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Swimming Poll

Can you swim?


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I could swim well enough that I wouldn't drown if someone threw me in a deep body of water, but that's about it, so I voted "no". I don't have a clue about the different types of strokes, I just wing it. We had swimming lessons at school but I just skived off of them to get high.
 
Yep, I can swim very well. Don't even recall exactly when I learned, but I was very young.
I was around 6 or so. My brothers and sister took me out in the middle of Lake Saint Claire on a boat and threw me overboard with no life vest.

They called it "trial by fire". Guess it worked.
 
I live an hour from the Gulf of Mexico, so swimming is a common spring/summer activity here. And if you can swim against the waves out in that body of water, you can pretty much hold your own anywhere! :)
 
I'm not a fast swimmer (I always say it's an insult to swimmers to call what I do swimming!) but I do enjoy it. Since getting a noseclip I really like swimming underwater too, I never got the hang of that when I was younger.
 
I can swim in a swimming pool. I have significantly more trouble when there are waves involved, and I refuse to swim in the pond near our cabin because it has leeches and a snapping turtle.
 
Yeah, I can swim. In the same way I can sing & dance. That is, very badly. I tend not to venture deeper than around my own height in the sea, for instance, and avoid big waves. I'm better in a swimming pool, where I don't need to worry about being swept away so much... :lol:
 
The last time I did any swimming was for a few weeks in Year 10 as part of PE classes. It was kinda embarrassing, the first week, since I was the only person in the group that couldn't actually swim.

And then, much to my irritation, I kept getting comments about it from people during the next two classes that day.

Fortunately it stopped after that, and we only had to do swimming for a few weeks, before moving on to something else.

We were supposed to do swimming again in Year 11, but fortunately there wasn't time in the schedule. :)
 
I dipped into the swimming poll (I see what you all did there :p) and voted "yes". Albeit I'm not very good, and I haven't done any serious swimming for a very long time - probably not for 10 years in fact, not since that lovely day in... :adore: oh, where was I? Oh, yes.

I did take swimming lessons in school, although I remember trying out swimming during pre-school and almost drowning a few times :lol: - but I loved swimming. It took me a long while to outgrow my water wings, however, and remain afloat, but somehow I managed to. I even got a swimming certificate - not a great one, but a certificate nonetheless.

I loved swimming - although my strokes were limited to front crawl and breaststroke
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[Put it away - someone] which I was at least proficient at, if not particularly fast, but I never tolerated backstroke, and I couldn't do the butterfly. I was also very wary of deep water as I never had the confidence to stay afloat, although later in school I did learn how to dive short depths and tread water.

I haven't been near a swimming pool for years, although I'm sure it's one of those things that comes back to me in time, just like riding a bicycle... underwater. :bolian:
 
I learned how to swim as a kid, but I'm strictly a recreational swimmer. All of my kids were competitive swimmers though so I spent a lot more time doing it during the 90s. These days I'm back to recreational swimming with my kids. Since both my daughters were lifeguards I always feel better when I have one of them around.
 
I took swimming lessons for years as a kid, so I damn well better be able to swim! I was never especially skilled at it, but I can do all the basics. I think part of the reason my mom signed me up for the lessons was so that I didn't end up like my dad in that department (he never learned how to swim).

I don't swim much these days (even though there is a swimming pool in my building), but on the rare occasion that I do take a dip, I never have any trouble picking it up again.
 
I can dogpaddle...does that count? I think it does. There should be an Olympic medal for dogpaddling.

Honestly. I'd SO own that one.
 
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