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Can you swim?
And when did you learn? I ask because I've heard from a couple people recently that they don't know how to swim which I thought was weird because I learned when I was really young.
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Of course. Have a pool in the backyard. Great for Summer exercise.
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I love to swim. I love being in the water. It makes me so happy, I feel so in my element. I've been swimming honestly since I can remember. When I was younger and lived with my grandparents, they had a pool in their backyard and they let me swim when I was still just a baby. Of course, I was in a floaty cause I couldn't really swim yet, but it was only a few years later that I learned how.
When I was in second grade I almost drowned. I got scarily close, actually. I was at a pool party for my friend Monica, (the super rich girl in the class with 2 doctor's for parents and a ridiculous mansion with an in ground pool) and I was swimming and having a great time. Playing with my friends, chilling, doing tricks, etc. Well, my friend Jessica got there and it all went downhill. Jessica didn't know how to swim, but she insisted on following me everywhere I went in the pool. Everywhere. I started heading for the deep end so I could keep doing tricks with my friends and before I knew it I was drowning. I couldn't get up. Jessica had followed me and was holding me under, pushing herself up above the water. It gets blurry here, and I don't know how much time I really spent under the water..but I know it was long enough for it to really really start hurting me and I remember thinking "I'm going to heaven today, I'm going to heaven today" over and over. Luckily, Monica's mom realized Jessica was holding me under and she jumped in (fully clothed) and got Jessica out so I could float back to the top and, well, breathe. My mom made me get out of the pool to make sure I was okay and didn't have any brain damage or anything. I was fine, so I got back in the pool. Monica's mom called me a trooper for jumping back in, but to me it was just common sense. I didn't have a near-death experience because I didn't know how to swim. I wasn't bitter towards the water; I was kinda miffed at Jessica for not listening to me when I said NOT TO FOLLOW ME TO THE DEEP END but we made up and everything was fine. Oh, and I never swam with her again. |
I was deadly afraid of the water as a child ever since I almost got lost in the fucking ocean if my Mom didn't save me. As I grew a bit older during my childhood swimming came naturally so I got used to it. No one helped me and I learned on my own so I'd say that's one of my better accomplishments in life. Of course I learned how to swim in a pool. I haven't been in actual pool for years though.
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i can swim. i learned in like, 4th grade. after that though i moved around a lot and grew older and never shaved my legs and stuff so i never went swimming like ever but now that i live in alabama and it's hot i shave my legs and whatnot and now i go swimming again but i'm not very good at it. i mostly doggy paddle. ;v;
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I've been in the pool ever since I was about 6 months old. I probably learned to swim on my own when I was 4 maybe? My parents taught me at a very young age because my grandma had a pool and we were swimming there nearly every day in the summer.
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I can, but I can't very well. I think a lot of this is due to my weight. I also love to swim because my mom started getting me into the water when I was actually very young. I also did take swimming lessons as a child too. I am somewhat afraid of drowning and have to have support from a pool noodle. I know it won't save my life, but it provides me with a sense of safety and security. I also wear diving goggles because I have a sensitivity to chlorine being in my eyes.
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I think i learned how to swim at 6 years old, but its possible i learned younger. I have seen old pictures of myself with those floaty things on my arms younger than 6, so its possible.
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Took swimming classes when I was around 6 years old and I've just known how to since then. I used to go on holiday quite a bit so that always helped when swimming in the hotel pools.
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I was in swim last year.
I don't really know when I learned how to swim, I just kind of did it. |
I would be one of those people who can't swim. :P When I go to the pool I just kind of splash around at the shallow end or float out on those puffy things.
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yep, i was on a swim team for 5 years. i even have a pool in my backyard.
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^ pretty much the same as Cay, swam on swim team as a kid and now I'm even a swim instructor haha
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I can but I'm not particularly good at it. The only stroke I'm not laughable at is breaststroke. Mind you, this is probably because I'm self taught lol. I hated swimming lessons but still wanted to swim with friends so I learned.
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Well I live in the hot desert of Arizona, so you are pretty odd if you can't swim. Swimming is pretty much the only outdoor activity you can do here, so everyone I know is a pretty good swimmer.
I learned to swim when I was 2, and all of our dads would swim with us and we learned how to float. I was on swim team for a while, until I learned how boring it is to swim laps over and over again. |
I did swimming lessons when I was a kid in elementary school. But when I moved to florida those swimming lessons stopped. Looking back I really wished they continued because if I was going to be part of any sports team in High School it likely would have been the swim team because I really do enjoy swimming.
But alas. |
I really don't remember when I learned to swim. I'm pretty sure my mom taught me at a very young age. I love being in the water though. I don't swim as often as I would like to during the summer months just because time doesn't permit me to do so.
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I can! I was taught by friends when I was 11. I can't swim for great distances though since I'm rather unfit.
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I can swim but not very well.
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Hell yeah! I was on a swim team in high school, and I still do competitive swimming from time to time.
In high school I had to shave my legs, but now I keep them hairy. We need more hairy-legged swimmers. |
Yep, I can swim. I took lessons starting when I was 3, I think, and I was on a swim team at one point. I haven't really done much swimming in years, though. I wouldn't mind getting back into it (it's good exercise, and can be a lot of fun), but I don't have access to a pool at the moment.
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I used to love swimming. I learned how to swim when I was around seven and up until I was about 11 or 12, I went to the pool almost everyday during the summer. I haven't been to the pool ever since because the community life guard tells me to get out because I don't do much in the pool except do a couple laps every couple minutes. I would totally love to get in the pool again.
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When I was little I cant remember what age but my mum and I did joint swimming sessions with an instructor.
But at one of my primary schools we had a swimming pool so we did PE in the swimming pools and at my other primary school in year 6 we were taken to our city swimming centre for p.e. I really do love swimming and its a shame im too lazy to get up out of bed. |
I learnt when I was a kid, at school, haven't swam since.
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Never properly learned how to swim, never had a desire to do so. Had a bad experience with a pool when I was a kid that put me off ever going into water that I couldn't stand in, so I never bothered taking lessons because there was no way I was going into water that ever needed it anyway.
Even now, while I can swim somewhat (very basic stuff), I can't do it very well. |
Think I was able to swim without any supports before I became a teenager. Though I haven't gone for a swim in a few years now!
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Ya, not very well anymore though. As a kid I used to go to the beach aaaaall the time but ever since we moved to the US I stopped being as interested/family didn't go as much. Doesn't help that half the time the beaches here are in gross condition which deters me a looot.
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nope
Never learned, was deathly afraid of drowning if I tried, and was never interested anyways. I will enter a pool but only to sit back and relax, not to swim around. |
I learned at a pretty young age. My parents claim that I loved the water ever since I was a baby. My skills greatly improved when I was growing up and my mom threw me into swimming classes. I was encouraged to join the swim team, but with my atrocious grades during freshman year of high school, the athletic director was like "lolnope".
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When I was little, I took swimming lessons. I then did swim team in the summer during grade school. Yes I know how to swim!
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My mother found it very important to start learning most skills she thought to be basic at a young age (English, swimming, etc.), so I started swimming lessons in the summer before I knew my ABC by heart. At the time, I thought this new freestyle I invented, the "deadman", was ingenious. I quit swimming at nine years of age, and if you ever dump me in a pool without goggles anytime soon, I probably wouldn't last.
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I learnt as a kid but didn't do it properly for about a decade so I struggled in my later teen years. Nowadays, due to my excellent physical condition, I can swim reasonably well. I can only do the freestyle though. Backstroke and butterfly are beyond me now.
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I cant, never learned because I didn't have any interest in it, given the weather here the only time i'd ever be in water is an indoor pool so Its not high on my priorities.
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Yeah but I haven't gone for a swim in a while. I don't think I like it as much anymore.
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I did learn to swim 'properly' in my youth, but I prefer the natural dog paddle.
About people whom claim to be unable to swim, well, every mammal can swim, I think, if pressed. Horses and dogs are never 'taught to swim' but they can to some extent cross reasonably calm water all the same. I don't see why humans should be any different, if not superior at this kind of thing, at least once they reach adolescence (I see a trend here of people learning when they're around eleven). I remember when I first learned to tread water I was just doing what felt intuitive anyway. |
I can swim but I freeze up when I'm in the ocean cause I can't see the bottom. Weird. I'm scared of it haha.
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Yeah, learned pretty young. My sole memory of that period in my life is my swimming instructor (a stocky woman with the thickest Scottish accent you can imagine) yelling at all of us in the class to PUUUUUUUUUUSH against the wall whilst kicking up a storm. I can barely remember what I ate for lunch yesterday, but I'll remember that swimming instructor for the rest of my life.
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Yup. My grandparents from my dad's side used to own a vacation home faraway from the city and it had a pool. I started playing in that pool when I was very young and I never really feared water. I think my dad started teaching how to swim when I was 6? I never took any classes, just kinda picked it up with some help because that place was very fun and my favorite thing was the pool ^-^.
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I can swim only on the back
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No one ever wanted to take the time to actually teach me how to swim. So I can't. But I plan on learning how very soon. So hopefully one day i will
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Oddly enough, I didn't learn to swim until I was 16, and even then, it took me a few weeks to even get used to it.
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No, I can't swim. Not everyone can swim.
Actually, I can't float. I could probably swim with a float. |
I took swimming lessons for 3 years from the ages 6-9. I think I'm a pretty good swimmer, even though I don't go swimming that often. I have fun when I do, though!
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I learned to swim in a local river when I was around 14. Occasionally hitting my toe over a rock or seeing an aquatic snake swim by didn't bother me much in my teens, but I greatly prefer pools now.
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we locked that down as young as possible bc why not
can't remember not being able to swim, i used to do competitions as a kid but i'm more akin to a whale shark now than the sleek otter of my youth |
Yep, learned when I was around 6 and that was considered pretty late. Everybody here learned to swim as a kid, in special swimming schools during summer or sometimes also during the cold year indoors. I did both, for fun! We were a little fun squad swimming around in the summer sun.
I hate diving though; I have a serious fear of deep water. Or shallow water. The bottom of lakes. Undersides of boats. Basically of anything that has been underwater. |
I can, but not very well. It's been a couple years since i last went swimming.
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yes but not deep waters, though
to cut it short and simple, no |
Yes, I learned in my childhood :)
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I actually decided to properly learn how to swim last year after watching the infamous swimming anime just because I had nothing to do and I needed exercise. Managed to learn three of the four main strokes (front crawl, back, breast). Before this, I could float, doggy paddle, random paddle, and dive; things that regular people count as swimming I guess. I used to go swimming when I was a kid and taught myself to go on (and dived into) the deep end all the way back when I was 9 years old. Had an instructor too back when I was younger but he was never able to get me off the floaties for some reason.
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I passed the Navy qualifying swim test, so I think I pass for 'yes I can swim'. I can retrieve my gear, blow bubbles, turn my pockets inside out, take off my boots, dive, etc. I failed level two though. But I was elbowed in the face. They sent us out in the double digits so it was bound to happen to somebody. I laughed at the panicky ones, though. Wrong, but funny. The look of sheer terror. I guess that's not fair though, some people really are afraid of swimming, just like I live in constant fear of a cockroach climbing into my food when I'm not looking. It's never happened, but it could, right?
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I can swim. Not amazingly, but well enough...
I have an uncle who is the captain of a ship and has worked on boats his whole life, but he can't swim... Always found that strange haha |
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