Category Mermaiding

After our successful performance at LoveSwim and the growing interest in mermaiding, my swimming club will make one lane available for mermaiding during regular training sessions, on every first Friday of the month.

Our performance at LoveSwim led to our first private booking outside our swimming club. Tomorrow, we’ll be back in the water for an opening show at the anniversary celebration of Aart-Jan and Bert.

For LoveSwim 2025, we gave a short mermaid swimming demonstration. With only four training sessions, it wasn’t a full synchronized show, but we’re proud to have shown how beautiful and fun mermaid swimming can be.

In July 2025, I appeared together with fellow merman Maurice in LINDA.magazine, a popular Dutch magazine, in a portrait series about adult mermen. In this blog, I explain how that came about and why I ultimately said yes.

My partner and I attended a mermaid event for the first time. As non-participants in the competition, we needed some time to find our place within the program. Over time, it became a learning experience, full of valuable encounters and new insights.

During the summer, I was able to do mermaid swimming for half an hour at the end of the Friday training at my swimming club. After the summer, the extra half hour was unfortunately discontinued, but I remain hopeful that it will return.

After two years of mermaid swimming, I bought my first professional monofin and took it with me to Barcelona to try it out in the sea. At the same time, I started dreaming of a fixed spot in Amsterdam where I could swim as a merman more often.

Happy New Year! My swimming club organized a New Year’s dip at the Nieuwe Meer. I decided to join at the last minute — as a merman. It was cold, but the atmosphere was warm and cheerful.

Last week, a dream came true: together with two teammates from my swimming club, I organized my very first mermaid clinic. The turnout and responses were enthusiastic, and the clinic generated a lot of energy and curiosity.

After our holiday, I couldn’t wait to buy my own mermaid tail. Since you’re not allowed to swim with one in a regular pool, I tried mermaid swimming for the first time in the Gaasperplas, a lake near where we live.