swimming Options

[sheepy]

sorry if theres a topic like this already, but..
how many of you know how to swim?

like.. i took 23425 different swimming classes but i always quit cus i'm scared of water. and like the school i'm gonna go to, we need to know how to swim. and i don't want to fail the test, so i'm gonna teach myself to swim over the summer. [no way is anyone making me dive]

so how hard was it for you guys to learn how to swim? if you do..

any swimming icidents? i had a few.

[babytt]

I learned to swim when I was 9 or 10, can't quite remember. My older cousins taught me the basic technique to swim. So every day of the summer when I was 9 or 10, I went to the local park's swimming pool to practice. The more practice you do, the better you'll get at swimming.

[Mistrunner]

I can't swim, either. Holding my head under water with eyes shut tightly and nose plugged is the best I can do. :/

[with_time_it_fad...]

i can swim

[inlonelinessidie]

I learned to swim when I was like 5. They gave mandatory classes at my school, and I remember every Thursday we were taught how to swim. It wasn't hard, it was actually a lot of fun.

[Nicolatofu]

It was quite easy for me to learn how to swim. My brother used to take me to the pool every day and teach me how.

[racoons > you]

i love swimming... i swim a mile every wednesday

[Gypsy Eyes]

I love swimming! I was on the empire state team for awhile before i quit. Good lucK! Just start with simple things like freestyle and backstroke and work your way up!

[tchotchke]

I can't swim.

I have a story:
I went swimming one day in grade four at a friend's house.. but I stayed on the shallow side of course. And.. I don't know what happened but I slipped into the deep side, and obviously I was drowning. I was soo panicked.. I like.. splashed a lot and.. I even waved my arms in the air! The adult there didn't come to save me though, everyone thought I was having fun and waving to people as in "Hi!"... but no.. I was drowning. Finally I was saved when I threw up into the nice and clean pool.

[snak3y3z1001]

I'm goin to start taking swimming classes during the summer. I tried to learn how to swim once and i almost killed myself >.< Only thing i can do is stay afloat and the doggie paddle

[EmmalieV]

I do...


not know how to swim.

[njgurl412]

i know how to swim.. i took classes when i was in 2nd grade to when i was in 7th grade.. i was getting really good but then i stopped. I could have been a swimming pro if i didn't stop the classes.

[BlissfulIgnoranc...]

hmm i learned how to swim in atlantic city when i was in the pool at the Trump and the floor on the pool was mad slippery so i couldnt jus tip toe around the pool like i usually did so i asked my brother to teach me and he told me to hold onto the railing and try to float so i did and then he told me to let go ..so i did..and i damn near drowned..lol..but i got the hang of it..i think i was like 8 or 9..good times. good times

[Teesa]

I learned how to swim at a late age and I took lessons for a long time, I think 4 years. I ended when I was learning how to dive, and that included one of my worst incidents which was when I did a bellyflop and that hurt like a mother.

[shortiiex]

i swimed my whole life, but it was last year when i finally got it, but i am not so good, like i can't do the back and forth thing w/o drowning

[racoons > you]

i swimed my whole life, but it was last year when i finally got it, but i am not so good, like i can't do the back and forth thing w/o drowning

what, lane turns? me neither, i always go to deep in the shallows and hit my head on the bottom of the pool/get waterin my nose/ die

[miss barnes]

i never learned how. (f**king typical black ass parents never did either)
well, my freshman year EVERY freshman had to take swimming whether you could swim or not. everyone in my class could except the black people. its really quite sad. we dont have anyone in our family to teach us so we had to teach ourselves. its been over a year and i know that i'm ok at swimming now.

my bad experience is 2 summers ago i had told some of my friends that i could swim so we went to the lake in our neighborhood and to swim in the deeper water you have to take a test then they write your name and birthday down so you wont have to take it everytime you come. well, i really couldnt swim and i didnt wanna take the test so i said i was my other friend (who wasnt there) and gave them her birthday to get my pass. i went in the water and somehow made it to the slide out the middle of the water. when i got there, it was scared to go down the slide so i tried to swim back and almost drowned. i was all going under the water until the lifeguard came. she took the pass and said i could onyl go in the kiddie area...my friends joned' on me so hard about that. they were laughing....

sadness

[inthemudhole]

I've been swimming since I was about 3 or 4.
I took lessons, too, from about 1st grade to 4th grade.

So..yep.
I do, in fact, know how to swim.

[*jooleeah*]

I don't really know how to swim. I mean, I do....but I taught myself so i'm not great at it. I used to like swimming but now I just don't go swimming anymore....after that ear infection, I became scared of jumping in and going underwater ><;;

[SMUSHiENESS]

I partialy know how to swim.. i never really completed the lessons. so yeah. half and half. I`ll sink

[jennyjenny]

Nope, I don't know how to swim.
A lot of my friends are all like, :gasp:, but whatever.

I tried learning when I was little, but it didn't work.
I never go after the 4 feet mark.
Actually, I haven't gone swimming in like, ever, haha.

[heyyfrankie]

i know how to swim!
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and whenever i was like 8, , i was playing in our pool with my sister and we had a giant float that was in the shape of a bed. (don't ask) i swam under the water and came up but the float was on top of me! i was scared! i couldn't get to the top of the surface because of the suction(sp?) i was so scared! but i am better now!

[parallel]

I used to be afraid of water..but in the 5th grade I decided to take swimming lessons because just about all of my friends knew how to swim...so I learned..a little..got over my fear...but I don't enjoy swimming one bit..

[pAtRiCk_sTar]

i swimming....yeah i learned when i was 7 or so. i barely learned how to swim in the deep like 2 years ago though hehe. when you first start, it's a bit scary but if you spend a lot of time in the water, you get used to it

[thait3n]

I can float, and thats all that matters