing for the pool or the bath is pure nudity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qnsA-1oS_A :D

CD

[Torchwatch]

Hey CD
I used your link, followed from video to video until I found the original 2001 version of Waterboys. (English subtitles)

Great speedo movie that I haven't been able to find before although I have seen the sequels and the tv series.
Many thanks

From the final part of the Waterboys there are links to real Japanese School Waterboys shows. Amateur but fun.

The Japanese show us that you can have fun in speedos.

[Swimmboy]

California Dolphin stated:
I was on my high school swim team in the 60s and 70s and every athletic swimmer wore briefs -AKA- what is commonly called a "speedo". Same with short shorts for boy's P.E. and summer wear.

In my post, I claimed Speedos were not that common - OTHER THAN FOR SWIM TEAMS. Duh..... Thanks for making my point.

Sebbie mentions the popularity of briefer suits at certain beaches such as Waikiki - but Waikiki is hardly a 'typical' US beach, with it's wealthier and often Asian clientele. More typical beaches might be Myrtle Beach (in the 'Bible Belt' south - where I've worn a Speedo with no harassment), the beach near Corpus Christi, Texas (again where I've had no harassment), Bethany Beach, Delaware (many times - no harassment), Wildwood, NJ (no harassment, though the beach was fairly empty that day), Presque Isle beach at Lake Erie (no harassment, but did get a couple of glances), Long Beach, CA (no harassment), and pools nationwide.

And again I state there is no "anti-Speedo movement" anywhere except in the minds of some people on this board who have a fetish about the suits, and think it should be natural to wear one while shopping at the mall, dining at a restaurant, etc. Most people - even the 'right-wing Christian extremists' some see hiding under every bed - pay no notice to the issue of Speedos simply because they are a non-issue to begin with!

[SwimTeamSpeedo]

I do agree with Swimmboy that wearing a Speedo type suit is really not the big deal lots of guys try to make it. I have also worn brief cut suits at many of the beaches that Swimmboy mentions and others and it has never been an issue. I also run at the beach in my suits and have never had a problem. It is the only type suit I wear when the situation calls for a swimsujit. I think some guys are so fraught with fear to wear a brief cut suit that they take any glance as an adverse reaction.

[MuscleSpeedo]

I was on the Beach at Waikiki in the mid 80s. At that point in time, probably 2/3 of the guys were wearing brief-style suits, and the little stores near the beach had a huge collection in case you didn't bring something along. Even more interesting is that maybe 10 percent of the guys (women too) were wearing thongs. I thought this was just amazing. No one appeared to be the least bit self conscious about it all. What is considered acceptable beach wear kinda goes with the flow, and if a lot of guys decide a Speedo style suit or even a thong is fine, it will be fine.

I haven't been back there since, but Hawaiia beaches attract a very international crowd, esp Japanese. I can't believe the Asian guys these have somehow given up on their skinpy suits.

Then around 1990 I attended a convention and stayed at a Hotel in San Diego. There, you often were wearing too much clothing if you wore a brief suit. I wore thongs most of the time, and thats what many of the guys around the pool and esp the hot tub were wearing. I have thongs and a skimpy brief style suit of the same color. I would slip the brief over the thong and head off to the pool or tub. Then I would check out what the other guys around me were wearing, and slip off the brief to reveal the thong or not, depending on what was going on at the moment.

My visits to department stores at various locations and times in Florida suggests that the big department stores (Macys, J.C. Penney, etc) routinely carry skimpier swimsuits for men than we currently see locally. I gues its all a matter of what sells to the local crowd.

I too feel that all this talk about Speedos being banned in certain places and by certain groups is overrated. If a person has so many hangups that somehow a brief-style suit on a man is offensive thats a problem of the person with the hangups not a problem for the swimsuit wearer!


This is a little off topic from the OP, but similar to the above post. In 1987 I was in USAF tech school in Biloxi MS. After classes were over each day, many of us would hang out at the pool in the student area of the base. Most of the guys wore speedos, which was great! Every afternoon was spent hanging out at the pool watching hot young Air Force guys in speedos!

One day I noticed a cute guy who was wearing a pair of shorts, laying out by the pool. Every time he would go in the pool, he would take off the shorts, revealing speedos, and quickly jump in the water. When he got out, he would quickly pull on his shorts and lie down again. From a better vantage point, I watched this routine again, and discovered that this guy was hung like a horse......with a massive bulge in that speedo.....and I could tell he wasn't even hard!

Apparently this guy was so embarrased by his own size, he covered it up when in full view. But at least he still enjoyed wearing speedos, LOL.