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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...
How else did I get here?
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Originally Posted by ChunkyMonkey
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Originally Posted by ChunkyMonkey
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.
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.
Well be baffled now, sir.......Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
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Like a fish. Was on swim teams through high school.
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 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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
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My Dad tried to hold us under with a stick. Still trying to figure out if he was actually teaching us to swim.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madeinhb
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!
better than most, ran a few triathlons when i was younger, last one required a two mile ocean swim
Yes. Many a summer spent at local pool.
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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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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.
ROFLMAO. Well played.Quote:
Originally Posted by HBARleatherneck
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.
But now you are much more buoyant!Quote:
Originally Posted by TFOGGER
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by DEAGLER
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.
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
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.
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Originally Posted by kawiracer14
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
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... hahaaQuote:
Originally Posted by PugnacAutMortem
I can't either. You're not alone.Quote:
Originally Posted by PugnacAutMortem
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Old enough got redefined for me after this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0mUPr68x2UQuote:
Originally Posted by PugnacAutMortem
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by zip
But it looks like my boy is old enough now.
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Originally Posted by PugnacAutMortem
totally agree.. when I first saw that video, I was like gritting my teach for what the ending might be
Yep, us to. We go out on the boat alot and wake board. All of my kids (3) had to learn to swim.Quote:
Originally Posted by BigDee