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Swim teacher wearing a bikini

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    #32
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    dar100 wrote: »
    Dam, you must be a bad swimmer:D

    With all them swimming lessons, I am a very strong swimmer now. ;) I liked swimming but couldn't commit to the swimming club. I took lessons on and off between the ages of 4 and 11. I am ****e at most other sports but thankfully I can swim well. :P


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    #33
    dar100
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    maguic24 wrote: »
    With all them swimming lessons, I am a very strong swimmer now. ;) I liked swimming but couldn't commit to the swimming club. I took lessons on and off between the ages of 4 and 11. I am ****e at most other sports but thankfully I can swim well. :P

    Ah no... Don't give up the only sport you are good at:D, I hear sportsman only get better as they enter their teens and twenties :eek:


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    #34
    JupiterKid
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    I've heard it said that serious male swimmers wear speedos or short trunks in the water and that serious female swimmers wear one piece swimsuits.

    A bikini thus seems a tad unusual for a swimming instructor to wear - not because of how much it reveals (I myself have no qualms about swimming au naturel) but for the reason above.

    In the National Aquatic Centre aquadome yesterday most of the lads wore those huge "board shorts" and most of the girls rather skimpy bikinis. In the main 50m pool, however, it was different...speedos, short trunks and one piece swimsuits were in abundance...:pac:


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    #35
    martingriff
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    hardCopy wrote: »
    None of my current or former swim teachers or coaches have ever gotten into the water with me during a lesson.

    Runners and a tracksuit would be normal attire.

    I don't see why people are so eager to take the piss out of the OP.

    I would say because one on one lessons. People are taking the piss as the OP has not come back and said what is appropriate to wear when in a pool teaching someone to swim.


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    #36
    theholyghost
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    Back from my lesson. After reading this thread I was expecting some sort of confessions of a swim instructress sex romp. Disappointed.


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    #37
    snowey07
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    Actually Im quite surprised shes wearing a bikini . My male instructor wears shorts and a tshirt during group lessons as theyre out of the pool and a wet suit during private lessons. All the female instructors wear tshirt/shorts usually and a one piece when in the pool during 1 to 1 classes.


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    #38
    dodzy
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    caira wrote: »
    My 15 year old son is having one to one swimming lessons at a local pool every sunday, When I went to pick him up early yesterday I was surprised to see that his teacher was wearing a bikini. Do you think this is appropriate for a swimming teacher ?
    Pics.....or GTFO ;)


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    #39
    Eggonyerface
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    Looks like the op is banned, must have been a wind up merchant


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    #40
    Eggonyerface
    Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭Eggonyerface


    Looks like the op is banned, must have been a wind up merchant


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    #41
    nocoverart
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    Eggonyerface wrote: »
    Looks like the op is banned, must have been a wind up merchant

    Or maybe had egg on her face, twice.


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    #42
    pc11
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    caira wrote: »
    My 15 year old son is having one to one swimming lessons at a local pool every sunday, When I went to pick him up early yesterday I was surprised to see that his teacher was wearing a bikini. Do you think this is appropriate for a swimming teacher ?

    Have I banged my head and woken up in 1913?


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    #43
    hardCopy
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    martingriff wrote: »
    I would say because one on one lessons. People are taking the piss as the OP has not come back and said what is appropriate to wear when in a pool teaching someone to swim.

    I've never had one to one lessons so didn't realise it was the norm for teachers to get in the water.


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    #44
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    hardCopy wrote: »
    I've never had one to one lessons so didn't realise it was the norm for teachers to get in the water.

    All my lessons were group lessons and all my instructors got in the water. There should be a poll...did your instructor get in the water or not?:P


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    #45
    Stone Deaf 4evr
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    maguic24 wrote: »
    All my lessons were group lessons and all my instructors got in the water. There should be a poll...did your instructor get in the water or not?:P

    I cant imagine the instructor not getting in the water tbh. imagine the driving instructor sitting on a park bench and giving you instructions by yelling in your open window.


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    #46
    fibix
    Registered Users Posts: 400 ✭✭fibix


    If the issue is with her wearing a bikini hence being a distraction or inappropriate attire then
    pc11 wrote: »
    Have I banged my head and woken up in 1913?

    However...
    Used to swim competitively in college and the instructors always wore some kind of leggins / shorts / tshirt + flip flops or one piece in water (females), jammers (males).
    Every sport has the designated attire and a bikini is not a swimmer's attire. Good for the beach and paddling in the pool but not when you are a professional swimming instructor and want to be taken seriously.


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    #47
    hardCopy
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    fibix wrote: »
    If the issue is with her wearing a bikini hence being a distraction or inappropriate attire then


    However...
    Used to swim competitively in college and the instructors always wore some kind of leggins / shorts / tshirt + flip flops or one piece in water (females), jammers (males).
    Every sport has the designated attire and a bikini is not a swimmer's attire. Good for the beach and paddling in the pool but not when you are a professional swimming instructor and want to be taken seriously.

    It seems odd to me but it could be something as simple as all her one-pieces were in the wash.


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    #48
    fibix
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    hardCopy wrote: »
    It seems odd to me

    Yup, odd:) But that's the way it is. What is more, Im sure we'd be not allowed in the pool if any of us decided to wear skimpy bikini for the training.


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    #49
    yop
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    mike65 wrote: »
    One pieces can be hot as well.

    Which piece, the top or the bottom piece?


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    Freedive Ireland
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    I'd be inclined to agree a Bikini is unusual but maybe had forgotton the one piece. I see most swim teachers on the deck now and cant understand it. i'm not a swim teacher so maybe thats just the way it is. Cant do the speedos but jammers or speedo shorts are the only way to go. your swimming will improve the day you put them on.


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    #51
    theholyghost
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    Freedive Ireland wrote: »
    Cant do the speedos but jammers or speedo shorts are the only way to go. your swimming will improve the day you put them on.

    Really? What way does it make a difference and would thd layman notice?


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    #52
    fibix
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    theholyghost wrote: »
    Really? What way does it make a difference and would thd layman notice?

    You won't loose your pants when you jump into the water, you don't have to fix it, tight the waist string, stays in the place, doesn't restrict your moves, loose shorts will drag behind you when full of water.

    As for the ladies, bras can come off, snap, unhook.

    There's a lot to think about when learning how to swim, really don't understand why would you add to it with beachwear.


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    #53
    theholyghost
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    fibix wrote: »
    There's a lot to think about when learning how to swim, really don't understand why would you add to it with beachwear.

    Im in the pool everyday at the moment getting some lessons and trying to improve my technique not to race just to be better. I wear short above the knee boardshorts. Do you think it matters for me?


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    #54
    fibix
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    theholyghost, if through your entire time in the pool you don't notice them i.e. don't have to fix them, pull them up, etc. then work away:)


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    #55
    promethius
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    theholyghost wrote: »
    Im in the pool everyday at the moment getting some lessons and trying to improve my technique not to race just to be better. I wear short above the knee boardshorts. Do you think it matters for me?

    yes. you're adding unnecessary drag via all the extra loose material, this slows you down which lowers your body position in the water. all that makes improvements more difficult that they should be.

    switch to properly fitting swim togs and it will be easier to improve. has your instructor not said this to you?

    any pics of this bikini clad teacher btw?


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    #56
    theholyghost
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    promethius wrote: »
    yes. you're adding unnecessary drag via all the extra loose material, this slows you
    switch to properly fitting swim togs and it will be easier to improve. has your instructor not said this to you?

    Nope but my instructor is more of a a general gym instructor rather than a swimmers swimmer I think.


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    #57
    sbsquarepants
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    fibix wrote: »
    However...
    Used to swim competitively in college and the instructors always wore some kind of leggins / shorts / tshirt + flip flops or one piece in water (females), jammers (males).
    .

    What the hell are jammers?


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    #58
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    What the hell are jammers?

    Pool pyjamas?

    Was wondering the exact same thing!!


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    #59
    fibix
    Registered Users Posts: 400 ✭✭fibix


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    Pool pyjamas alright ;)


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    #60
    maguic24
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    fibix wrote: »
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    Pool pyjamas alright ;)

    Seeing as a lot of men wear only boxers to bed, I'm not too far off the beaten track. :p


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    #61
    Mint Sauce
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    Lets hope she doesn't teach him the back stroke.
    maguic24 wrote: »
    All of my instructors got in the water. I learned to swim as a kid in the 90's. :D Maybe it's changed since then.

    My instructor (in the late 80's) got in the water as well. As did most good instructors that I knew. Although I never remembered her wearing a bikini.


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