The local pool in Breckenridge isn’t like anything in Australia.

For starters, it is negative a lot of degrees outside, so the pool is indoors.  Then, the pool isn’t a real length…. it isn’t the 50m pool I’m used to, it isn’t even 25m, it is 22.something meters.

I’m told it is 72 lengths to 1 mile.

That is stupid.

Why not make it 75?  Would be easier to count.

And the pool is at 8,750 feet above sea level.  that is 698m above Australia’s highest mountain.  or 31 and a half lengths, of their pool.

That isn’t where the oddities end……

At my pool in Australia, I don’t usually use the change rooms.  I just wear our speedos under my shorts or jeans.  So I drop them and go swimming.  Being in Colorado you have to use a change room… it is bloody cold outside.

In Aussie, when I go to the pool, most folks are swimming for training or exercise.  In Colorado, the pool is more of a cheap fun park for families and kids.

I get it, and there are lessons and high school squad training and then adult masters training going on.  A quiet day at the Breckenridge pool, is like every day at an Australian pool…. combined.  I’m not a fan of the crowds, but I love that people are using a beautiful indoor facility.  Kids learning to swim, people trying to loose weight and athletes training for events.  It is fantastic.

In Aussie, for most of those things I just listed, we go to the beach.  It is cheaper…. maybe we are just tight arses?

While I’m on a roll, I’d like to point out more differences.

My experience of Aussie change rooms (which I don’t usual use), are an in and out thing (except when something naughty happens – click here to find out about my naughty change room experiences).

In America, it seems like a slower process.  Strip down, walk around, take a leak, weigh yourself, arrange your clothing in alphabetical order.  All while being naked.

What?

Yes, never seen more bare bums in my life (I run porn sites) than in an American change room at the local pool.

Nothing sexual, just weird.  And not something I grew up with.

I get changed, maybe under the towel and get it done.  These American fellas were walking around strutting and chatting.

So, in Breckenridge, after seeing more than a barbie load of American sausage, I was down to my speedos and went to the pool, with my swimming goggles.

One would have though I had committed a crime.

Walking out of the change rooms, the weird pool version of elevator music stopped.  The lifeguards…. the pool isn’t deep enough for lifeguards, let alone 4 of them, stopped mid step, mothers nearly (I’ve be overstating it if they really did) covered their children eyes.

The Aussie is going to swim 2kms, I can’t figure it out so I’m going to swim 108 lengths which is 1.5 miles – which is more than 2kms which would usually take me 40 minutes, but being at altitude might take me 55 minutes.  I’m there to swim, swim for a long time, and do it properly.

I’m not going to swim 108 lengths in a pair of baggy board shorts…. what else am I supposed to wear?

And, I just saw 20 penises in the change rooms.  Right now, I feel like I’m holding the modesty card.

After my 108 laps I feel like a sauna…. peer pressure makes me go back into the morass of cocks that is the American change room and put some dork shorts on so I am not the weirdo wearing a speedo.

I don’t get it, it is weird and this is why I spend all the time and treasure on this blog promoting speedos and why it is just normal.

It feels like I haven’t left the Australian summer the weather is so nice here…. that isn’t exactly what I want though being here for snowboarding.

After some turns this morning with Kip I went to the pool for a swim.

While I’m loving these new Arena speedos, they are just a little bit too skimpy for lap swimming.  Particularly when I’m the only one at the pool wearing a speedo.  So today I wore a pair of square cut shorts over them to maintain some level of modesty for these poor anti-speedo Americans.

After my swim I did take some more selfies for you guys…. of course members of this blog and SpeedoFetish.com get to see all of my selfies.  Interested in joining?  It really is worth it – click here to join now.

Brenton is an old online mate of mine who started his blog Aussielicious.com.au around the same time I started AussieSpeedoGuy.com.  We’ve worked on different things over the years and these days Kip even keeps his blog online.  Unlike me and my passion for speedos, Brenton takes it a little bit further and loves being nude.

It is fun following his adventures on his blog and yesterday he posted the comments below regarding speedos and modesty.

Given how paranoid most guys are in gym locker rooms about anyone seeing their junk you’d be forgiven for thinking that they go to the beach in neck-to-knee swimwear from an era long gone. You’d be wrong. Apparently all it takes for guys to feel comfortable is a tiny little piece of fabric covering their genitals. Australian’s all around the country are fans of speedo style swimwear. Sure there are guys that wear boardshorts but, especially in Sydney all the guys that live in the gym and get changed under a towel are the same guys wearing the skimpiest, tightest swimwear around. More often than not that same swimwear is designed to emphasise the exact area that they never show.

All of the popular brands seem to have a “pouch” style of swimwear designed to highlight and thrust forward your junk. I get that it makes it appear a bit more impressive than it really may be but it’s not going to turn a 4 incher into a 12 incher is it? Speedo style swimwear and even boardshorts when they are wet really don’t leave a lot to the imagination so it’s amazing that it only takes that little piece of fabric to not only preserve our modesty, barely, but also to give us the confidence to walk down the beach feeling great.

Interesting thoughts, during my time in America I found that it was the opposite in the locker rooms at the pool, guys were happy to strut around butt naked but nobody else would wear a speedo.  But in Aussie it is the opposite and I agree with Brenton’s sentiments.

Today I was looking up some stats for an Aussie Adult Store which is interested in advertising on this blog.  I wanted to know how many of my visitors were Australian and it turns out only 12% are Australian which was a little lower than I thought.

One thing I learnt is that during this current month, this blog has had visitors from 166 different countries.

The most common countries was the usual suspects, USA, Canada, UK but surprisingly, China was in the top 10.

It is great to see visitors from all sorts of places, 6 visitors from Saudi Arabia (don’t get caught guys), 22 visitors from Iraq, 10 visitors from Syria (stay safe guys), all the Pacific Islands were covered as well as South East Asia.  I think it is awesome that there are visitors not only from all over the world but also from all different religious backgrounds (I can’t tell the religion of a visitor but you know what I mean) – 326 visitors from India (Hindu), 20 from Egypt (Sunni Muslim majority) and 11 from Iran (Shia Muslim majority) and 1 person from Nepal (Buddhist).

Kind of a boring blog post but I thought it was interesting.

I really don’t get it guys.  Today I went for a swim around lunch time and as usual I was the only guy wearing a speedo.  There was a lot of lap swimmers, enough that I had to share a lane which I haven’t had to do for a while.

However, in the change room guys are walking around naked.

I don’t understand it, no speedos but walking around the change room naked.  In Australia it seems the opposite where it would be odd not to wear speedos while swimming laps but it would be weird to see that much nudity in a change room.

If anyone is at the pool tomorrow morning, I’ll be the only guy wearing a speedo.  I’ll wear an AussieBum speedo so feel free to say g’day.

Also, I’m still playing with some design ideas but thought I’d go back to this old layout.  What do you guys think?  I can’t post as many pics per post but it is easier scrolling.

Often I am asked how the ‘speedo culture’ is in Australia.

It is OK, at the pool everyone can wear speedos and nobody would look twice.  If you were a lifeguard or part of the surf life saving club, nobody would look twice.  I’m pretty sure ALL of my friends (who give the impression of being 100% str8) will own a pair of speedos to wear under their boardshorts.  If I go for a swim in the surf in the morning nobody would care.

So with that in mind – I suppose the ‘speedo culture’ is acceptable.

BUT – there is always a but.

But, there is no way I’d just wear them if my mates were having a Sunday afternoon on the beach having a few drinks and playing beach cricket.  I had a BBQ yesterday arvo at a mates place and he has a pool in his building complex – none of the guys would ever strip down to a speedo and have a dip in the pool.  Saying that…. the same guys after a few drinks would strip naked and go for a swim.

Perhaps the Aussie ‘speedo culture’ is ironic.  I’m sure if I hung out with a bunch of gay guys it would be different.

I would LOVE to be at the beach on a Saturday arvo and a game of beach volleyball starts up and all my mates are in speedos…..