Can you swim?

daidreamer

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I can swim too but to get me into the water, doesn't happen unless I have my jeans and tshirt on.. cause you can't get me into a bathingsuit NOPE!!!
 

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Oh I am so sorry! There is always a tragic story it seems every summer!

My Dad threw us off the dock at age 4 and walked away!!!! Can you believe it? His version of swimming lessons. But we all learned really fast and summer swim team was mandatory during grade school years.
 

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Well, I almost drowned when I was about 3 yrs. old
, and I still have trouble putting my head under water. I feel like I'm suffocating... I can dog paddle like the wind, though!
 

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good to see there are other mermaids here! I was a swim instructor, lifeguard instructor and on the synchronized swimming team at uni. Im doing tons of crunches everyday for bikini season, but my cossie still looks good on!

my mom HATES swimming. she tried to get me to teach her, but I will never teach adults (unless the pay is awesome!). kids are ok because even if they are scared, they will try to conquer their fear. Adults have a very clear picture of what it means to drown and have many years to reinforce their fears. Giving a cat a bath is easier than teaching a scared adult how to swim, IMO!
 

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We all have swimming lessons at school right from when we start school in this area.

I can swim - well enough to get myself out of danger and enough to enjoy doing lengths of the pool to relax. But I don't like having my face under water and never have.

Hubby and kids swim too.
 

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I could swim before I could walk. My mother enrolled us in Mommy and Me swimming classes when I was just a tot and I had swimming lessons all through elementary school because I went to daycare at the Y.

I can't imagine the idea of a parent not having their children learn how to swim as far as I'm concerned it is a life skill that no one should be without. Sooner or later, any person will come in contact with a body of water large enough to fall into and drown in whether it be lake, or creek, or pond, or river or ocean, or swimming pool and let's face it the chances of an accident happening are reasonable enough to take into account.
 

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I am not a fast or stylish swimmer but I can stay afloat for hours and I don't panic if I find myself under water - I learnt basics as a child but really realised I had to know what to do in different situations when I took up sailing and windsurfing. My daughter could swim when she was three, but her father never learnt, and refused to try, though he insisted on going out in a dinghy (with a life jacket) despite my telling him how stupid he was on a number of occasions!
 

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I had lessons from the age of 2-12. I was a big child so I never felt really comfortable in the water, now that I'm slim I love swimming but I'm not that great!
 

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We belonged to a swim club when I was a kid, and all took swimming lessons. I had "swimmer's ear" constantly, though, so swimming isn't something I really enjoy.
 

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I can swim. I pretty much taught myself, though my mom helped a little, it just clicked with me. But I didn't learn how to swim until I was 12 I think. They didn't have too many pools in Oklahoma, and the lake we lived directly by sure was pretty, but it really wasn't. We went swimming in there once, I cut my foot on glass that was there because some idiot threw a beer bottle in the lake. The other time, I got a disease called Impetigo, where you get a sore out of nowhere, and it becomes infected, and will remain infected unless medical help is sought. Well, before we realized this, it was going through my system, and every sore I got turned into an infection... bad ones, too. Needless to say, I never went in that freakin' lake again!
My brother did, though.... all at once, he got three different illnesses from it... Pink eye and two others I can't remember.
After that, no one in our family went back to that lake!
 

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Actually, I can't. I've always have been afraid of going under water since when I was little, I fractered my collar bone when I slipped and fell in the pool (I didn't know how to swim) I panicked and when I came up, my shoulder hit the side of the pool and ever since, I've stayed away from pools.
 

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I love to swim! When I was young I would hold me breath for a really long time and pretend I was a mermaid.
 

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I LOVE swimming and swim 1/2 a mile a day in the summer. There is no better exercise, as far as I am concerned. I think EVERY man,woman, and child ought to know how to swim.
 

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Originally Posted by batgirl2good

I LOVE swimming and swim 1/2 a mile a day in the summer. There is no better exercise, as far as I am concerned. I think EVERY man,woman, and child ought to know how to swim.
Well really it's the best full body workout there is, according to most exercise physiologists! It's so easy on your joints and runs the gamet as far as muscle workouts go, not to mention the great cardio you get as well!
 

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I am one test, a freakin impossible test, The Nationals, away from being a qualified Life Guard
Maybe this September I will go do it~
 
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