David777
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- Location
- Silicon Valley
Everyone born in Los Angeles in its land of pools at least decades ago, knew how to swim at an early age. Then growing up, lived several years in the hot Sacramento area where likewise, all kids are in pools much of the summer. In my neighborhoods, every home with kids had those round plastic pools.
Have swam in many natural creeks, lakes, rivers, and the Pacific, Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico oceans. Hey I lived in San Diego for a year as a HS freshman during the peak of the surfing craze. In my twenties, often body surfed in a wet suit in Santa Cruz until I decided I couldn't take its really cold water any more. Can still perform a nicely balanced swan dive from as much as about 10 feet. Above that never liked the skull concussion impacts but will jump off higher rocks into lakes. But most all of that was as a kid.
With a thin body without mass for float, I tend to sink more readily than others, so was never one that could swim long distances using a crawl stroke without strenuous effort. If necessary to go a longer distance given strong legs, I can tread water mixed with sidestrokes or backstrokes.
Have swam in many natural creeks, lakes, rivers, and the Pacific, Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico oceans. Hey I lived in San Diego for a year as a HS freshman during the peak of the surfing craze. In my twenties, often body surfed in a wet suit in Santa Cruz until I decided I couldn't take its really cold water any more. Can still perform a nicely balanced swan dive from as much as about 10 feet. Above that never liked the skull concussion impacts but will jump off higher rocks into lakes. But most all of that was as a kid.
With a thin body without mass for float, I tend to sink more readily than others, so was never one that could swim long distances using a crawl stroke without strenuous effort. If necessary to go a longer distance given strong legs, I can tread water mixed with sidestrokes or backstrokes.
