Poll: Can you swim?

[Hashime]

I started lessons earlier than I can remember, I'm getting my scuba license this summer.

 

[fat american]

My mom took me to the local pool when I was just 3. Our old house had river side property on the Missouri which is extremely deadly where I live, I don't know about other places. She kept taking me until I was in the seventh grade. I've had multiple comments on how strong of a swimmer I am. I was on the city's swim team but I wasn't very fast so I decided to quit.

 

[Plinglebob]

I've been teaching since I was a baby (the local pool used to have a photo they took when I was 1 as part of their publicity). I've also been a lifeguard since I was 14 and a teacher since I wsa 16. I've always loved swimming. Being heavy, I was crap at most sports, but I always had the endurance for simming with a record of 3000meters non stop.

 

[AWAR]

I can float.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I live in Florida, and the Gulf of Mexico is only about an hour drive from my house. Every year for as long as i can remember, my family has gone to the beach for three days to a week in the Summer. I can't really remember a time when I couldn't swim, although if I had to guess the age where I learned, I'd say 3. I do remember that it was my Dad who taught me how, though. I never joined a swim team, but I go skin diving whenever I get the chance, so oddly enough, I'm better at swimming underwater than I am above.

I took swimming lessons when I was a kid, but I only learned how to do the crawl and the doggie paddle. Most of my swimming is done in pools or lakes and I usually have no endurance, so when I went swimming in the ocean during a vacation I was amazed how much easier it was to stay afloat (because for some odd reason I sink in freshwater).

Ah, the wonders of salt water; The salt makes you more buoyant. If you ever get a chance to swim in the (can't remember if it's the dead sea or the red sea), try it. I hear that it's so salty that it's impossible for a human being to sink in it.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

Yes, and I'm a stronger swimmer than most of my friends. I used to have lessons at school and apparently my Dad and Grandad are (and were) very good swimmers.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Yeah, I can swim. Not very good or anything, I'm not sportsman, but when I fall in the water I can get to shore. That's enough for me. I do like swimming. Kind of relaxing.

 

[Sougo]

I can paddle around enough in a pool.

Toss me into a sea (or anyplace where the water isn't stagnant) and I'll sink like a tombstone.

 

[asinann]

I know how to swim, but my body is too dense to even float (between low fat content and metals in my body.) Before I had the parts added I was good enough to save my life, but other than that, not so good.

 

[Sougo]

Ah, the wonders of salt water; The salt makes you more buoyant. If you ever get a chance to swim in the (can't remember if it's the dead sea or the red sea), try it. I hear that it's so salty that it's impossible for a human being to sink in it.

I believe its also too salty to swim. Anybody taking a few dips in that sea is gonna get dehydrated quickly. Not to mention if you swallow any of that water and you'll be too busy gagging.
Oh and its the dead sea.

 

[FISHFINGERS]

Yeah I used to be a very strong swimmer. Not as strong as my older brother (who swam in county championships).

I always enjoyed school swimming lessons. Once I had a 50m freestyle race with the most athletic guy there (bear in mind that I was and still am slightly overweight). The kids watching said that he kept up with me for the first 1/4 of the length of the 25m pool.

I just couldn't point out that is when I probably started kicking (I think I had embarrassed him enough).

 

[Billion Backs]

Swimming is easy. It's been one of my favorite physical activities to do since childhood, although I haven't really had a chance to do it too often - only a couple of times a week, at most.

So, yeah, I can swim ad-aqua-tely although in the past 2 years I didn't get a chance to practice at all. I'm a pretty good diver, too, when it comes to being underwater for a long time. I love water...

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Yes.
I pretty much flail for motion, but yes, I can swim.

 

[Griff]

I'm a lifeguard so I hope I'm a good swimmer

 

[koriantor]

I can swim for a little bit, but I don't last very long. Yes I can swim, but I don't count on it very often.

 

[Socius]

as we do learn in in primary school, most Norwegians swim!
We also learn to wreastle polar bears to survive in middle school!
my favourite class however is Iglo building.
of course they are just subclasses for the "polar survival class" or in Norwegian:
"Mordi e mann"

 

[Mr Cwtchy]

I could, last time I went.

Of course that was a long time ago, and I'm not likely to ever go swimming again due to severe skin grossness.

 

[Summerstorm]

Well, i am a fat, lazy man... but of course i can swim. Got the bronze grade when i was 10 or so, but swam earlier of course, just with no grading. (It's is beginner - bronze - silver - gold) But i can't open my eyes under water (VERY sensitive eyes), so i couldn't fulfill requirement for gold i think. I had to fetch underwater for bronze and had to do it by memory and intuition *g*.

But yeah.. nowadays i more float than swim... but hell, i don't NEED to outswim a shark... or so i want to believe.

 

[Jonluw]

I can swim pretty decent. Well, I don't have anything to compare to, but I can swim a 1000 metres or further without trouble, as long as I don't try to swim unnecessarily fast.
My father taught me to swim around the age of 6 or 7, though my parents had been taking me to baby-swimming before that.
The method my father used for teaching me to swim was simply helping me with some basics and then saying "If you can get across the pool you can go to the toy store and get anything you want." That, coincidentally is also the story of how I came in possession of my first video game system: A gameboy advance that I use to this day.

as we do learn in in primary school, most Norwegians swim!
We also learn to wreastle polar bears to survive in middle school!
my favourite class however is Iglo building.
of course they are just subclasses for the "polar survival class" or in Norwegian:
"Mordi e mann"

Also, I guess, if my father hadn't taught me to swim, elementary school would.
How would we manage without Mordi e mann?

 

[Tonimata]

I've been swimming since I was 2, and when weather is suitable, I swim for an hour every day...

So that I can cross the English channel! (Cookie for reference!)