Can you swim?

Mr.GtF · Post by **Mr.GtF** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:33 pm

When I was really young I apparently told my Mum about a dream I had where I was swimming around in mid-air about my bedroom/ I then refused to do any 'conventional' swimming for ages after because it wasn't as cool or something.

I have since learnt to swim and indeed do find it to be a wholesome and rewarding activity.

Sigh.

*pretends to float away into the horizon*

Tetsuo75 · Post by **Tetsuo75** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:58 pm

I started swimming when I was three and have never ever been afraid of the water... even though I was caught in a rip current once *looked to the horizon and beach looked really, really tiny....*

Garneta · Post by **Garneta** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:13 pm

Anyway, haven't read the rest of the thread...just gonna answer anyway...

I thought that swimming was just an instinct. I've always been able to, after all...but Jim told me awhile back that if you learn it when you're young it's an instinct, and you don't forget it, otherwise it's not, and you have to relearn, or something...I think.

NakedElf · Post by **NakedElf** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:22 pm

My husband finds it pretty odd that I can actually swim. Then again, he claims that it's weird that I can generally walk without somehow injuring myself. :P It's because I don't like swimming, which I generally dislike because I don't like being freezing cold, which happens to me rather quickly in a pool. And yet somehow I managed to do swim team and synchro and life guard training as a kid...

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 8:35 pm

I can swim. I'm not great at it, but I can do the backstroke for a long time, and am pretty good swimming underwater. I'm not so hot with the normal forward stroke thing.

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 12:28 am

I'm no olympic athlete or anything, but yeah I can swim.

NakedElf · Post by **NakedElf** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:34 am

rkolter wrote:I can swim. I'm not great at it, but I can do the backstroke for a long time, and am pretty good swimming underwater. I'm not so hot with the normal forward stroke thing.

Freestyle, I assume.

I think freestyle tends to be badly taught. It's sort of assumed that the idea is to just point your body at the other end of the pool and then make your arms go in circles... But posture is actually important.

Sput · Post by **Sput** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:40 am

I've fallen into white water rapids. That's fun! I escaped with a huge cut on my thigh. It is an awesome battlescar.

I've also almost gotten tugged away by the undertow.

That is significantly less fun.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 4:17 am

I took swimming lessons as a kid, but these days, I don't go to the pool/beach very often.

BrownEyedCat wrote:Pools are ideal, and my only problem with the various lakes, creeks, and ocean in the area are slimy things...

Agh, yes. I hate the feeling of stepping into slimy gook while wading around at the beach. I'm shuddering as I type this.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 7:27 am

I often dreamed of swimming in mid air too. I used to wake up dissapointed because the feel was really cool.

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 11:01 am

Yep yep! I love swimming, although it's much more fun with other people. I prefer to play around in the pool rather than doing laps, but I do do them for exercise. As a kid I always failed swimming classes- not because I couldn't swim, but because I had trouble staying in my lane...I couldn't follow the line on the bottom of the pool. I sort of blame the instructor for that, though, as she never worked on it with me.

Prettysenshi · Post by **Prettysenshi** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 11:08 am

I sure as hell can't swim. Can't even float. Never been in water deeper than 5 feet.

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 11:19 am

sure, kinda. real good at the doggie paddle. during elementary school I kept getting shoved into the kindergarten/beginners class because I was just not coordinated enough to do that stoke-breath-stroke-breathe out under water-thing, and to this day I'm no good at specific techniques except the breaststroke. but I think that if I fell out of a boat in a small/regular sized lake, I would be able to struggle ashore.

Nanda · Post by **Nanda** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 1:30 pm

I'm a very good swimmer.

[AlmightyPyro] · Post by **[AlmightyPyro]** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 1:35 pm

I love swimming. I'm fairly good at it, but I can't do the whole speedy stroke stuff. I'm one kick ass doggy paddler. xD. I love to swim under water, I'd live there if I could breath water.

Nyke · Post by **Nyke** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 1:50 pm

"I only know how to do it doggy style!"

Just kidding. I can swim enough to save my ass, but not much better.

Prettydragoon · Post by **Prettydragoon** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:19 am

I like swimming. But I don't like getting water in my eyes. Fortunately I have a pair of goggles that actually do something.

Pimpette · Post by **Pimpette** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:15 am

I can swim if I have to (I have a vague memory of some sort of swimming lessons from childhood) but for the most part I prefer to just splash around in shallow areas.
Anything deeper requires a pool noodle or equivalent that I can cling to.

I love beaches though. Cause I can build sandcastles.

Noise Monkey · Post by **Noise Monkey** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:35 am

I like swimming, I'm pretty good at if for being non-athletic, but I'm afraid of water.

Well...water that's murky enough that I can't see if I'm going to bump into a corpse or a carnivorous fish, at least.

Especially the corpse.

Nervous Spy · Post by **Nervous Spy** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:52 am

Killbert-Robby wrote:Oh but we do have mountains :

http://www.wasteservmalta.com/images/MA ... Lframe.jpg

Maghtab, where all the country's waste goes to die. Yes, thats all trash.

Woah, that almost looks worse than my room!

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Can you swim?

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And doggy style is fun too.