Can You Swim?

**Edwina's Secretary** · 07-26-2009, 10:00 PM

I remember my mother taking me for swimming lessons at Rockford College before I was in grade school. We spent every summer day when it didn't rain (and some when it did) at the swim club when I was a kid.

It was also required to graduate high school.

I am not a lap swimmer but I can certainly swim.

**DJFyrewolf36** · 07-26-2009, 10:50 PM

Im from the desert and learned how to swim at a very young age. Im glad I did because when I was about 5 I was in northern Ca on a beach and ended up getting caught in an undertow. I managed to swim my way to safety though.

I don't like the water but I have always felt that being prepaired is a good thing!

**caseysmom** · 07-26-2009, 10:51 PM

A little off topic but I am so excited, I went swimming for the first time this year because of the broken foot, it felt so good to move with no crutches or anything, I should have done it sooner but I am just now able to put a little weight on my heel and I wasn't sure how I would get in and out before.

**Twisterdog** · 07-26-2009, 11:13 PM

I LOVE to swim. In fact, it's the only sport I'm good at!

My dad taught me to swim in the pool at our motel when we went to California on vacation. I was probably six or seven.

My mom grew up on a ranch in New Mexico ... a LONG way from any water. She never learned as a child, and it grew to be somthing she was afraid of as time went on. However, she DID learn to swim in my aunt's pool when she was in her 70's. Go Mom!

**jenluckenbach** · 07-27-2009, 09:54 AM

I can swim, but I really don't like the water. I used to, but it just doesn't appeal to me any longer.

My husband never learned to swim.

**Puckstop31** · 07-27-2009, 02:10 PM

I can swim well. Had a "Rescue Diver" PADI certification when I lived in Florida during my college years. But it has been like 8 years since I dove. Kinda miss it.

**wolf_Q** · 07-27-2009, 05:50 PM

Not well...I can doggy paddle the length of a pool that's about it haha. I took swimming lessons as a child but I remember getting shoved under a tube or something at a water park when I was young and it freaked me out. I panic when I can't touch. I wish I could swim well, I still like to mess around in the water, just not water that's too deep for me to touch the ground.

**Genny** · 07-27-2009, 09:19 PM

I can't swim. I really REALLY want to learn how though cause I LOVE the water. We go to the river once a month and I want to learn how really bad. My brother is 29 and he told me he'd teach me how, but I'm so shy and there's always other people swimming where we go and I feel dorky out there trying to learn in front of all those strangers so I won't really give him a chance to teach me.

Is it hard to learn after you get oldeR??? How long does it usually take to learn? I desperately want to learn how--use to when I was little I didn't want to take swimming lessons. My mom wanted me to but I didn't want to and now I wish I had of, but I didn't so I can't change that now

**Karen** · 07-27-2009, 10:16 PM

Genny, it shouldn't take more than a lesson or two, and don't be ashamed of learning if there are other people there. They likely won't pay any attention at all to what you folks are doing. And if anyone is, they will be proud of you for learning. It is no harder to learn as an adult than as a child, just don't let fear get in your way and you'll do fine! You're never gonna get any younger, so learn now!