Any current competitive swimmers? (or past competitive swimmers)?

[mrrigid]

When I was a teenager (awhile ago), I was a decent competitive swimmer - could swim a sub-one minute 100 yard free and about a 1:03 butterfly (decent, but not great, for highschool). Plus I swam in a competitive summer league. Consequently, I grew up with literal Speedos - and was very familiar with girls in racing tanks - at least with looking at them!
So, quite a few years later, I kinda still feel I've earned the swim bikini. At the town pool, I'll be sure to swim some laps to demonstrate my competence. Anyone also?

[swimmer78]

I am. I didn't swim competitively in my youth though. I got into it as an adult in my 30s about 7 or 8 years ago and do Masters swimming now. Freestyle is my strongest stroke but the sub-minute 100yd free has been elusive so far. I've come close to it in meets, like 1:05/100yds. I also enjoy open water swimming and have done up to 2.4 miles. I made the leap from jammer to swim briefs when I started getting serious about my swimming. My first brief was a Speedo Endurance +. It was all black with about 4 inch sides. Since that first speedo I've never gone back to a jammer.

[Thongwearer]

I’m also a swimmer - I do competitive meets in the summer time.

[SnakeEyes20]

I wish I had tried for. The swim team in hs, didn't think I was good enough, but did find that I liked swimming for pe class much better than the general team sport pe they used to give(was never really good at any ball sports). On a whole I wish I'd have done more sports/activities during school instead of just skipping class

[Thongwearer]

I worked out in the pool this morning. I’m so amazed how many people do laps in dork shorts.

[swimmer78]

I worked out in the pool this morning. I’m so amazed how many people do laps in dork shorts.

That always amazes me too! I see this at every pool I've swam at. It kills me to see these guys struggling up and down the lane with a parachute dragging them down. Maybe they like the extra resistance it gives them, but I think they are really just afraid of brief swimwear and what their friends, wife, GF, etc., might think if they wore them. And that even in a setting where briefs are perfectly acceptable!

I got to know a guy earlier this year swimming at my YMCA pool who was training for a triathlon. Yes he was swimming in baggy shorts. I coached him a little on his freestyle technique which helped him quite a bit, but one of the first things I said to him was to get some real swimwear. I had an old Speedo jammer which was still in good condition. Since we were the same size I gave him the jammer and he was amazed how much better he could move in the water. I encouraged him to get a swim brief, but he never did as far as I know.