They want “dolphin skin” in the water so they shave each other’s backs. I’m all for roommate bonding, and I think this is a cute example of buddyship. But still. TMI. :lol:
Swimmers have been doing this for years. It’s not as if you can shave your own back, right?
Oh heck I roomed with a swimmer in college and helped her out. It’s just part of the culture and part of literally and figuratively shaving off every millisecond.
Watching the guys attempt to shave anything other than their face was highly amusing to me. Some were better at it than others.
If that made a difference, I do wonder at all that heavy hair flopping around in the women’s events at the track…split seconds count.
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If that made a difference, I do wonder at all that heavy hair flopping around in the women’s events at the track…split seconds count.[/QUOTE]
I was amazed at all the hair and jewellery on the sprinters! Far cry from what Sydney Olympics when all the runners wore body suits complete with hoods.
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Shaving backs is TMI?
the body shaving and waxing is old stuff. Bike racers do it too
I too noticed the hair on many of the women and wondered about its effect on time.
and sweat, ewww that is a lot of maintananace
And ballroom dancers (and I believe they wax.)
LOL yes this is old stuff. But I thought the OP said “They want “dolphin skin” in the water so they CAN shave each other’s backs.”
I was trying to figure out what “dolphin skin” was, and how it would help them shave each other’s backs in the pool. 
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LOL yes this is old stuff. But I thought the OP said “They want “dolphin skin” in the water so they CAN shave each other’s backs.”
I was trying to figure out what “dolphin skin” was, and how it would help them shave each other’s backs in the pool. [/QUOTE]
That is how I read it the first time too. :lol:
Pool party! :lol: Fill it up with Barbasol and have at each other?
Nope. Not my fault you two read my post wrong. 
“Dolphin skin” is their term, not mine. Smooth hairless skin. Like a dolphin (I guess, I’ve never felt a dolphin’s skin).
The film was funny and cute and I thought, This is a whole new take on male bonding. Then I saw one gymnast’s back, and thought, hey, he needs a bud on the swim team!
I saw an ad on FB (a friend shared it) last night for a new back shaver to help men with their manscaping. :lol: I’m all for it! It’s about time they do more work on their body hair–since women work on theirs.
I don’t think men should “work on” their body hair. Maybe if they have way too much, but otherwise no. The whole current fad of “manscaping” is just silly. I have seen pix of the male swimmers shaved for competition as well as au naturel and they look a lot more male with body hair.
Male swimmers (and triathletes) are after performance, not a “look”. The feel of a totally shaved down body is quite different in the water, and waxing does not produce them same incredibly aerodynamic feeling. My husband did Ironman triathlons for 20 years, and I can tell you that the skin infections following crashes are minimized by shaving down. It’s not at all about “manscaping”, it’s about feeling your fastest and being efficient.
Dolphins are mammals, of course, and all mammals have hair, at least at some point in their development. Dolphins only have a few vestigial hairs on the upper rostrum (snout), which fall out shortly after birth. The follicles or “dots” remain.
What makes dolphin skin interesting is that they constantly slough off the outer layer of skin, which helps to reduce drag through the water. It is a form of laminar flow. The epidermis is fairly thick, but it is constantly shedding and renewing.
Dolphin skin is quite fragile, you can rub it and feel a grainy-like texture which is the shed skin, and it is very easy to scratch and leave a mark, even with just a finger nail. They also get scrapes, and rake marks (from the teeth of another dolphin scraping the skin, part of social interactions) quite easily, but they also heal the skin pretty quickly. Which all makes sense when you think of their environment.
Some scrapes or rake marks, if deep enough, can result in scars that make the animal identifiable. (Usually, the dorsal fin is the unique identifier for individual animals, and easily seen when the animal surfaces.)
Probably more than anyone wanted to know about dolphin skin. Oh, and most people say it feels like a wet, firm inner tube, or slick neoprene. Firm but sleek and smooooth.
My user name gives a clue about my career before I retired.
I disagree. We need more manscaping! They want us to look like little girls, they need to look like little boys to match. 
It’s a poor double standard right now, and men should not look like apes. Of course that’s JMO. Others might like gorillas.
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I disagree. We need more manscaping! They want us to look like little girls, they need to look like little boys to match. It’s a poor double standard right now, and men should not look like apes. Of course that’s JMO. Others might like gorillas.[/QUOTE]
None of my male friends want me or any other women I know to look like little girls. That would be creepy. Just like I don’t want “my men” to look like little boys. I used to enjoy watching the summer Olympics because the guys were cute and sometimes sexy. Now they’re too young to be sexy-cute.
My post about “manscaping” wasn’t about swimmers but about men in general. 
If swimmers want to shave all over that’s fine with me. :yes: They’re all too young to be sexy anyway. :lol:
