IU Purdue Swimming and Diving Meet

[Byron]

vids also at: http://www.purduesports.com/sports/m...013014aaa.html

[miloandtock1]

I swim three days a week at the Purdue Aquatic Center...and occasionally the men's swim team practices. You see a whole range of body types and sizes, but its the speedos that are attention gathering. I think back in the fall there was a big fundraiser for breast cancer, and the guys had special suits made that various shades of pink, with some grey, white, black in there. They wear them for local meets and for practice, but mostly the guys wear black speedo briefs, as do the divers, although one or two have the red, white, blue USA brief. The Health and Kinesiology Dept runs a swimming class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings for majors and anyone into phys ed or training or therapy, there is always one guy, sometimes a second, rarely a third of the dozen or so guys in the class, that wears a Purdue brief speedo - but its not plain black, it is a mix of black, white, and gold, with the word Purdue on the backside and the train and big P along the side. I've never seen a swim team member in these, so I am wondering where they come from, maybe the old practice suit, but these boys in the class are not on the team, they are in a class. Either way, it does make the mornings that I swim laps very nice to see these guys in little speedos, the one guy is especially a hottie, with a great butt, decent bulge too.

[Byron]

Interesting speedo - needs investigating
(welcome as new member today from Indiana)

[miloandtock1]

Originally Posted by Byron

Interesting speedo - needs investigating
(welcome as new member today from Indiana)

Thank you!
It is always worth to go work out and swim laps, it is all the more easier knowing there is eye candy at the pool...well not everyone is eye candy...but certain guys on the swim team, and certain divers are nice. The general population who swims ranges all over and runs the entire spectrum. But the one guy in the HK swim class on weekday mornings is very much worth the effort to swim the laps.
If anyone is in the Lafayette area and would like to hang out and talk speedos etc...drop me a line.

[miloandtock1]

So it's been an interesting summer at Purdue - in terms of the aquatic center and swimming laps. Pretty fair assortment of speedos throughout the summer. The main competition pool was closed for maintenance for a couple weeks so everyone got relegated to a recreational pool with only three lanes. Last week I actually got to share a lane with a boy on the Purdue swim team, nice looking and typical swimmers body, and...nice bulge. During this time I also met a member of the water polo team - it is they who wear the black suit with white and gold trim with the train engine wrapping around from behind. This was the suit I described several months ago that the young man in the swim class wore. So it was pretty easy to figure out who he is with social media and all (straight, with gf - damn).

So the pool opened up yesterday and I decided to go do some laps as it opened up. Again a decent assortment of briefs, boxer cuts, jammers and trunks. As I was leaving - also leaving the pool at the same time - was the boy in the swim class I described. He had on his water polo brief, he showered in it too (not to sound like a creeper for noticing)...but then in the locker area - again he did the towel dance. I am always amazed by this. Here is a handsome young man, great body, is used to wearing little briefs for swimming laps (apparently swam competitively all through hs) and plays water polo for Purdue in one too. Walks freely around the pool area - as he did all through that class during the spring. But hides behind a towel to change. Hmmm. Interesting.
Anyway, glad the regular pool is open. Fall semester starts again tomorrow. I need to get into a routine as to when I go swimming during the week.

Originally Posted by miloandtock1

I swim three days a week at the Purdue Aquatic Center...and occasionally the men's swim team practices. You see a whole range of body types and sizes, but its the speedos that are attention gathering. I think back in the fall there was a big fundraiser for breast cancer, and the guys had special suits made that various shades of pink, with some grey, white, black in there. They wear them for local meets and for practice, but mostly the guys wear black speedo briefs, as do the divers, although one or two have the red, white, blue USA brief. The Health and Kinesiology Dept runs a swimming class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings for majors and anyone into phys ed or training or therapy, there is always one guy, sometimes a second, rarely a third of the dozen or so guys in the class, that wears a Purdue brief speedo - but its not plain black, it is a mix of black, white, and gold, with the word Purdue on the backside and the train and big P along the side. I've never seen a swim team member in these, so I am wondering where they come from, maybe the old practice suit, but these boys in the class are not on the team, they are in a class. Either way, it does make the mornings that I swim laps very nice to see these guys in little speedos, the one guy is especially a hottie, with a great butt, decent bulge too.

[Byron]

Good to read your post - especially as I too have encountered that modesty-with-towel routine in the changing room, performed by a very competent swimmer with really neat swimbriefs.
The psychoanalysis of it fascinates me - but I will say no more as I am bound to see an immediate riposte from somewhere, accusing me of trying to be superior* and rule the world - or other assorted nonsense.


* I will take a risk and ask did you know the loco. print represents the Ironworks?

[Swimmboy]

Yes, the infamous 'towel dance'. I swim at a pool that has hosted many top-level meets of high school and college swimmers - and the majority of them change under a towel in the locker room! Now, part of that may be because lots of male swimmers used to change on the pool deck - they'd wrap a towel around the waist, reach under it and pull down their swimsuit, pull on some boxers (usually) or briefs, then remove the towel and pull shorts or pants on. US Swimming banned deck changing maybe a year or two ago at big meets, though college teams may still allow it? So maybe the guys just got accustomed to doing the 'towel dance', but once you are inside a locker room, why not just strip down, dry off, and pull on your underwear and clothes? I am sure shyness is still a major factor. A few years ago, I was swimming at a college outdoor pool when I spied a guy from the college team swimming in a nearby lane - in his team Speedo! BUT, at the conclusion of his swim, he stopped at the end of his lane and grabbed something I hadn't noticed - some board shorts he had left on the deck! He pulled those on while still in the water, then, once properly covered, he hopped out of the pool! I was stunned - a varsity college swimmer who swims in a brief Speedo was embarrassed to be seen at his college outdoor pool in the same Speedo that has his school's name across the butt? Everyone would have seen the team logo and thought, "Oh, cool, he's on the college team here so he's wearing his team Speedo," but he was too shy to be seen in it except in the indoor competition pool???

[Dooley67]

Since I started swimming at the Y, I've noticed that guys who are in their 30's through 60's walk to and from the shower and then in the locker area naked just holding their towel. There isn't the towel dance that Swimmboy described among this age group. But younger guys are the ones who do the towel dance so maybe it's related to age and the incomplete development of self confidence among late adolescents and younger adults. Maybe the modesty of these guys is a reflection of their unsure sense of their body image, a big issue for all adolescents.

Specifically in the example given by Swimmboy, maybe that young man was out of his comfort zone. It's comfortable to be wearing his brief suit along with his teammates at the indoor pool during practices and meets, but at the outdoor pool by himself, he was no longer in his comfort zone. Just a hypothesis.

[California Dolphin]

I've Googled the phrase "College Swim Teams 2014" and there are a lot of recent photos of guys in speedos.

For example:
http://thekenyonthrill.com/2014/03/2...made-buzzfeed/