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Swimming -

Can you swim?
Do you still swim?
When have you learned swimming?
Was it easy or hard to learn?


I was a late swimmer (for this region) and learned swimming when I was 8 years old. Shortly before they tested for swimming badges in school. I could swim underwater for years before I learned to swim on the surface. It was troublesome to learn, my family had already given up on teaching me. I then tried unsupervised on my own one afternoon and it finally worked!

I don't know why it was so hard to learn.
I had no motor difficulties, but it was hard to learn and I'm still a horrible swimmer today, although I'm good at sports other than swimming and ball sports. I'm just not fit for swimming I guess, everybody else in my family loves it though and they swim well too, even my grandmother who's quite old already.

I can swim but i haven't done it for a long time i was a late starter but i became a very useful swimmer but i don't take da sport dat serious.

I can't swim, I never even tried and I don't imagine I could ever have my face under the water.

i was able to swim when i was younger and able to walk and proficiently swim... that does not mean i cant go in like a hot tub or something like that.

I cannot go into cold pools anymore since my thermal control has gone totally wonky due to this degenerative disease...

not to mention even if i did go in a hot tub i'd still want to wear a wetsuit hahaha...

I've never learned the crawl properly, only the breast- and backstroke. I'm not very good at either though and I don't really like swimming. (I'd rather sit on my towel reading a book. )

As a child I hated putting my face in the water (it didnt help that our teacher insisted we swim without goggles) and I was never that good at swimming although I did quite like it. However, for the past 12 years I have gone swimming twice a week - it is my main exercise, and as a result I have become quite good at it - faster than most people I share lanes with. It is my favorite forms of exercise. In my very obsessive period (which ended 4 years ago now), I would HAVE to swim twice a week otherwise I didnt feel right, but now its more relaxed.

I like swimming, and wish I could to it more often..as long as the pool is not too crowded...I like the sensory deprivation from just floating on my back in the water.

When i was a kid, i was so clumsy and badly coordinated that most athletic activites were a cumbersome, humiliating and unpleasant chore.

The exceptions were swimming and bike riding.

Great topic!

I'm a swimmer, swimming is my "thing". Water has always been a great way to lift pressure off my body.

For most of my life, I have been an underwater swimmer, having only managed to grasp the backstroke, breaststroke and fly. My hubby was his country's backstroke champion, so we swim a lot, and since I've been with him (patient little bugger that he is), he's managed to teach me how to do a proper front crawl. I don't know how good it is, but it works, I can now do my strokes with simply turning my head, rather than lifting it.

I know how to swim but I haven't been swimming in a long time. Public pools are just plain nasty.

I used to go swimming, but I haven't gone, over the past couple of years.

Personally, I don't like swimming anymore, for various reasons.
I'm fairly good at it, though I haven't done it in quite a while.

I can't swim. My arms don't want to work properly in the water. I don't know if it's a motor thing or a fear thing, but I just can't move my arms right. And I CAN'T for the life of me float. I just can't. Part of it may be that I am afraid my head will go under so I instinctively put my feet back down. I almost drowned when I was 7 or 8 and I've never really forgotten it.

However, I do enjoy being in the water. I am not afraid of water in general. If i have a paddle board I like to "swim" by just kicking my legs. I absolutely hate crowded swimming pools though because I can't stand having so many people around me. It's a sensory thing - plus they get in my way.

I do not know how to swim.

I take to water like an otter. I love to swim. I really love to snorkel in the tropics. The sensory deprivation is there, but I am on my stomach. I can see the fishes and try to pet them sometimes. I just have to be careful not to get swept too far away from where I started. I have never been swept more than a mile out to sea, but I have gone 5 miles sideways before. I love to spend day after day, just floating in the warm silence, watching the fishes...

Yes, I can, quite well.
Do I still ? It depends, see below.
Dunno' when I learned-was before age 10, certainly.
Not sure if it was easy or hard to learn. Probably "average" (in-between) ?

Okay, it's like this:
Could "doggie-paddle" swim (only, at first) for while as kid. Took lessons at city pool (before I was teenager) & then learned how to do the other kinds of swimming (with arms extended). Had hard time dealing with going underwater, but once I made it past that hurdle, I was okay with doing so. Still love to swim-however, circumstances prevent it actually happening-hate getting out of the water, I completely freak out (being cold & wet makes me hysterical) for hours afterwards.

Also, have a major issue with where, in what, I swim. Cannot tolerate natural places, because they have natural things in water-like dead leaves, algae-covered boulders (had a panic attack about them as kid & couldn't go back to where I used to swim ever again), and so on. Only can stand swimming pools-but even then, am extremely squeamish about the condition (cleanliness) of it, so I'm pretty limited as to where I can swim. So I love swimming but I hardly ever get opportunity to do it, because of my difficulties-like "the princess and the pea".

I can swim. I'm a good swimmer - steady - but very slow. I do triathlon (probably largely because I love bikes, since I hate running) and although I never stop or quit, I'm always one of the last out of the water. It's easier in a pool than in open water (mostly lakes around here) because I can gauge my distance. I always count my lengths and calculate the fractions and percentages of the distance that I have completed. Doing the numbers seems to keep me on track and engaged.

My parents had me swimming all my life, so I don't remember when I first learned, but I remember that they forced me to complete the program until I had all 6 stars, and this was a huge issue for me as a preteen/teen, when I was uncomfortable with my body and [naturally] had no friends from whom I could seek support.

The idea of swimming - keeping myself above water and alive, and going for as long as I felt like without stopping - was easy to learn. The precise motions and forms were extremely difficult (for example, I was never allowed to compete in breaststroke because I did it differently, and it took me over a year to pass one swimming level because I trod water with alternating legs instead of in sync like I was told).