Itâs like weâre getting punished for the localsâ inability to swim. 
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That roped off square area has about a 300m perimeter - verified using Garmin watches. A friend and I once swam over 5,000m meters going around and around that thing! Pissed us off that the whole lake wasnât open but we were determined to get in a long swim.
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If I had a penny for every time a big nose has used this argument with a life guard in Taiwan, well Iâd have a handful of pennies.
It is funny though when youâre literally in water up to your knees and some jobsworth is saying stand your ground, go no furtherâŚ
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So as long as you have no hair, youâre good to go? 
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No way Jose. As every baldy in Taiwan has discoveredâŚyou still need a swimming cap.
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Youâd have to prove it, drapes and curtains.
Bikini line. He doesnât shave - banned from three pools and a pair of coffee shops.
You talk like a piece of shit.
Nono, the piece of shit was floating in the pool.
A bald bear? Thatâd be something. 
So I went to the public gym at Wanhua youth park yesterday.
That place is always crowded, its only 50ntd per hour so it makes sense.
Anyway, the whole area has windows over looking the swimming pool. And as I was there running on a treadmill I couldnât help but think how I would rather be swimming. What a nice way to exercise, but fuck wearing speedos and a swimming hat.
And I realized something. The swimming pool is empty, and always is every time I go there. Locals feel the same way. Nobody wants to go to swimming because its just not worth it to follow those stupid and perverse rules.
I used to go swimming all the time back home growing up. None of the same stupid perverted rules. Not once was the swimming pool empty. Congrats idiots, you shot yourself in the foot there, no wonder nobody can swim here and nobody goes swimming and people are worried about ghosts drowning them. Pathetic.
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I was peeing in the pool, the life guard saw me and blew his whistle so loud I almost fell in 
Just kidding 
So nobody takes it seriously
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I regularly swim at two pools, one in Taipei and the other in New Taipei City, and I also occasionally swim at a second pool in Taipei and a pool in Hualien. Each pool has the speedos and caps rule. And none of the pools are empty. Two are way too packed for my liking (Songshan Sports Center and Xizhi Sports Center), but I go anyway, and the other two are full enough, I mean definitely not empty.
I donât think this rule bothers Taiwanese because itâs just the way it is here and has always been, at least for as long as Iâve been swimming in Taiwan.
I agree itâs an absurd rule, but come on, itâs not bad enough to avoid swimming altogether, is it? For the speedos, there are all kinds, so you can get one that fits your style better.
I get the jammers made of polyester (for durability), like this:
And you might test the rules one day and wear something baggier than speedos. Iâm hearing that this rule is loosening somewhat. It depends on the pool.
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Oh the boys donât like being treated like female athletes. How demeaning it must feel.
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The caps rule is already annoying. Thankfully I havenât been to any pool that also requires speedos. 
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I donât believe you.
This place is like the most famous sports center in Taipei. They even have their own song to promote the swimming pool.
Yet, its empty AF every single time I go there. And as I already said, nobody knows how to swim here and are scared of ghosts. Yea we all know why. Case closed.
I went to that pool quite a few time this summer. The life guards there are indeed very busy telling people off. I, almost bold, was reminded of the cap rule immediately after daring to step in the knee deep kidâs pool to tell our boy to come out. We also got a mouthful when we dared to go into the almost empty practice pool with a floating device. Our boy actually started to pee into that same pool in front of one of the lifeguards before l could pull him awayâŚ
Instead of enforcing those stupid rules they should fix up the aging space. Lot of safety and sanity issues.
I think the pools are empty this time of the year because people donât like cold water.
I think the pool in Dahu Park in Neihu is OK and the one in Zhonghe, but the lifeguards there can be annoying too.
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Iâm not an athlete i just want to take a relaxing swim without having my dick on show to the world and forced to wear a stupid skull cap because they want to skimp on pool cleaning fees.
Look, if they let people wear normal swimming clothes then you would get enough people want to come and swim for FUN that they could afford a cleaner.
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Thatâs okay, you donât have to take my word for it. Check out the websites of the sports centers in Taipei (and the one in Xizhi too), and you can see the numbers. At Nangang Sports Center, there are now at around 4:30 pm 72 people in the pool. This is a low time, right after the 2-4 pm free period for senior citizens. Letâs say 40 are doing the sauna, are in the showers, etc. Thatâs still 32 people in about 4-5 lanes (some are being used for lessons). If you swim halfway decently, it really sucks. Anyway, not empty. Not at the pools in Taipei anyway.
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its free and its not even half full. I rest my case. They canât even give swimming away for FREE.
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