Can You Swim? Do You Like Swimming?

[CMartin]

yep.. plus, i'm absolutely convinced my butt is made of lead.

My body knows as much about buoyancy as a pig does of ice-skates....er...something like that....

 

[Artoo]

This thread has inspired me to start swimming properly again 😀

 

[Dialon]

I love swimming and can swim well depending on circumstance. If i was being chased by a shark in the ocean i would swim extremely well. For fun im just an average swimmer.

 

[Adam]

Try as I did growing up, I never did learn properly. I can float... sorta. But hell, if I go to the deep end of any body of water, I'm done for.

 

[Persephone]

I never had proper swimming lessons, my parents basically put floatees on me at age 5 and tossed me into the three foot end of our pool and my sister taught me to swim! Ever since I was little I have loved to swim 🙂 ocean or pool! I live in the water <3!

 

[ParanoidChant]

Having nearly drowned twice as a kid and possessing almost no body fat, I'm afraid that.
I.
suck.
at.
swimming.

Oh, I've tried to rectify this. During high school I took a swimming class as an elective. It was pretty much just me and a couple of special ed kids attempting desperately to not to drown.. It was even better cause there were these big bay window where all the kids who took normal gym classes could walk by and watch me fail at treading water, causing my friends to provide me with much grief-giving.

Oh, and I still can't swim well.

 

[venray]

Hell no.

Never learned to swim and I never will. Plus, I tend to give pools a wide berth.

I can swim as far as keeping myself alive in water. I can't do any specific strokes, or swim with any kind of discipline. I just exist in the water and don't drown <3

I can't swim for shit... When I doubt, I just roll over and float. 😀

^ All of this! ^

I love the water but I do not love being IN it...

 

[Ticklish9's]

Not even a little!


Well, I suppose I can swim down... :lol: I absolutely hate the water. Hate it.

 

[Lamashtu]

My mother made me take swimming lessons when I was little. But I was a stubborn child and refused to learn, I hated being taught by other people. I later taught myself. I love the water. Eventually got my scuba divers license. But right now I don't feel comfortable in a bathing suit, so it'll be awhile before I go swimming again.

 

[baldadonis]

My first time swimming this year this weekend has shown that while I can still swim decently enough, I lack the ability to stay in a straight line. When I tried doing some laps in the pool I was all over the place. My hands kept hitting those darn things that divide the lanes. Need some work. Guess I'll have to hit the pool all summer to correct this.

 

[silversurf828]

swimming is awesome.

I love swimming. It was one of the only sports i was good at as a kid. I'm really glad my mom made me join the swim team cause i ended up getting a job as a lifeguard. And now i get paid to tan.

Any you can always improve your stroke in the pool it just takes time. Keep working bella, its great exercise.

 

[Ghris]

Love going swimming.

Need to get some practice in, though.. haven't been for a while. Almost a year, actually. And before that, not for many many years.

However - our local pool is epic, it has a steam room!

 

[BlackestLily]

I know how to swim and used to love it. I still enjoy it, but it's sorta one of those activities you have to take your glasses off for, and the world isn't ever as enjoyable for me when I can't see what I'm doing. Prescription goggles perhaps...?

 

[Rorschach Blues]

I know how to swim and used to love it. I still enjoy it, but it's sorta one of those activities you have to take your glasses off for, and the world isn't ever as enjoyable for me when I can't see what I'm doing. Prescription goggles perhaps...?

I thought cats couldn't swim and hated water... ok... either that's a lie or you're not actually the cat-goddess!

 

[BlackestLily]

I'm one of those cats that people watch on youtube in amazement as someone throws them into a pool and they swim to the other side. Like magic!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U0dSxVCiKc

 

[Rorschach Blues]

My god... you're like... wonder cat?

 

[BlackestLily]

My god... you're like... wonder cat?

Exactly.

On a side note to keep the thread on topic I took swimming lessons for years, so for a while I was fairly decent at a lot of the strokes and also took resuscitation training. For all the tests I had to go through I would say I qualified to be a lifeguard, but a lot of the knowledge is lost to me now.

 

[falcon]

being an aquarius, i love the water and i'm a certified scuba diver (coming up on 20 years this july!!) but i don't swim as much as i'd like. mostly because i'm really self concious about my body. my wife, on the other hand, loves swimming more than i do (by like 100 times!) so we go to the community center pool a lot during the summer. that's actually where i taught her to snorkel a few eyars back. 🙂

 

[CD216]

I cannot swim too terribly well on the grounds that I taught myself how to when I was little. As it turns out, I was apparently a shitty teacher and my swimming abilities are pretty sub-par. That aside, I do like to swim because its relaxing on a hot day, plays in nicely with my love for relaxing on a beach with my friends during the summer, my very Irish skin aside, and its great for toning the body.

-Chris

 

[CurtWild]

i can swim pretty well and i love it, but if someone even says the "W" word, i get an ear infection.

i suppose it's a love/hate thing now that i think about it...

 

[-Hari-]

I love swimming, but in my early years I started getting migrains from the stuff they put in the water at swimming pools and my eyes would go puffy.

I only get to swim when im at the sea side 🙁