Can You Swim?

[sasvermont]

I took swimming lessons each summer for a few years. The Red Cross would offer the lessons for free. I went from Beginner through Senior Life Saving..... At the time, I hated the obligation but am glad now that we were given the opportunity to learn how to save a life - maybe our own.

I still have my first button (given out at the end of each level)...... and I would wear it to work when I worked for the law firm .... just to kill them a little. They thought I was nuts for wearing it.... like... "How stupid, a Beginner Swimmer Button"..... but I did it just to let the attorneys know that it was OK to be human.

I don't know why I have only that button....and not the others..... oh well.

So, yes, I can swim and would suggest that everyone learn how to swim.

[chocolatepuppy]

Yep, I can swim.

[finn's mom]

I can swim, but I can't do strokes of any kind. I doggie paddle or swim like a frog. I never learned how to dive. I did take scuba diving lessons when I was about twenty, but only got to dive for a year or so, so it's been about 12 years since I did any diving. I'd have to retake the course, for sure. I have decent endurance, but again, I am not a stylish swimmer.

[sirrahbed]

I can float, tread, dogpaddle and sort of breast stroke. I grew up with lessons in the summers and lots of pool time but never was very good or coordinated at it - but yes, I guess I would say i can 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.

[Karen]

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.

If you and I are ever in the same place in the summer, I bet I could teach you how to at least float, and to swim a little. I am glad Nathan is a good swimmer!

[blue]

Learned to swim as a kid but the best swim instruction I got was for river self rescue and USMC swim quals.

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

I can swim, but not so good! I can swim to the opposite of the swimming pool, but then I am exhausted ! I also always have to be sure I am not in deep water; as soon as I cannot touch the ground anymore I just PANIC........ ; hmmmm, great swimmer hey

[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.

[smokey the elder]

Everyone in my neighbor had a pool, and we had a YMCA within walking distance. I started taking formal swim classes at 8 and I was already such a strong swimmer they bumped me up a couple ranks! I swam competitively in high school (500m free.) However, I've become sensitized to pool chlorine and can't swim any more...bummer.