Can you really swim?

Timewise 60+ said:
The key here is to 'exhale' when your face is in the water. Do this before you turn your head to get more air. This is where many get it wrong. If you don't empty your lungs, you will not be able to get more air when you breath... Good swimmers learn to do this effortlessly thus enabling them to swim as long as they want...
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Great Advice! However, I tell the older folks who live in our gated community to use a snorkel and swim mask if they can't get enough air. After all, I rather see them in the pool getting a good workout than staying away from the pool because they can't breath properly while swimming.
 

My sister taught me to float, to swim, when I was five. I realize now I don't know how she learned to swim.

For about two years now I can't swim for more than a few feet. I can float, but seem to have forgot how to swim or maybe my arms hurt, IDK, I just can't swim anymore, it's weird.
 
Pepper said:
My sister taught me to float, to swim, when I was five. I realize now I don't know how she learned to swim.

For about two years now I can't swim for more than a few feet. I can float, but seem to have forgot how to swim or maybe my arms hurt, IDK, I just can't swim anymore, it's weird.
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Don't know about you but I think my center of gravity has changed.
 

oslooskar said:
Great Advice! However, I tell the older folks who live in our gated community to use a snorkel and swim mask if they can't get enough air. After all, I rather see them in the pool getting a good workout than staying away from the pool because they can't breath properly while swimming.
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oslooskar.... Perfect! I wish to heck someone had told us that when we were young! It took me years to figure it out and we are scuba certified. Although, swimming is a survival any of us could unexpectedly end up in the water. Swimming would be the only way to save ourselves. Knowing how to breath properly would be critical in that situation...hope none of us ever have to pass that test!
 
Pepper said:
My sister taught me to float, to swim, when I was five. I realize now I don't know how she learned to swim.

For about two years now I can't swim for more than a few feet. I can float, but seem to have forgot how to swim or maybe my arms hurt, IDK, I just can't swim anymore, it's weird.
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Be sure to practice "floating" around but kick with your feet and pull with your arms! Knowing how to save yourself is just a matter of floating and moving towards safety! Nothing more...
 
Babs2u said:
Yes. The Red Cross gave swimming lessons in the Great South Bay in my home town when I was a kid. The main problem was avoiding the jellyfish.
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And if you got stung you would go to the snack bar and someone would smear some meat tenderizer on you.
 
Yes I can swim quite good. I've learned it in childhood, which is much better than later. But I pretended that I couldn't swim at school sports, since I never liked sports and thus I was able to leave out one hour a week :ROFLMAO:
 
Growing up, I lived near a large, beautiful lake with a sandy beach and almost clear water. Our small town had swimming lessons every summer for the kids to learn how to swim, so I have been swimming all of my life, and I love being in the water and swimming.
Now, we just go to the fitness center and i swim for an hour several times a week, and I really enjoy that. It is actually much better for me at my age, because the pool is nice and warm water, not the cold lake water, or fast running water like swimming in a river or the ocean.

When I was a toddler, and my folks went to the lake to camp and fish over the weekend, my mom let me play at the edge of the lake, but she also tied a clothesline rope around my waist in case I somehow got too far out, she could easily pull me back to shore.
 
It isn’t pretty but I’ve always been able to keep from drowning .. so far. Never had a lesson so I gravitate toward something like side stroke, back stroke or just hold my breath and pull myself through the water like a frog.

Took scuba lessons a long time ago and managed to pass the test of swimming the length of the pool along the bottom with one breath. But only ever dove with tanks off of San Diego amid mostly lifeless Sandy bottoms. Snorkeling in Hawaii was a lot better.
 

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