Do you know how to swim? 🏊‍♀️

[amemome]

yes and it's one of my favorite things to do to be active! i love doing dive-starts but i haven't found pools near me that are deep enough... i haven't been swimming much as of recent due to that + getting tattoos and piercings .

 

[Seastar]

Nope, I cannot. I even almost drowned once. At the moment I don't even have clothes for swimming. I haven't done it since I was a teenager.

 

[-Blue-]

This topic is mind boggling to me. I realize now that I am an ignorant idiot for assuming everybody can swim! I guess I took for granted growing up on the coastline...

Swimming was just something I did. I wish I could teach all of you to swim, it feels so magical to me!

It kind of makes sense though depending where someone lives. I remember watching some video in school and learning some tidbit about how some people don't even see rain until they're an adult because of the region they live in. It's hard for me to imagine going through my childhood and never seeing a drop of rain. I wonder how bewildered people are when it happens like that and they experience something we take for granted for the first time in their life.


I know how to swim, but I don't live anywhere where I actively use it. There are pools and stuff, but I don't own one and it's kinda expensive to pay for places that do. Just whenever I go to beaches or a pool, but it's not very often. The last time was this June when I went to the Caribbeans and swam really far out to see all the cool sea-life, but I was still smart about it and knew my limits. Before that though it was probably like sometime in 2023.

 

[~Kilza~]

Nope. I was signed up for swimming lessons when I was a kid, but I didn't last very long in them, and I've never felt the need to learn how to swim as I've grown older. Fortunately where I live is landlocked and nowhere close to water, so I don't need to worry about drowning since I don't ever have to go into water.

 

[ShawnFuzz]

After all of my swimming talk, and about being good at it, I will admit I do not float. I have never understood how someone can just relax on their back and float like it's nothing. My legs instantly drag my down. I always need to be moving to swim.

 

[milktae]

No ive tried learning but i just never got the hang of it. Its so inconvenient too since i live near the beach and never go in the ocean LOL

 

[Aniko]

I used to know, I'm been thrown in a pool when I was 6 yo, I learned the hard way. Then I swam in lakes and rivers but disliked it because of leeches, eels and it's slippery. I liked the sea but it was soooo cold, it was warmer in New Brunswick but it was full of jellyfish. I never had the occasion to swim again so I probably forgot.

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After all of my swimming talk, and about being good at it, I will admit I do not float. I have never understood how someone can just relax on their back and float like it's nothing. My legs instantly drag my down. I always need to be moving to swim.

I do float, and was relaxing like that on my back in the sea until I noticed the beach was super far away and started panicking a bit.

 

[Muna]

Great that there is a "maybe" option, it's perfect for me. I kinda know how to swim, I can move a short distance in the water and not drown for a while, I even attended pool at my university where I successfully learned how to swim crawl style. BUT I don't feel confident in a deep water at all and I don't even go there. I'm not even sure if I can float in one spot. When someone asks I just say "I don't know how to swim".

 

[Chris]

Yes. I was raised by sailors and it was incredibly important to them that I be a strong swimmer. I was made to practice weekly, including in waves.

 

[Neb]

I took lessons on how to swim at a Y.M.C.A. when I was around 5-6 years old. For a while I struggled with kicking hard enough, but eventually I got the hang of it. I was taught how to do the front stroke, back stroke, and froggy paddle. A few years later I taught myself the side stroke. The style I’m best at doing has always been the backstroke.

I swam at pools pretty frequently growing up, but rarely go now. The pools where I live currently are all either too crowded or too expensive. I miss doing it a lot though and I hope I can do it again soon.

 

[ShadowLelouch97]

I do know how to swim. I was taught at age four-six if I'm not mistaken? I spent a lot of summer's at my Uncle and Aunt's pool just swimming. I was on my school's swim team fifteen years ago, and got rookie of the year for it too. I don't swim much these days because I think it's boring but I miss it here and there.

 

[hakutaku]

I did learn how to swim in primary school because our whole class used to get driven to the pool on Fridays for lessons. I got a 25m certificate, so I guess technically I do know how.

But I haven't actually been swimming in over a decade tbh, so not sure if I'll have forgotten everything or not...

 

[Wildtown]

I haven't swam in years; I am however confident I can swim. Took like 10 summers of swim lessons as a kid.

 

[skarmoury]

Yes!! In fact I was a competitive swimmer when I was younger, and they invited me to join the national swimming competition (!!!!!) after placing in the regionals, but I declined because I was then preparing to go to high school and it wasn't something I could commit to nor enjoy Now I enjoy leisurely swimming and doing it for the exercise (If i have time), but it's still funny though when random swimmers at the pool look at me amazed when I do a perfect dive LOL. Also in college they had this "skip PE altogether" course where if we proved we were physically fit in a sport then we'd get full credits for all required PE subjects for college. I chose the advance swimming course and passed so I never had another PE class after that LMAO.

My specialties before were freestyle and butterfly. I was decent with backstroke and absolutely sucked with breaststroke.

 

[Suguri]

My mom made me take swimming lessons when I was little, and then I expanded my knowledge during one of the P.E. units in high school. So...maybe? Then again, I don't do a lot of swimming because we don't have a pool and we never have time to go to one near us.

 

[Jhine7]

Yes I do! I grew up with a pool, and now own one myself!

 

[Rosch]

This is a life skill I never acquired. When I was a kid, I got into swimming classes. On the very first day, they threw me into the pool. Then I quit and never learned how to swim. That was a PTSD moment for me.

 

[Snowesque]

Yep! I use to be a good swimmer, but I've not had the opportunity in a long time.

 

[AngelTheRabbit]

When I was little I was considering learning, but swimming classes were just traumatic enough to make me stop. Even almost drowning in the sea twice didn't change my mind since then - I'm always very serious about giving up.

 

[Airysuit]

That's so odd to me that so many people haven't learned? I think where I'm from its kinda mandatory to learn in school before ~12yo

But than again I come from a very watery country way below sealevel, so maybe that's why we take it so serious lmao