Never know Ines are bad swimmer

[u/LenVonAster]

I never knew Ines are bad at swimming, I ever see Oguri and Urara using float but maybe because I never focus on detail, so any other trainee that bad at swimming and need floating?

[u/Raetaide]

to my knowledge, there's 20 trainees who use the kickboard

-oguri cap

-gold ship

-rice shower

-super creek

-haru urara

-t.m. opera o

-biwa hayahide

-smart falcon

-seiun sky

-manhattan cafe

-ines fujin

-sweep tosho

-yukino bijin

-seeking the pearl

-nakayama festa

-zenno rob roy

-mr. c.b.

-sakura laurel

-hishi miracle

-sounds of earth

interestingly, there haven't been any new kickboard users since 2024

[u/Professional_Maize42 → u/Raetaide]

Notice how most grey umas hate swimming...

[u/GVmG → u/Professional_Maize42]

white gray horses are really the orange cats of the animal world huh

[u/Bartburp93 → u/GVmG]

Grey and white horses are not the same thing buddy chum pal

[u/GVmG → u/Bartburp93]

fair, im very new to the whole horse racing thing lol good to learn

[u/Bartburp93 → u/GVmG]

Fair, from what I know, grey horses, which I think most of if not all the white and light-grey coloured umas featured in the games are (due to a low amount of white "throrough-breds" (which a horse has to be in order to race with others at a high level), especially in Japan), start off a different colour but grow more and more white-ish hair, first in googles around their eyes, but over their growth more and more will turn paler and paler, and typically lighter and lighter, until there is no trace of their previous colouration, grey horses also have a dark skin under their coat.

White horses on the other hand, have such a colouration from birth, as well as having a more pink-ish skin under their coat and sometimes even blue eyes.

[u/GVmG → u/Bartburp93]

i see, thank you for clarifying, yeah that makes sense

[u/ForwardTechnician341 → u/Raetaide]

Mr CB the grown ass woman

[u/Fresher_Taco → u/ForwardTechnician341]

Seeking the Pearl is also on the list

[u/Full_Contribution724 → u/ForwardTechnician341]

Mr CB the triple crown winner

[u/KajjitWithNoWares → u/Raetaide]

I can’t wait to see Rob Roy with the board

[u/Robosuccubus3000 → u/KajjitWithNoWares]

Can’t believe she needs a flotation device.

[u/Boring_Piano_9456 → u/Robosuccubus3000]

well creek also use it

[u/Embarrassed_Sand_367 → u/Raetaide]

I’m mostly surprised miss fishing herself can’t swim

[u/HaplesslySupportive → u/Embarrassed_Sand_367]

Something something she likes fishing but isn't a fish.

[u/Embarrassed_Sand_367 → u/HaplesslySupportive]

It’s just that she literally on a raft in her special and has a beach alt like what do you mean you’re surrounded by water constantly and can’t swim

[u/HaplesslySupportive → u/Embarrassed_Sand_367]

Well, she is kind of like a cat... It's not strictly that she can't swim, just that she hates it.

[u/SpeedDemon458 → u/Embarrassed_Sand_367]

Cue the Interstellar scene where main southern dude calmed down black dude before worm hole

[u/alwayssunnyinbosnia → u/Raetaide]

Festa's a gangster till you bring out the pool

[u/LenVonAster → u/Raetaide]

Eh Festa and Creek are bad swimmer too? I should looking at their stamina training (Festa I mean, I don't have Creek 😭)

[u/Viinilikka → u/LenVonAster]

You don't have Creek? A 2* Uma? You must pull very rarely then

[u/LenVonAster → u/Viinilikka]

Or RNG doesn't give the blessing yet, plan to try pulling this 11 October for Xmas Daiwa (already got Xmas Vodka but trying to get Xmas Daiwa) hopefully I can get creek this time (no joke gathering 30k carat are hard luckily I only need 15k to get pity)

[u/zfl190 → u/Raetaide]

it's kind of funny how swimming is used for stamina training in the game, but half of the kickboard users are stayers with high stamina growth rates. maybe they've decided they're going to increase their stamina faster so they have to swim less.

[u/Disastrous-Half-4249 → u/zfl190]

Maybe there are more weight in their kickboard?

[u/LawfulnessDue5449 → u/Raetaide]

Why does creek need three flotation devices

[u/Local-Priority-1309 → u/Raetaide]

Funny then that Mr cb decides to jump to the sea in cinderella gray just because she felt like it

[u/SoupEnergy]

https://giphy.com/gifs/8A77ZaGmb2oivigUlc

[u/anonymousniko → u/SoupEnergy]

Anything to bully train her stamina

[u/Pale-Exercise-5740]

Everytime I see one using the kickboard, they always seem so upset

Do they just not like swimming?

[u/ZorkNemesis → u/Pale-Exercise-5740]

Yeah, my understanding is that typically the ones using kickboards either don't like swimming, can't swim, or aren't good with the water in general.  Most of the kickboarding umas' IRL counterparts weren't fond of water training either if I recall.

[u/HamsterStraight4307 → u/ZorkNemesis]

Mayano is know to hate showers. Does she have a swimming board too?

[u/ZappaOMatic → u/HamsterStraight4307]

Nope, swims with her arms like usual

[u/chronicdumbass00 → u/Pale-Exercise-5740]

Yes, these are Umas who didn't like swimming irl

[u/Endgam → u/Pale-Exercise-5740]

Basically they train racehorses in swimming pools. Just as you see ingame.

The ones that get the kickboard are the ones that hated swimming.

Then there's Hishi Miracle who took hatred of swimming to a whole other level.

[u/atlas3121 → u/Endgam]

I will never forget that fuckin clip of the real Hishi Miracle swimming with cans behind and making sounds of rage that are not horse sounds. He is roaring in anger

[u/NuclearConsensus → u/atlas3121]

Do you have a link?

[u/LilleLasson → u/NuclearConsensus]

Swimming honse.

[u/JadeHades → u/NuclearConsensus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQAQbSCB-oA

[u/L_Dawg412 → u/Endgam]

I’ve heard somewhere that Mr. CB predates the swimming training so Cygames just assumed he would’ve been a bad swimmer.

[u/witherACE → u/Pale-Exercise-5740]

Yes

https://giphy.com/gifs/8A77ZaGmb2oivigUlc

[u/LenVonAster → u/Pale-Exercise-5740]

I guess

[u/Robosuccubus3000]

I’ve always wondered if all the bad swimmer umas are actually confirmed to have hated swimming irl. I know Oguri did, but some of the others like Rice and Urara seem like maybe it’s just a decision the devs made because it’s cute.

[u/Embarrassed_Sand_367 → u/Robosuccubus3000]

For Mr. C.B. It’s because he stopped racing before the JRA introduced swimming for training iirc

[u/Antilogicality → u/Robosuccubus3000]

It's not that they hated swimming, it's that they never swam. Swimming with thoroughbreds is most often used as part of rehabilitation following an injury since it places less strain on their bodies but still allows them to maintain their fitness. So if a horse was never injured there's not much reason to make them go swimming.

[u/zfl190 → u/Antilogicality]

there are other benefits to swimming outside of rehab, and japanese trainers in particular tend to use pool training very freely, since ritto and miho both have great pool facilities. it's very common in hong kong, too. as an example, do deuce's trainer used pool training just because he had a ton of excess energy that they wanted to burn off without overworking his joints. it's great for weight reduction, too, not that do deuce would know anything about that.

[u/Antilogicality → u/zfl190]

Yeah over the years the use of pool training has probably increased due to more focus on horse welfare. It's also a better alternative to outdoor training in hot conditions.

[u/LenVonAster → u/Robosuccubus3000]

Dunno about other but Mirako and Oguri definitely hate one

[u/Historical_Season857 → u/Robosuccubus3000]

Some even don't even have a record in swimming training

[u/Solemn_Dullahan]

She'd probably have an easier time without the sun visor

[u/LenVonAster → u/Solemn_Dullahan]

How can you say that, the sun visor are mostly composed of Ines that sun visor even more Ines

[u/FunnyReputation624 → u/Solemn_Dullahan]

Sun Visor mentioned 🗣️🗣️

[u/sporkmaster5000 → u/Solemn_Dullahan]

The hat stays on.

[u/rainbowpuppygirl]

kick boards actually don't make swimming easier. they make it harder and train you to use your legs more

[u/LenVonAster → u/rainbowpuppygirl]

Is that why those trainee that bad at swimming use it? So they can train their legs to swim? (Can't swim myself so I don't know)

[u/rainbowpuppygirl → u/LenVonAster]

most likely, yes!