Swimming Lessons

So, can you swim?
Who taught you?
How old were you when you learnt?
Did you ever have swimming lessons?

 

Yes I can swim. I've been swimming since I was a baby. At six months old my mom would take me down to the public pool, blow in my face, dunk me and I would swim to the top and tread water. haha I was always in water during the summer and taught myself how to swim. I never had to wear those arm floats or life jackets.

 

I can sort of swim. Not well.
I struggled to learn until I was 8 or so, and I got by on breast stroke for a while.
Then I went to Australia, and the waves there really kicked my ass, so my friend ,who was quite the swimmer, ended up teaching me. I think he did so out of fear of me drowning and also for mocking rights.

I still suck at it though. I did a 400 meter swim test a few months ago, and the only person to finish later than me was this 45-year old office rat.

 

I grew up by a lake (and the sea wasn't far either) so I've been swimming since I was very little. Never had swimming lessons, my mum loves swimming so she taught me.

 

i have been swimming since i was a baby...it was basically they put little floatie things on my arms and let me go and once i got the hang of that i didnt wear them i just swam myself...when i was around 8 i guess i took some lessons for like different strokes and stuff but it was pretty boring cause it was so easy so i just did it myself...

 

weird, i can say pretty much the same. parents threw me in the pool when i was 3 months. started swim lessons soon after so i could join the swim team. when i was old enough, i started to compete with the YMCA, then moved to compete with the boys and girls club and dominated for a good while. i got burnt out, so i stopped swimming. after feeling i was done being burnt out, i competed up into D3 college level and did alright for someone my size haha

so yea, i love swimming

 

Yes, I can and I absolutely love swimming. I did have lessons, in like 3rd grade but just because it was obligatory.

 

I've been swimming as long as I can remember, my mom tells me that i learned by being thrown in the pool and either sinking or swimming...i asked what would of happened had I sank? and she just laughed

 

I can swim... sorta. But I'm not a very strong swimmer. I got held back a year with swimming lesson's as a kid because I refused to let go of the little flutter board thing. I didn't think that was possible.

We dont have any pools or beaches out this way anyway. I dont even own a swim suit. Just as long as I know I'm not too far from the shore, I'm happy. But I would still love to go snorkling someday. I'd just need someone to drag my ass back up to the surface

 

seems like a lot of us were just tossed in the water to fend for ourselves :biggrin:

its how i'm going to teach my kids. pussy parents will be kicked in the throat if they say anything to me

 

I don't know what would have happened to me....my mom can't swim worth a shit.

 

It's pretty rare in my country if you can't swim.

 

I had swimming lessons when I was 8 years old with my 4 year old little brother and he was such a little cry baby that the lessons were mostly spent trying to coax him in the water. I taught myself to float on my face and wiggle my arms and legs to move in my own pool at the house. I also taught myself the backstroke. I kicked ass at swimming for a long time, but it's been a long time since I've been swimming more than just bobbing around in the water and playing with friends, so I'm not so great at it anymore.

 

I have been swimming since the beginning of time..I once swam a half mile across a lake that had alligators.

 

I love to swim, dad has a swimming pool in his house so it was a lot of fun to run downstairs past midnight and jump in the pool... good times

 

I can swim, but it takes me a while to get comfortable in water. especially murky water.

 

i had infant swimming lessons which, like many people's here, consisted of being thrown in the water and left to fend for myself. then i forgot how to swim during my toddlerhood. i had swimming lessons again when i was 6ish, and i got nothing out of it, at least in part because the water was about 35 degrees at all times and i couldn't concentrate on anything other than not freezing. then when i was around 10 i taught myself how to swim, and within a few years i was one of the better swimmers i knew. now it's still one of my favorite summertime activities.

 

I took swimming lessons. And my father participated in swimming competitions in his youth; he taught me some. And my stepfather. I swim ok, and it's my favorite physical activity.

 

Whereabouts do you go? Public or private pool?

 

no i can`t, i`m scared of water