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

[mickybeans]

i used to always go to the lakes with my family and when i was a little younger, i would go with my cousins and we'd sneak into the apartment pools to swim. you would THINK that i'd know how to swim but i just always stood there and pretended to float! :P i still dont know how to swim!

[_1WishAway]

I honestly didn't know how to swim until I was twelve.

Back in 5th grade, we would be put into our gym classes according to how well we swam, and of course... I was in the lowest - it was horrible, kids would make fun of my classmates and I. Definitely not a highlight.

[tofuburger]

i learned how to swim by myself when i was...11? 12???...yeah..oh but before that...i remember hanging out with my older cousin who coulda been around 16 at the time..and her and her friends were all at the pool...and first this one guy threw her into the pool...while she was on the bench..and then one of them pushed me into the pool..and i was only like...9 or 10 then...and they pushed me into the deep end...and then yeah...all that matters is that i came back up..lol..i'm still scared of the water though...i've had umm..other incidents...

[the_crox]

I can't swim for crap.

[*stephinika*]

i know how! didn't learn until grade 7 or so though cause i hated (and still do hate) putting my head underwater...i don't know exactly why but yeah.

[dani41790]

i learned how to swim wen i was 6. its not that hard. just be confident

[sweetxsimplicity]

I HATE HATE HATE swimming, I've been taking swimming classes for years and I still can't swim very well.

[*salcha*]

haha yeah! swimming is one of my best sport, i've been doing it for as long as i could remember. the water is my friend (:

[silver-rain]

Well I kinda knew how to swim, but then I still had to take Swim Gym at my high school sophomore year. But yeah, I know how to swim

[Just_Dream]

... I've been trying to elarn how to swim for a long long time.. but it's too difficult lol. I'm a slow learner and bleh.. my boyfriend is actually somewhat swimming.. And it only took him a short while to learn how to at least float.. I can't even float :[

[laur3nw]

Yeah, I can swim...my dad taught me when I was around 9. I wore those water muscles and slowly started swimming without them. Can't think of any incidents right now...I'm sure I had some though.
I didn't know schools p.e. classes had swimming...my school doesn't.

[Spud]

I went to state in swimming. So I guess you could say I can swim.


; )

[sandy_lumpy_shor...]

like.. i took 23425 different swimming classes

wow thats quite a few! yeah i've had soo many swimming classes, but the weird thingk is that i've almost drown twice! and i love swimming

[*AngelicEyz00*]

I learned when I was 2.

[Zer_Wil_De_Mach]

when i was still super young like 1-2 years old swimming with my dad

[demolished]

i never swim but i'm not afraid of waters .. hopefully my brother wil teach me during the summer ..

[angel-roh]

I started to learn how to swim when I was in 2nd grade. When I was in 1st grade, I was afraid of the water because I watched lots of shark attack movies and also scary creatures living in the bottom of the ocean. So yeah I was very afraid of going inside the swimming pool even though it wasn't the ocean, but still it's a water!!! Big tank water! Hehe... anyways I don't even know how to float. After my 2nd year of my elementary school. I got the hang of it, then I started to love swimming a lot. But in my half year of my 2nd grade, I got into an accident. But my swimming teacher didn't see me. She was busy teaching the other student's on rules of our school swimming while I was practicing how to swim. She was mad because I was scared to go to the deep water and that I was way behind at stuff. Yes I was way behind because I was afraid of the water. Anyways you know those board where you hold into it and you paddle your feets around the water -- yeah. I accidentally went to the deep water. I didn't know how to control myself. I was going bit crazy because I was very scared. Then I accidentally let go off my board and I went down... I drank some of the water ehhh. I think I was in the water for more than 5 minutes. Because while I was paddling, I saw the clock. It was around something _:45am... so yeah... and I came back up. I saw the clock, it was something like _:00pm... so yeah... somewhere around the 00's heh. It was terrible, but I'm glad that I got saved. So now I'm still afraid to go to the water now. Just thinking of it makes me very nervous and scared. Well actually I'm not scared of the water. Just don't want to because I was thinking I might get another accident and no one will save me especially the lifeguards because you know sometimes the teenage guys are busy looking at "hot girls" yeah...

[Spirited Away]

I took lessons, almost drowned at the beach when I was 5, was thrown into a lake, took some more lessons.... one would think I can swim by now, but nooOOOooooOOo.

[misoshiru]

i learned how to swim when i was 2.

[whomps]

My parents taught me how to swim when I was about 8 or 9, when we first moved into our house with a pool.

[zbrittanyz]

I've been swimming since I was around 2. I love swimming. I took classes until I was about 9 and then was on the swim team for a little bit, but I hate competition swimming.

[runforfun529]

I used to swim, but I took better to other sports, which is kind of funny because now my family owns a swimming workout place. lol

[*Weird addiction*]

i cant swim at all, water scares me

[iheartsimba]

i've swam my whole life...since i was old enough to be about to get in the water
so i don't think i was ever scared at any point to learn to swim

[Ington]

I couldn't swim when i was young but then I almost drowned once in a pool. For some reason i knew how to swim after that.

[5ayuri]

i always wanted to go to swimming classes but never have i dont really know how to swim
just in the pool but not all the way down its to deep and i cant float XD

[BOAmusics]

ever since i was a kkid, i don't see why people are afraid of water or can't swim, just go in it and have fun =P

[kokosofly]

I do.. I used to take lessons... I love being in the water. I like diving, too. (Not any fancy, high-dive boards, though)

[azn_r4pf4n]

i hate swimming. i know the basics of swimming, but i remember i got a cramp on my leg once when i was swimming b/c i was hecka nervous.

[toodlepops.]

i took swimming lessons a few years back. then i quit.
i can just swim the easy ones.

[gelionie]

Oh, I learnt swimming since I was a teeny weeny toodler. I had these mini kickboards tied to my waist, and each time the instructor would remove one kickboard until I learnt to swim by myself.