Can you swim ?

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Toomuchstuff

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I almost drowned when I was a kid , so I've been afraid of water ever since. The best I've been able to do is dog paddle for a few minutes. I'm so glad my husband and son can swim like fish. They'll be the ones IN the water , I'll be over there standing in ankle deep water ! There's really no place to swim around here unless it's a little lake or something. Everybody will be out playing in the water and I'll be the one inside in the A/C keeping cool that way. :(
 

I can keep my head above water, and move in one direction, very slowly, by various maneuvers. Don't think you could call it swimming, though. ;)
 

Not really. During my Navy boot camp days, they threw us in a pool. When you made it to the side, you were a 'swimmer'. So even though I was in the U.S. Navy, for four years, I couldn't swim and never step foot on a Navy ship. :)
 
Like a fish. I do laps about twice a month at the YWCA when my wife goes for her whatever class it is that she does there. Something like Tao Che.
 
No, I'm ashamed to say I cannot and have a fear of the water. A few years ago i was able to try to conquer my fear a little and hold my breath and swim under the water in the shallow end of the pool but had to stand up when I had to take a breath.
I did pay for swimming lessons but the idiot of an instructor said we all had to learn the crawl stroke first, where your head is below the water and only lifting it to take a breath. This I could not do and would have preferred the breast stroke so the lessons did not help.
My previous girlfriend was an excellent swimmer and was teaching me and I was doing well but we split up.
I don't know if it would be very easy for me to try again as I now suffer from COPD and find breathing on the best of days a little difficult. I wish I could swim though as it is excellent exercise.
 
not a non swimmer but classed as a poor swimmer. some time in my younger days water was feared, for whatever reason i dont know. navy taught me to back stroke enough to pass mom always said if my ship sank i would have to sink to the bottom and walk out
 
Yes, but not with any style or speed. What I can do is float like a cork. If floating was an Olympic sport, I'd be the first gold medalist.

My granddaughter was a competitive swimmer and a triathlete from the age of eight, having to swim up to 2 1/2 miles in open water. She always said what made her swim fast was the fear of drowning......with a body fat level too low to measure, she sank like a lead weight if she wasn't moving; she could tread water but she couldn't float and rest, so she wanted to get it over with as fast as possible.

I went swimming in the Great Salt Lake once. I think it would be impossible to drown there; you just pretty much bob around with most of your body out of the water.
 
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Cannot swim. Would sink like a rock! Never been around water and don't want to be. If the Good Lord woulda meant for you to swim, he'd have given you gills!!

We've had at least 3 drownings in the past few days here in Kansas. Seems every year, we have some. Folks simply do not take the time to put on life jackets. One incident at a lake just west of us. 22 year old, his wife, and his 3 year old child stopped at WalMart and bought cheap floatation devices. He tried to take his out to retrieve a beach ball. Fell off and drowned. Did not know how to swim, but went out on a cheap plastic raft on a deep lake.
 
No, but sometimes I wish I could. I tried to learn to float in a class at the Y...couldn't even do that! I'm told it was because of my fear. My two youngest grandchildren took to the water and swim like fish. In fact I was surprised to see my granddaughter "mermaid swim". My son, their father almost drowned twice when he was a little boy, once at a day camp and another when we went to Disney World. I went into the hotel shop for a couple of minutes just to get us some snacks and my friend, who's son was also in the pool said she'd watch them. By the time I came out, he had gone into the deep end like I told him not to and she and her son had rescued him. She said she couldn't swim but I bet she did that day! My son thought he could swim. He finally learned how by the time we took our next vacation a few years later.
 
Yes, I learned to swim as a young child at the beach in salt water, I prefer to swim in the ocean only, not swimming pools or lakes. Oddly enough my mother never learned how to swim and I never knew it as a child. She always said she didn't want to get her hair wet and stayed in water where her feet could still touch the ground. She didn't want me to know she was couldn't swim or was afraid to, because she didn't want it to affect me. I never knew she couldn't swim until I was an adult.
 

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