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MathematicalOwl
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03 Aug 2013, 9:45 am

I can ride a bike fairly well, but I can't swim well. I couldn't swim at all until a few years ago.



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03 Aug 2013, 10:02 am

I gave up trying to ride a bike when I was a child. Couldn't stay on the thing.



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03 Aug 2013, 11:54 am

i swim with my arms and dont kick my legs at all i just end up kicking my other foot but can ride a bike really well



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03 Aug 2013, 12:43 pm

I can swim well & really like to swim, I was on the swim team as a kid. Learning to ride a bike was difficult, but I did it. Haven' t rode a bike in years & riding a bike near traffic is just too risky to me.


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03 Aug 2013, 1:02 pm

Jasper1 wrote:
It baffles me that your country has a bicycling diploma. I've never heard of that.

In canada, basically your parents, gaurdians, older siblings, family teach you to ride a bike. It's not anything that's enforced. It's more like a typical rite of passage for most children.

Swimming for the most part is the same. Except in gym class, provided the school has a pool or easy access to one, there might be a few times were some basic swimming lessons are taught, but that is about it.


It is more or less the same in my country, Denmark, - but since everybody seems to be bicycling, I wonder why we dont have education for bicyclists. Many of them could do with a few lessons.
Swimming is taught in schools here and there, but it ought to be given real time in the schedule, as we are surrounded by water.


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03 Aug 2013, 1:21 pm

In later childhood I took swimming classes for a few years, but I never seemed to be able to get my arms and legs to cooperate, - so I was stuck with dog-paddling, - until one day:
I was floating and floating, enjoying the sun, the clouds and the soft movement of the waves. At a point, I felt it safer to look where I was, and dove down, - and down, - until I saw some dark seaweed and was pulled outward by a cold stream. I got out of the stream, paddled up in panic and looked for land, - and I SWAM like if I hadn´t been doing anything else all my life!
Guess I had learned something from the swimming class afterall.


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03 Aug 2013, 3:03 pm

I love being in the water, its something about the whole body stimulation of the water. But I can only manage breast stroke at best, and then not over a big distance. I don't have any fear of swimming underwater though.

I can't remember if I had trouble learning to ride a bike, but I rode one through most of my childhood and went everywhere on it. I can't say as I'm a very good bike rider though. I just don't quite handle the countersteering at higher speeds too well, so have to really slow down for corners. I had a motorbike for a while and gave that up due to balance and processing problems.

My handwriting by the way is terrible.


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