do you like to swim????

[Moesha]

I hate being wet! I do most of the work taking care of our pool, but in the last 3 years have maybe be in the water for a total of an hour. And that's stretching it.

[Jessika]

Well it depends... I don't really like doing it a lot but if I'm at the beach I'll be there all day! I don't necessarily like swimming but I love floating around on a raft or just wading

Besides, it's too much work for me to "get ready" to swim, gotta make sure you shave and all that fun stuff... and I HATE shaving

[*LabLoverKEB*]

I love to swim! Just not in the ocean! lol I am terribly afraid of the ocean and all the creatures in the ocean.... Weird, I know. Lakes I don't mind, though!

[Yorkie Lover]

Me too! I love to swim!!! I was on the Watauga Swim Team, and it only took half a month for me to move up! I was in a Swim Meet, and I still just love to swim during hot days in the summer! My dog hates the water, and I do not know what his problem is.

[Miss Z]

I like swimming, and not just in summer! I swim for the school team sometimes - I can do races but mostly I go for the endurance tests. I can maintain a fairly good front crawl for a mile or so. It's odd, because if I ran that distance, I'd exhaust myself! I think it's probably because I have more upper body strength than leg strength thanks to horse-riding. One day, I'd like to swim the Channel for charity, like David Walliams did!

[Suki Wingy]

I love water. I love all kinds of swimming except for lap swimming. I took aquatics for my gym class one semester in high school, and we learned how to SCUBA. I really want to get my open water cert so I can dive outside the pool! When I was little, I practiced treading water with only my legs because I saw the dolphin and whale trainers at Sea World doing it and waving with their hands. I wanted to be a dolphin or orca trainer for a very long time.

[Suki Wingy]

I think it's probably because I have more upper body strength than leg strength thanks to horse-riding.

I think I am opposite of you. My arms are really weak, but my legs are really strong from riding.

[Miss Z]

I think I am opposite of you. My arms are really weak, but my legs are really strong from riding.

It's funny how different riders turn out in different ways. One of my friends is like you - she's a brilliant runner thanks to her leg strength from riding. Maybe just the different ways people naturally sit on the horse causes them to become strong in certain areas. In dressage I don't use my legs for too much other than squeezing and keeping still, but other riders that jump more than I do I understand use them a lot more. I wouldn't say my strength is in my arms though, it's probably more in my shoulders and back.

I took aquatics for my gym class one semester in high school, and we learned how to SCUBA.

That's awesome! I would love to learn how to scuba dive.