Can You Swim?

[Glacier]

I am a very strong swimmer. My hubby calls me a fish. I worked as a lifeguard for several summers when I was younger. I learned to scuba dive when we were in Cuba in May. I love being in the water. My Mom is terrified of water, like the Queen of Poop, she won't even take a bath. She made sure her kids knew how to swim very young.

My hubby can swim, is a certified open water diver and is convinced he will die by drowning. He has had a couple near drowning experiences. He does not enjoy swimming at all and his ears are too sensitive to dive anymore!

[sumbirdy]

I can't swim. I've tried to learn several times up until I was 9. That year I almost drowned, and I've been too afraid ever since. Nathan is learning to swim this year. My dad is a very strong swimmer and Nathan is doing very well. He loves the water. On his 3rd birthday we took him swimming and he learned to float. But swimming is just not for me. I'll put my feet in the water but that's as far as I'll go.

[lvpets2002]

Yup I can swim very well.. At one time was a Certified Life Guard.. They have always said I should have been born as a fish.. Just think Pisces the fish is my sign..

[AdoreMyDogs]

You can't even graduate high school in Michigan without taking and passing swim class. I've known how to swim since I was a little girl and if I could swim every day I certainlly would.

[Freedom]

Oh yeah, I can swim!

Mom started me at Mom and Tot classes at the Y when I was 2 1/2 years old. Since then, I took lessons, became a life guard, taught swimming, took synchronized swimming and performed in shows for 3 years, and competed on a team.

Oh yeah, I can swim!

[Logan]

I miss having the opportunity to swim regularly. I have been swimming since I was 3 years old. Like many of you, I have a mother who never learned to swim and is terrified of water, so it was ultra important to her to have us be good swimmers. She knew she would never be able to save us, herself.
I started swimming competitively when I was 4 years old on the YMCA year round swim team and kept doing it up until high school. I think I took every Red Cross swimming course there was (there were tons of levels, named after fish) and many times I was the only one in the class. I got my Red Cross lifesaving and water safety instruction certification and life guarded one summer and taught swimming lessons from infants to adults. It was great fun, but it was at an indoor pool. Yuck! My friends were getting tan, life guarding at the country club and I was at the YMCA. LOL! I taught swimming lessons one more time right after I graduated from college, part time, in the late afternoons when I got off of work. That was at a YMCA too.

Genny, there are adult swimming classes available at the YMCA, YWCA and country recreation facilities. You should learn in the environment that is most comfortable to you. I wish you were in SC and I would teach you myself!

[k9krazee]

I like to think I'm a strong swimmer. I had Lifeguard and had PADI rescue diving training when I was 16.

We have a cabin on the lake that we'd visit during the summer and then when I was about 7 we got a pool. I always wished that I would have gotten into competitive swimming in school. Oh, and in high school everybody has to swim once a week.

[Suki Wingy]

Oh me too. Everyone I knew growing up could swim. I've gone through lifeguard training and will be SCUBA certified as soon as I take the open water portion of the test thingy.

[Felicia's Mom]

I learned how to swim in high school. I have not done any for a long time though.

[ramanth]

My grandparents owned a cottage on a lake, so I've been in the water since birth.

When we'd visit in the summertime, my sisters and I would race from the car, be in our swimsuits and leaping off the dock before my parents would have the car unpacked. *laughs*

I was in Swim Club in Junior High, but found I enjoyed recreational swimming and water sports more than professional.

I love to swim.

[MoonandBean]

I don't even remember learning but we had a nice ingrown pool in my yard growing up and I used to swim laps as exercise. Grew up on LI so I was always in the ocean and diving through the waves. I miss it. Darn...now I need to go plan a trip to the beach

[CountryWolf07]

I never really learned how to swim, actually. I don't remember learning when I was little. Just never really had the opportunity to! I don't swim much, but I love to lay out in the water though - I get easily scared, though - I almost drowned when I was about 8.

[JuniorxMyxLove]

Absolutely not.

I've tried to learn, I took two years worth of lessons when I was younger. We never made any progress, because it took 1.5 yrs for me to put my head under water, hahaha.

I can kinda stay floating, if I flail my limbs a certain way. But I try to avoid doing so, as it's very odd looking and slightly painful.

this is also why I had so far avoiding taking freshman PE - there's a whole swimming segment...

[kitten645]

My/our scariest swiming related situation happened when I was 12 and my sister was 8. We were all fishes and took diving lessons. I was taking a swimming lesson and watched Jackie climb the high dive like she'd done so many times before. As she walked out she mis-steped and fell off sideways
You heard the whole swimming complex gasp! 100 or more people! Lifeguards dove into the water. Her guardian angel must have given her a shove because she just nicked her leg on the edge of the concrete! 12 foot high dive! She wailed and carried on with a small cut/bruise but was right back on in a couple of hours! Kids are resilient and fearless.
Claudia

[Taz_Zoee]

I can swim. I remember learning how to swim, but I don't remember how old I was exactly. I remember we were getting a pool put in our backyard and on vacation once we went to a lake. I remember holding my breath and going under and opening my eyes. That is the first place I ever actually swam, I was so proud.
But yeah, growing up with a pool in the backyard, there was a requirement to swim. Both of my nieces learned how to swim at a young age. My oldest niece HATED it when she was little. The younger one was (and still is) a fish!!!

But a strange this is...when we go snorkeling I panic when I get out in deep water with my face in the water. I have to have a floatation device.