Poll: Can you swim?

[VaudevillianVeteran]

I learned when i was 4 or 5 when I was abroad. Dad used the whole 'you'll either sink or swim' tactic and threw me in salt water. Learned pretty quickly.
I still swim a lot nowadays but not as much as I used to.

 

[neoontime]

Yes, pretty slow but good enough.

 

[yoyo13rom]

yes, I have a pool so I must. I'm planning a bit of a pool party for tomorrow. If you want to come, come here

Spoiler

Dam it! If I could have spared the expense of plain ticket from Europe, I would have come.
But, how deep is the pool, because it doesn't seem too deep.

In Denmark you learn how to swim in school

That's just one of the many reasons kids here want to do live in Denmark.

Yes. I even have a license for lifeguard... somewhere... hidden...

OKAY FINE I LOST IT SOMEWHERE!! ARE YOU HAPPY?! Started learning when I was 5 or 6, got license by the time I was 10. Despite being slightly overweight and with asthma.

Aaaa, as not so skilled swimmer(just curious, I know I won't be saving anyone), what is the technique of saving someone(I'm referring to everything before the CPR procedures)?

I can swim well enough that i won't die... But I won't be crossing the channel any time soon

Everyone should be able to swim anyway, and if you can't, go out and learn.

That's what my mom always said. We'll more like:"there will come a time when good looks won't save you. Just look at me, I'm a not that attractive anymore and the lifeguards won't even notice me. So that's why you should learn how to swim(to save me of course)". It's her(our) running joke.

 

[Alex The Rat]

I'm the 5 year old who was out-swimming you. Metaphorically anyway. But yes, I grew up near a huge lake and I've been swimming absolutely as long as I can remember. I even took some lifeguard training, although I never wanted a job where I'd need it.

Rats love water

 

[Abbyrose07]

I can swim very well I learned at a young age because my parents had an above ground pool. I had to save my friend from almost drowning at my cousins pool, when my brother pushed her off of a raft in the deep end lol.

 

[Thisbedutch]

Both me and my sister were forced to have lessons from a young age because our mother can't swim and she wanted us to be able to. I was on a swimming team but was too laid-back to really take competition seriously, so I guess I'm a good swimmer, just lazy.

 

[yoyo13rom]

Nope, and it stops me from learning to drive too...what if I crashed into a lake?

(Somehow)Use the air-bag to float to safety.
And don't worry, usually people die of the impact of the car crash rather than drowning
So I would say, go for it. Learn how to swim and drive. I mean how do you expect to survive the zombie apocalypse, without these essential skills?

 

[tzimize]

swimming lessons when I was young. I used to love diving to the bottom of the pool and sit on the bottom watching everyone (no not in that way).

 

[Chase Yojimbo]

i can swim AND float, how about that! the only good thing being fat... /cry

 

[micky]

my brother shoved me in the deep end thats how i learned to swim

 

[Abedeus]

Aaaa, as not so skilled swimmer(just curious, I know I won't be saving anyone), what is the technique of saving someone(I'm referring to everything before the CPR procedures)?

Hell if I remember. It was 7 years ago, I remember nothing of that "training".

 

[Fidelias]

I used to only barely be able to swim, then when I was like 16 I got lessons and now I'm pretty good. Not good enough to win races but I can swim for a while before I tire out.

 

[Amberella]

I can't even remember. But I'm one heck of a good swimmer. Just not fond of swimming though. xD

 

[Dauntlessidiot]

My problem with swimming is that I can do the movements like an athlete, but I just cannot float... problem is, With me being so light, I don't displace enough water, so I hit the water and carry on going down...

 

[PrimoThePro]

Hahaha, what does "Other" mean?!

 

[cheese_wizington]

I've had about 3 years of swimming lessons, and I swam Swim Team for four years.

 

[JokerCrowe]

I went to "Swimming School" when I was seven, and then I started training my technique. I swam for about ten years. And now I'm a swimming instructor for 4-7 year-olds. So the answer is "no".

 

[Tarmon'gaidin]

This is actually one of the very few things I'm really good at, I learned how to swim at about age 4 and since then I've always done it. I became a lifeguard a couple of years back and have been a swimminginstructer for a year now.

 

[duckfi8]

i've been swimming since I was 4.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I haven't been swimming in absolutely ages...
I was taught on holiday. Well, more like they threw me in the pool and said, "swim to me Emily, swim to me!" then I was taught properly in year 5.
I'm okay at it, I usually swim near the edge at the deep end though.