Swim Caps - Part Two

This second and final post about swim caps, follows Part One, which compared latex caps to silicone.  Choosing between latex and silicone doesn't present much challenge, but getting the rubbery, slippery, stretchy things onto your your swimmer's head, can be.

After researching several dozen how-to videos on the subject, there is no one "proper" way to put on a swim cap ... in fact its hard to find two people who do it exactly the same.  Below are a few tried and true approaches and a few that are not so common.

These two people first demonstrate a solo method, then one assists the other.  The two-man approach works well with younger children ...

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Two different methods for long hair ... one puts her hair up first, the other puts the cap on, then stuffs her hair into the cap afterward ...

Front to back method.  (Notice how she cups her hands inside the cap to avoid poking her fingernails through the cap) Of course it helps when the cap is a big as a boat cover ...

Back to front method ...

Grip it and rip it method (not recommended for latex caps, as it can rip them)  ...

The charging bull method ...

Super fast method ...

If you're still having trouble getting the cap on your swimmer's head, consider putting their whole body in it ...

I told you silicone caps were super stretchy