Swimming

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Yep I can swim and i'm quite good at it, took me ages to learn though. Love diving aswell and going off the boards.

I've been trying to teach my son how to swim for quite a few years now. He's 9. He can tread water a bit. I think we're really close to him floating on his back. I'm hoping he can do it this year. He is HFA and not good at any sports, except for running.

I've always loved being in the water, and I go to the pool about once a week on average.

But I'm actually not a great swimmer--I have this kind of improvised crawl that I do, but I mostly like doing flips in the water, floating, and diving in. Oh, and then I have this 'spinning' thing that I do with a wakeboard that the regulars always tease me about.

I do not know how to swim.

I'm afraid of the water, always have been. As a child the counselors at camp always pushed me to learn how to swim. I just couldn't do it and there were some counselors in the camps that I went to that would force me to dunk my head (or put my face in the water). I cannot take water going into my eyes and face. I actually wear goggles when I wash my hair in the shower and have a really hard time at the eye doctor with the eye drops and glaucoma test.

Swimming is the only exercise (besides skiing) I can do without fainting, due to my low blood pressure. I was a slow swimmer, but since I love it, it didn't matter.
I'm thinking of taking lessons again. That would be fun!

Can you swim? Yes.
Do you still swim? Maybe once a year.
When have you learned swimming? I was 6, in England at primary school.
Was it easy or hard to learn? Pretty easy. I kind of swam when I was small in the bathtub. I was scared of the deep end until I mastered floating. I've never managed to jump from a high diving board.

I learned to swim at a pretty early age and pretty much figured it out on my own from watching others, but I hated to put my face under the water, especially getting my ears or my nose underwater. I still don't like doing that too often. I have never understood how someone could drown by just falling in water, as I quickly learned how easy it was to stay afloat by taking a deep breath, and paddling.

My swimming form is terrible, but I am remarkably good at it. I usually do just overhand freestyle, as that what seems to be most efficient for me. I can do the butterfly, and it's good for going through high seas and waves, but it doesn't get me particularly far quickly.

When I was a teenager, like 18 or 19 or so, I swam across the Piankatank river near the Chesapeake Bay (about 2 miles) to Gwynns Island. I remember crossing the channel where it's over 30 feet deep, and almost getting run over by some big motor yachts. I did it just to see if I could, but after I got to the other side, I then got bored with it and didn't feel like swimming back. The problem was that by land, it was about a 40 mile trip up river to a bridge to cross back over to get back to the campground I was staying at. I ended up deciding just to swim it back, but about halfway across, I swam up to a boat where a bunch of people were fishing, and they let me climb aboard. There were some nice looking girls aboard too. I hung out with them for a little while, and then they dropped me off at the sandbar near the campground about 1/4 mile out, and I swam it back.

That excursion took most of the day, and when I got back, my family was worried where I went, because my car, boat, and my bike was still at the campground, and they couldn't figure out where I went without any of those!

It's pretty unusual for people here in Australia not to know how to swim. Its a real cultural thing. I can definetely swim, but I get too over excited and scared all at once, and so get tired in about two seconds and need to grab onto someone to get my breath back. Its very funny.

I love swimming and the water but the pools around here are usually too crowded for me to swim in happily. Plus now I have scars that are fairly obviously from self-inflicted stuff on my thighs and I'd rather not show them off.

I cannot swim. My arms and my legs don't coordinate with each other. As a child I was very afraid of the water (bath time was tantrum time for many years) but then at about 13 I figured out how to put my head under water. I've never progressed further than that.

jup, i can swim - breastroke, crawl, backstroke. id love to learn butterfly some day.

i rarely go swimming these days, though. maybe this summer, who knows...
when i was younger, i even took lifeguard training for several years: lots of endurance training, waterborne self-defense (against panicky people), swimming while dragging other people, diving...

i learned swimming before entering school. my dad took me to the pool weekly to teach me. we would go having pizza (or went to whatever kind of restaurant we felt like) afterwards. that was like our mens ritual.

learning was not that hard... but at that young age, not many skills are hard to learn.