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JM Ver. 2.0
06-23-2013, 23:38
Quick! Everyone go look in Monky's happy birthday thread!
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Like a rock...[Coffee]
When I went through R.I.P. I actualy found out I can learn rather quickly when you have instructors yelling at you to get your head back up.
Now I can swim rather well,just people look funny at me when I make a floatie out of my pants...
ChunkyMonkey
06-23-2013, 23:43
How else did I get here?
How else did I get here?.
[ROFL1]
hurley842002
06-24-2013, 00:01
How else did I get here?
LOL
I wouldn't say I'm a swimmer, but I can flail about and create forward motion without drowning. I greatly prefer to be able to touch bottom though. And salt water swimming ain't my thing. I also fear harpoons.
The Norseman
06-24-2013, 00:15
Lifelong swimmer...very proficient.
I'm always baffled to find that people can't swim. However, I haven't taught my own kid to swim yet, so I'm kind of a hypocrite.
JM Ver. 2.0
06-24-2013, 00:25
I'm always baffled to find that people can't swim. However, I haven't taught my own kid to swim yet, so I'm kind of a hypocrite.
Well be baffled now, sir.......
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Madeinhb
06-24-2013, 00:58
Like a fish. Was on swim teams through high school.
BuffCyclist
06-24-2013, 01:09
A roommate in college never learned how to swim and he grew up in California on the beach.
My fiancee can't swim and yet we're heading to Hawaii for our honeymoon...
Yes
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I can sorta kinda keep my head above water if everything is going good. I don't consider that swimming. I don't do water more than ankle deep.
And can also be superstitious at times. I almost died driving, that's by land. I almost died flying, that's by air. They say the third time is the charm. There ain't no way I'm going in water in case the third time gets me.
I'm always baffled to find that people can't swim. However, I haven't taught my own kid to swim yet, so I'm kind of a hypocrite.
I'm baffled by your bafflement. As I see it the only reason to know how to swim is to keep from drowning. The easiest way to keep from drowning is to not go in the water.
[Dunno]
My Dad tried to hold us under with a stick. Still trying to figure out if he was actually teaching us to swim.
Like a fish. Was on swim teams through high school.
Ditto. I used to swim about 2.5-5 miles a day, depending on the focus of practice for the day. I'm sure my endurance isn't like it was then, but I'm not going under without a fight.
TEAMRICO
06-24-2013, 07:53
Is this one of the Dem poll questions?
Poll: Can you swim? Yes or No?
Printed later as: Do you support gun control and the Obama Agenda?
Reported as: 100 percent of Americans Support Gun Control!
rockhound
06-24-2013, 08:04
better than most, ran a few triathlons when i was younger, last one required a two mile ocean swim
buffalobo
06-24-2013, 08:27
Yes. Many a summer spent at local pool.
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JM Ver. 2.0
06-24-2013, 08:44
I don't think enough people saw this.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/06/24/e3umuruj.jpg
This is payback for making fun of me for not being able to swim.
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ZERO THEORY
06-24-2013, 08:45
Well enough for a cardio workout. But I imagine my breaststroke wouldn't even be up to snuff on a high school freshman swim team.
buffalobo
06-24-2013, 08:50
he's lying there are no pools in Hoyt. i dont think livestock troughs count. (although thats what my kids have all grown up swimming in)
ROFLMAO. Well played.
Plenty of time spent in livestock tanks as a kid.
Even funnier is the fact that my dad just bought a tank and put it in his front yard for when my sisters kids visit him.
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I swam competitively from age 6 to 18, was instructing as a WSA at 13, got my lifesaving cert at 15...yeah, I'm pretty comfortable in the water.
BPTactical
06-24-2013, 09:20
I swam competitively from age 6 to 18, was instructing as a WSA at 13, got my lifesaving cert at 15...yeah, I'm pretty comfortable in the water.
But now you are much more buoyant!
I nearly drowned in a pool when I was 4, the next summer I was in swim lessons. Swam a bunch as a kid don't do it near enough now.
Swimming is easier than most people think. Just gotta learn to relax. Most people panic and sink.
Cylinder Head
06-24-2013, 09:53
Swimming is easier than most people think. Just gotta learn to relax. Most people panic and sink.
Most people also breathe all of the air out of their lungs then proceed to breathe very shallow, which destroys your buoyancy. I can swim like a dolphin and my fiancée sinks like a rock every time she gets in water. Despite me attempting to impart this lesson on her, she goes right back to panic mode.
BPTactical
06-24-2013, 10:14
The hardest thing about my swim lessons was getting out of the burlap bag as it was sinking......
Yes.
I'm always amazed when I meet people who don't know how to swim. Coming from So. Cal swimming is a right of passage. I've met quite a few people in CO who cannot swim.
My son is starting swim lessons next month. We boat/Jet ski recreationally so swimming is a necessity for our children.
Chad4000
06-24-2013, 10:25
Got pretty decent during my few years in HI. You get to surfing the right (or wrong lol) spot, and you will need to get good at swimming fast lol
kawiracer14
06-24-2013, 10:30
Just did a half ironman in Kona, and didn't drown in the ocean, so I guess I swam well enough.
Shouldn't the question really be: "Are you white?"
I find the OP's question racially offensive.
Chad4000
06-24-2013, 10:54
Just did a half ironman in Kona, and didn't drown in the ocean, so I guess I swam well enough.
most of the surfing I did was body boarding (sandy beach if youve heard of it), so I got real good at swimming with fins. I get in the pool sometimes these days and wonder why im so slow lol.. "oh yeah, not wearing power fins" lol
PugnacAutMortem
06-24-2013, 11:02
Damn it...I was really hoping that I wasn't the only "No" vote...
I have a damn good excuse though. I was so terrified of water that I didn't even like water getting on my face in the shower until I was about 15. Since then I just have never gotten around to it. But I can tell you that I'm putting my kids into swimming lessons as soon as they are old enough.
Chad4000
06-24-2013, 11:04
Damn it...I was really hoping that I wasn't the only "No" vote...
I have a damn good excuse though. I was so terrified of water that I didn't even like water getting on my face in the shower until I was about 15. Since then I just have never gotten around to it. But I can tell you that I'm putting my kids into swimming lessons as soon as they are old enough.
Swim lessons have really help my son.. hes 3 now (just turned on the 19th) and has been in classes for a couple months.. he swam down to the bottom of the pool and got a toy once (like 4 foot area). I guess thats something that they teach them in class... hahaa
JM Ver. 2.0
06-24-2013, 11:10
Damn it...I was really hoping that I wasn't the only "No" vote...
I have a damn good excuse though. I was so terrified of water that I didn't even like water getting on my face in the shower until I was about 15. Since then I just have never gotten around to it. But I can tell you that I'm putting my kids into swimming lessons as soon as they are old enough.
I can't either. You're not alone.
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bigshane
06-24-2013, 11:17
Damn it...I was really hoping that I wasn't the only "No" vote...
I have a damn good excuse though. I was so terrified of water that I didn't even like water getting on my face in the shower until I was about 15. Since then I just have never gotten around to it. But I can tell you that I'm putting my kids into swimming lessons as soon as they are old enough.
Old enough got redefined for me after this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0mUPr68x2U
PugnacAutMortem
06-24-2013, 11:34
Old enough got redefined for me after this:
I understand that's for instructional purposes...but that is a seriously fucked up video at the beginning. I know that kid was never in any danger, but that still looks really fucked up.
But it looks like my boy is old enough now.
Chad4000
06-24-2013, 11:35
I understand that's for instructional purposes...but that is a seriously fucked up video at the beginning. I know that kid was never in any danger, but that still looks really fucked up.
But it looks like my boy is old enough now.
totally agree.. when I first saw that video, I was like gritting my teach for what the ending might be
Snowman78
06-24-2013, 11:39
Yes.
I'm always amazed when I meet people who don't know how to swim. Coming from So. Cal swimming is a right of passage. I've met quite a few people in CO who cannot swim.
My son is starting swim lessons next month. We boat/Jet ski recreationally so swimming is a necessity for our children.
Yep, us to. We go out on the boat alot and wake board. All of my kids (3) had to learn to swim.
http://www.ar-15.co/threads/107941-Sodomy-hazing-leaves-13-year-old-victim-outcast-in-Colorado-town/page6
I graduated HS in 1974, so that was a different era. In HS, the boys were only allowed to swim naked in the school pool. No trunks, no shorts, only butt-ass naked. I don't know that I'd consider it "hazing", but I damn sure considered it strange then, and still do. The reasoning was that "fibers and strings from trunks or shorts will clog the pool filters", which was pure horseshit IMO. What, little curly hairs don't clog filters? And the girls used the same pool (not at the same time) but THEY got to use swimsuits.
I think our friggin' gym coach just liked naked boys. Wet, glistening, naked boys. He damn sure liked to line up the horseplayers along the edge of the pool and swat their wet bare asses with his paddle and knock 'em back in the water. I saw that shit once and figured good behavior in the pool was mandatory. No swats on my fat ass, thank you.
I've always wondered if the naked swimming thing was normal, I sure as hell didn't think so. But my brothers were all a lot older than me and they said it was that way for them too.
Is this why the question?
MileHighOutlaw
06-24-2013, 15:39
Grew up surfing on the west coast. Took a job as a lifeguard at the local pool as a teen. Moved to Hawaii after graduation a worked part time as an open water (beach) lifeguard on the weekends when I didn't have to play Army. Although it did land me a sweet gig as a battalion lifeguard so anytime we did waterborn operations I got to wear shorts and shades and keep my friends from drowning.
hghclsswhitetrsh
06-24-2013, 15:40
Do you even lift bro?
Larry Ashcraft
06-24-2013, 17:16
Our neighbor had a pond that he raised baitfish in. He gathered all the neighborhood kids one day and told us: "You're not allowed in this pond without my permission, but since kids will be kids, you're all learning to swim" then proceeded to give an all day swimming class until every kid in the neighborhood was a swimmer. Later, dad bought a boat that we used for skiing at Meredith and Holbrook, so, yes, I'm a proficient swimmer.
spongejosh
06-24-2013, 19:16
I had to learn to swim before being allowed to go "real" fishing.
Great-Kazoo
06-24-2013, 19:21
Can I yes. am i able to no. if needed i could stay afloat. scouting and .mil was good for a few thing., Like knowing how to turn your pants in to a floatation device etc.
Yes.
I'm always amazed when I meet people who don't know how to swim. Coming from So. Cal swimming is a right of passage. I've met quite a few people in CO who cannot swim.
Wow, I totally forgot about that aspect of spending so much time on the beaches, like Laguna. I was body surfing and knew how to swim at an angle to get out of a rip tide when I was 6 or 7. I think I'm still getting sand out of my ears from being sucked under by waves and bounced on my head and rolled up the beach.[dig]
Grew up in the water. Summers at the pool and lake. Was a lifeguard for a few summers.
We did swim tests the first day at camp. There was always one troop of inner city kids. Non of them would back down, they could all swim. The first kid would jump in the deep end and sink like a rock. We knew we were going after them before they hit the water. Pick 'em off the bottom and bring them to the surface flailing. The rest would look at each other and walk over to the shallow end. Good times.
Double00
06-24-2013, 20:04
Grew up in So.Cal. Always had a pool. Swimming was mandatory!
I grew up in the land of 10,000 lakes so yes.. swimmer, water skier, knee boarder, wind surfer, snorkler, scuba diver and so on.... yes, you can even long board on Lake Superior.
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I grew up in Minnesota. Swimmimng was required from fourth grade through high school.
Between that and spending most of every summer swimming in the local lakes- yes, I can swim.
clublights
06-24-2013, 21:04
I took to water like a fish as a kid... had lessons but advanced thru them so fast I got kick out of the classes since I was fearless and could swim naturally. LOL ( this was at 7 years old)
Mick-Boy
06-25-2013, 01:38
I think swimming is a basic survival skill that every human should know. If you don't know how go down to the local Y and ask about adult classes.
missionxo
06-25-2013, 06:48
Spent my early teens in Hawaii so going out into breaks like Pipeline, Sunset, Sandys, good swimming is a must. I must admit I almost came close to death at Pipeline.
missionxo
06-25-2013, 07:07
most of the surfing I did was body boarding (sandy beach if youve heard of it), so I got real good at swimming with fins. I get in the pool sometimes these days and wonder why im so slow lol.. "oh yeah, not wearing power fins" lol
Nice!! Sandys on a big day was unbeatable!
Grew up on the Lakes of Arizona(believe it or not there are more far more boatable lakes in AZ then there are here) been swimming since before I was a year old, I can probably still get my Lifeguard Certifications today at 44, thought about doing the iron man in Boulder even mainly for the swimming, the only question for the iron man is the running portion, I know I could do it though.
When we moved to Colorado in 86 I took a test to bypass the school districts requirement to have a full year of swimming in order to graduate, the schools swim coach wanted me on the swim team.
Yeah I can swim pretty good.
The Norseman
06-25-2013, 19:11
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I'm Mexican, I got here via the river... of course I can swim!
I know how I just fucking hate it
USAFGopherMike
06-25-2013, 20:36
Like a fish. Was on swim teams through high school.
Same, +drownproofing
I know how I just fucking hate it
Do you sometimes have nightmares about swimming in coffee?
Do you sometimes have nightmares about swimming in coffee?
no but if i wake up in the middle of the night i know who to blame
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