What was your first mermaid/merman swim like

[seaair16]

My first time was on a beach it was freezing wearing a poorly made eBay tail What was your first mermaid swim like.


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[Mermaid Holly]

Mine was in my mom's friend's freezing cold pool. I think I was like eight in my pink fin fun.

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[Merman Storm]

In my pool with a tail that was too short, and kept pulling off my rear end. But I had no trouble swimming.

[Mermaid Salty]

I cried happy tears.

[cletusk20]

I finally got my first tail Wednesday so I can't wait to try it

[MermaidCealia]

I’m taking my first swim tomorrow so I will definitely report back here


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[Triton-Mahtlinnie]

IN a black spandex tail I had sewn myself, with a pair of bi-fins in the fluke because I couldn't afford a monofin. It was on a camping trip on Mt. Hood with some friends, and we were camping on the shore of the lake. The breeze was cold, but the water was warm so it was very hard to get out of the lake at the end of the day xD I had a blast, but my lovely fluke shake stuck to the bi-fins and had no rigidity, so I immediately went home and looked for a way to stiffen it up.

[Mermaid Kane]

In a pool at a meet. Extremely pleasant!

[LeeAnne]

Mine was at a very very shallow beach where I hardly had enough water to swim properly but, it was completely amazing and I loved every second of it!

[MermaidCealia]

I just got home from my first swim and I must say it was so magical!!! I swam effortlessly through the water and felt in my natural habitat! It was in my FinFun tail and I could not be any happier


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[Mermaid Persephone]

It was in a friend's above ground pool. I slipped on my little Ariel Magictail and took to the water. It was amazing.

[Mermaid Rubbles]

In a homemade tail that was poorly sewn by me along with a monofin held together with duct tape at a ymca before they banned tails, it started raining an hour or so later

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[Mermaidmirandaa]

I was otw home to Chicago from Colorado and stopped at a hotel in Kansas city for the night, and they had a BROMINE pool!! Very clean and doesn't hurt your eyes like chlorine, but I learned how to open my eyes underwater! I had my Mertailor Whale Shark skin and it was absolutely amazing!


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~Mermaid Miranda

[Ransom]

At my engagement photoshoot, which we did underwater. I'd practised with my monofin and my then fiancée needed some coaching, but we nailed it.

[TheChimera]

Mine was years ago in a spandex tail that I sew from tights and extra spandex material, I painted it purple with metallic fabric paint and beads for sparkle. It had no monofin but I made fins and a foot pocket out of tooling leather. It had barely any propulsion and I almost drowned but I was the happiest guppy ever.


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[Mermaid Jaffa]

Embarrassing. Everyone was staring, even the lifeguards!

But don't worry, after awhile everyone gets used to it, even the regular lap swimmers.

[Agent Dragon]

I felt really awkward walking into the local YMCA with my tail, but once I was in the water, all of my inhibitions vanished.


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[Mermaid Chloe-Marie]

I took it to the local pool! They wouldn't let me in with it at first, haha. But after some talking (our community is very small, few people stop by - plus, they knew me) they agreed to just keep a careful eye out. That first swim...wow. It was probably one the best feelings I've ever experienced, I simply cannot put words to it.

[Aquos Savar]

It was at 7 PM, on a beach, around a dock, in secret. Nobody knew i had a tail, so i swam at a time when the water was opaque enough so no one could see the BIG BLUE FISHTAIL WHERE MY BUTT WAS SUPPOUSED TO BE xD

It was cool, but it only lasted 15 minutes cause it got dark pretty quickly. None the less, awesome

[Mermaid Delphinidae]

I brought my poorly designed mermaid tail to the neighborhood pool to test it out. I didn't leave it open at the bottom so there was too much drag, I was basically swimming in place, ha ha.

My first proper swim was earlier this month. Got my FinFun in the mail and took it to the gym pool to try it out. So much better!

[Mary Marine]

My first tail was for my Princess Aquata cosplay, which I picked up from the tailor literally minutes before I went to A-Kon, so my first swim was in the Hilton pool. With that many people the water was...gross. Never again.

[XxMSengxX]

Mine was at the lake, well with the monofin. It was a busy, hot summer day and my family was there. They had all judged me for getting the Mahina but I was so excited. I got it in the mail & everyone was excited to open it up. Afterwards they were all telling me how I could get "skins" for it. xD like I know. Haha. My younger brothers were fighting to have a turn with the Mahina monofin. It was pretty great. Boosted my confidence actually

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[Oceana Mermaid of Wyoming]

I got my first fabric tail last summer and tried it out in my neighbors pool. At first it was a little weird, but after like 10 minutes I never wanted to take it off. I have now gotten to swim all over the place, and I honestly look like a drowning walrus when I don't have my tail on. lol.

[KTMaggs]

My first tail was a FinFun Celtic green, I was 9, I think. My first swim was in the lake and the movement and everything came naturally to me. It was very fun. Eventually when I get a silicone I imagine it is harder to get on and off.

[Snowfaerie]

My first swim was a little over a month ago at the local swimming hall with my Finfolk Productions Glaucus Atlanticus fabric fail, and it was awesome. ^^ It took a moment to get used to the extra drag from the fluke, since my prior experiences were from monofin only, but once I got the hang of it, it was great. The water was warm and nobody really paid much attention to it. I even got some short underwater video clips. Only complaint was that the pool was just 2,5 m deep, so space was a bit of an issue, but even that wasn't impossible.

My 2nd swim was even better, since I was invited to swim in this 8 m deep pool by a scuba-diving friend who had booked it for her training. :D So much space!

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[MerFaire]

I put on my wife's mono-fin without the tail once and rammed my head into the wall. First and only swim.

[BlueCorvidae]

Freaking cold. It was January, I had just got my finfolk fabric and really didn't feel like waiting for warmer weather. So I took it to the neighborhood pool, was the only one there, and took it for a swim. I had a neoprene jacket on, it didn't help. I think I went back and forth across the pool twice before going home.

[Kaila Mermaid]

My first tail was a purple mermagica tail that the guy I was dating at the time found out I had and asked why I hadn’t swam in it yet. I informed him I was afraid of being ridiculed as I was just starting out. We went to his neighborhood pool and I splashed about and i fell in love instantly.


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[mermaidsophie]

My sister asked if I wanted to come help with an underwater photoshoot (not swimming, just helping with details and hanging out), and when I got there she was like "HEY WANNA GET IN A TAIL AND SWIM FOR PHOTOS??" and so I did. And it wasn't the worst, but I definitely did not look all that graceful in photos haha. Full silicone, had never swam in fabric either. Was a party.

[00phantom]

In my grandparents apartment pool. In a borrowed, very old fin fun tail. I was so excited and had been watching mer YouTube videos for weeks beforehand. It was just as magical and amazing and satisfying as I’d hoped. And now I’m hooked.


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[Calisai]

I don’t have a tail in real life yet, so I’ve never experienced what it’s like to swim in one. However, I’ve been swimming as a mermaid for years in my dreams. In my dreams, at least, the swim is so smooth-flowing, gliding in the water like I’m an aquatic angel. Once in the water, I let go and just BE. The water is a bit cooler than the air, and it’s both calming and energizing. If a dream places me in a pool, I’ve always liked swimming at the deepest parts where my stomach is almost scraping against the pool floor. I’m a fast swimmer in my dreams. I can’t wait to have a tail in real life so that I can emulate those dreams.

[Trade Winds]

I don't remember. I first tried my fin fun monofin at an indoor pool in 2014. Not sure when I used the skin w/ it? Pretty anticlimactic in the pool. The lifeguards were curious and everything went well. Later on mermaids were banned from that pool.

[CKDraws]

I remember mine like it was yesterday... because it was! My FinFun tail came the day before. I slipped it on and hopped in the pool. It was cold, but I didn't care because swimming in a mermaid tail for the first time was amazing. I thought there would be a learning curve, but swimming with the monofin just came naturally. I didn't last very long though, since the pool was so cold. I got to swim a lot more today.