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Summary: Swim caps can be made out of soft silicone rubber, light latex or comfortable Lycra material depending on how the swim cap will be used. Customize silicon or latex swim caps with a team logo using advice from the owner of a swimwear shop in this free video on swimming accessories.
Hector Inga started Lane Four Swim Shop in Austin, Texas in 1989. Since its inception as an outlet for local swimmers to buy competitive swimwear, Lane Four has expanded to the Houston...read more
"Hello, my name is Hector Inga, owner of Lane Four Swim Shop, and I wanted to talk to you about swimming caps. Swimming caps come in a variety of materials to be used as different purposes. One material that is used is rubber, and this one is kind of like an old school cap, it's called a bubble cap, it comes with a chin strap, and you see a lot of older ladies wearing this style cap. However the most used nowadays are the either silicone cap, which is something like this, it has man made material, very soft, it's a silicone rubber. Also we have a latex cap that it is also derived from rubber, very light and probably a preferred cap for higher competitive swimmers. This cap tends to grab onto the hair a little bit, silicone cap tends to be a little bit softer. And also we have caps made out of Lycra, which is the same materials as the swimsuits. Within these caps, these two caps, mainly the silicone and the latex, they also can be customized, a lot of the teams put their team logos on the caps, that is something very exclusively made, not very many printers will be able to do this, there's only a couple, or three printers in the United States that do this process. This is a sample of a silicone cap printed, this is a sample of a latex cap printed. And we normally we do not customize the Lycra caps. High schools teams, national teams, they all use either latex or silicone, and they put their names, they put the event, they put their team logos or their country logos as well."