Poll: Can you swim?

[R4ptur3]

i can swim quite easily. i dont know how far i could swim before i drown though. i guess i could go and find out...

 

[VicunaBlue]

I'm decent. I could swim a 50 in 29 at my peak, but usually got stuck with the 200.

 

[Wadders]

Barely.

I just about learned to propel myself in school swimming lessons, but have hardly been swimming at all since, so I may have forgotten how to. If it is possible to forget how to swim...

'Spose I'd better get practicing if I wana join the Army after Uni

 

[Commissar Sae]

I can swim if need be, I just don't like to. Near drowning experience as a kid left a permanent mark apparently.

 

[child of lileth]

Nope. Never learned how. People tried to drown me when I tried to learn as a kid... twice (one of them was even my own dad). No thank you. Me and large things of water like to keep our space.

 

[Zacharine]

Yes. I learned to swim when I was about 4. I swam my first full kilometer without stopping or resting when I was 7.

I've never been a specially fast swimmer though.

 

[Blue Musician]

No, there's practically no swimming pools where I live and we do not live near the sea. So nope.

 

[StBishop]

I took swimming lessons at the YMCA when I was a kid. There were seven levels overall (Polliwog, Guppy, Minnow, Fish, Flying Fish, Shark and Porpoise). I passed everything up to and including Flying Fish.

This seems like a foolish ranking system for children, why would you want to stop being a shark to become a porpoise?

Sure can. Being able to swim is kinda a prerequisite to survival in Australia...

This basically. We also require a certificate of wildlife fighting.

We also need to be able to play various aboriginal musical instruments (Didgeridoo included) and have a Kangaroo riding licence. We also chuck shrimp on the 'Barbie'.

 

[Skarvig]

I think I'm a pretty good swimmer. I love swimming and I think I can last longer in the water than most people.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

I swam a lot as a child - it was pretty much the only exercise I was willing to do (or could do, thanks to my asthma...)

Now I'm a certified lifeguard!

 

[NeutralDrow]

Absolutely. I like to think I'm pretty good at it, too. Even swam competitively, club and high school varsity (firmly middle-of-the-pack in speed and skill, but still).

 

[katsabas]

I wasn't an adept swimmer. Went to a school when 12. Now, I have gotten quite good at it. Being Greek, one has to be a good swimmer.

 

[stikku]

I live in a 10km X 5 km island, believe me i know how to swim

 

[DustyDrB]

Yea. I love swimming. I lived on a lake growing up and had a jet-ski. I would park the jet-ski far off of a sandbar and just swim back and forth. Now I pretty much live on the ocean so the fun continues.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

I can swim fairly well, but if someone is drowning, they are on their own.

 

[tehweave]

For a bit when I was 7 I was afraid to go underwater. My cousin Chris helped me get over this fear (not by pushing me underwater) and after that I started taking summer classes at a gym where we would get together and swim (and do other sports).

 

[TehCookie]

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).

 

[mr.aravaro]

I can swim but for some reason I just cant put my head under the water.

 

[Tharwen]

I can swim. I had those horrible lessons where you're told to go up and down a pool by a middle-aged instructor who never actually does any herself.

I've never been particularly good at it, and I have a strong phobia of water that I can't see the bottom of. Looking down and knowing that there are millions of creatures below me that I just can't see is terrifying. I also believe I'm fairly agoraphobic, which is similar.

 

[Dapsen]

I learned to swim when is was 7 years old.

I don't know exactly how good I am now, but 3 years ago I could swim half a mile in one stretch.
On second thought, I can probably do a lot better now. I was very fat.