Can you swim?

fickerson · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:35 pm

red Wrote:

i can swim, but not terribly well. when i did a triathlon two summers back, i backstroked for the swimming part. my parents taught me to swim when i was very young, but i'm a little rusty these days.

right on.

i swam competitively for 11 years, stopped when i went to college. i still love it and get in the water pretty frequently for triathlon training.

discostu · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:36 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

I can swim well but dont particularly enjoy it much anymore. We took swimming lessons at like age four. Lotsa pools and lakes to fall in around here.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

what was amazing to me is when i lived in nc, so many people could not swim. i dont know anyone here who can't - there is a lot of water here so you better know how.

d · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:40 pm

I know a 36 year old guy that never learned how to swim. It amazes me that he can't snorkel or do other water activities when he and his wife go on vacation.

I thought swimming lessons were a given for most folks... I took them when I was 5-6. I can't swim competitively or super fast, but I can swim well enough to get where I need to go, or tread water.

Kabob · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:51 pm

I can. But it ain't pretty. And I ain't happy about it.

Dusty Chalk · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:05 pm

I can swim with clothes on (or at least, used to be able to -- went through survival-oriented and lifeguard-oriented-type swimming classes), but I can't do any of the fancy strokes.

Charli · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:10 pm

dnorwood Wrote:

II thought swimming lessons were a given for most folks... I took them when I was 5-6. I can't swim competitively or super fast, but I can swim well enough to get where I need to go, or tread water.

Yeah, see I same here. All of the above in fact. It's a must in my family, especially since my parents were big swimmers and vacationers to beaches.

My son finally figured it out pretty well last summer. He was struggling for a while but I kept taking him down to the pool a couple times a week and suddenly he just got it. I still want him to try lessons again.

And yeah, I know some people who don't know how and it always catches me by surprise since I too thought it was a given growing up that everyone learned how.

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:23 pm

"Breast stroke" Teeheehee.

I can't do any fancy techniques or anything but I can go in water deeper than myself and enjoy myself. I never made it past orange because I was terrified to put my head under the water.

I am the king of treading water, though.

Promethium · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:40 pm

I can swim. I grew up across the street from a public pool. I used to hate the water due to tubes in my ears that I wasn't supposed to get wet. Once I got them out and got accustomed to getting my head wet, I went swimming every day during the summer until I was probably 14 or 15. If I wouldn't have been such a good wrestler, I would have joined the swim team.

shiv · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:46 pm

Yes, and can do it pretty well though I haven't been swimming in quite awhile.

Totally Wired · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:03 pm

I have swim practice at 5.

andyfest · **Posted:** Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:06 pm

I've taken up swimming on my lunch breaks (when I can). I get a great work out in less than an hour, can get it over with so I don't have to go in the evening, and don't come back to work sweaty.

Kid Dynamite · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 4:25 pm **Posts:** 169

I can swim pretty well, but I never did it competitively so I tire after about 3 laps.

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