Can you swim?

[Imperator161]

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.

 

[Reunilu]

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.

 

[Thepokefansophia]

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.

 

[tranceking26]

I learnt when I was a kid, at school, haven't swam since.

 

[Sylphiel]

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.

 

[Leviathan]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[Legobricks]

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]

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]

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]

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]

I can swim only on the back

 

[LilyAnn]

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