Mermaid workshop in JB

Most of us as kids would have watched shows featuring the mythical mermaid, such as The Little Mermaid or Barbie in a Mermaid Tale, and dreamt of frolicking in rolling ocean waves while donning a gorgeous fishtail. But these dreams, unattainable to our childhood selves, stayed only as dreams.

Perhaps as adults, many of us still fantasise about escaping our mundane lives for a moment living out what our childhood selves could only imagine. Well, there’s a mermaid workshop in JB where you’ll learn mermaiding and see if being a mermaid is anything like you imagined.

What is mermaiding?

Screenshot from: @xinxinmermaid via Instagram

Mermaiding is the activity of swimming while dressed like a mermaid, usually using a fabric or silicone mermaid tail with a monofin that keeps both feet together. Instead of kicking your legs separately like in normal swimming, you move your whole body in a dolphin-like wave motion to propel yourself through the water.

Essentially, it’s dressing up as a mermaid and actually swimming elegantly as one. So yes, it’s the closest you can get to cosplaying Princess Ariel underwater.