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Leviathan September 25th, 2016 11:16 AM

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!

Sheep September 25th, 2016 3:39 PM

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.

Gabri September 25th, 2016 4:04 PM

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.

Meganium September 25th, 2016 6:02 PM

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".

Kotone September 28th, 2016 8:59 AM

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!

semi September 28th, 2016 10:02 AM

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.

Overlord Drakow September 28th, 2016 10:05 AM

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.

NinjaRaichu September 28th, 2016 11:05 AM

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.

IndigoBlue September 30th, 2016 7:21 PM

Yeah but I haven't gone for a swim in a while. I don't think I like it as much anymore.

Legobricks October 3rd, 2016 10:33 AM

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.

Altairis October 5th, 2016 11:42 PM

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.

Mr Cat Dog October 6th, 2016 2:58 AM

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.

Cordeline October 6th, 2016 7:22 PM

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 ^-^.

Mantic0re October 8th, 2016 6:14 AM

I can swim only on the back

LilyAnn October 8th, 2016 8:58 PM

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

NohBuddy2016 October 8th, 2016 9:04 PM

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.

Reyzadren October 8th, 2016 9:22 PM

No, I can't swim. Not everyone can swim.

Actually, I can't float. I could probably swim with a float.

Austin October 8th, 2016 10:26 PM

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!

RetroPokeman October 9th, 2016 8:12 PM

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.

Her October 10th, 2016 2:25 AM

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

moon October 10th, 2016 6:15 AM

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.

Boomerang Cutter October 12th, 2016 1:37 AM

I can, but not very well. It's been a couple years since i last went swimming.

0089 October 12th, 2016 7:34 PM

yes but not deep waters, though
to cut it short and simple, no

LuckyStar October 13th, 2016 3:35 PM

Yes, I learned in my childhood :)

Rune October 14th, 2016 6:06 PM

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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