I think the best way to learn would be to just get into a pool that you can stand up in, and imitate other people that are swimming. That's how I learned to ice skate (on a skating rink though, not a pool)
Is that available to you?
I don't know how to swim, and it was my primary source of embarrassment growing up.
When I was very young, I had a very traumatic event where I almost drowned, I can still feel the water filling up my nose and going down my throat. The odd thing is, I love being ON the water, but not in it. The feeling of not having terra firma underneath me is an uncomfortable one.
Now that I am older, I have been thinking more and more of taking private 1:1 swim lessons. I have always told myself that once I am proficient with swimming, I will reward myself with SCUBA lessons. I have also been thinking of taking a trip to Hawaii by myself to learn how to swim, among other things, with an instructor of course in a pool.
I don't have the tremendous fear of water so much now days, it has just become something I have not dealt with, but will.
Almost everyone has a phobia, mine is of the aquatic kind. A thread regarding everyone's phobias would be interesting.
Stereotype = Black people can't swim. I've seen a black man almost drown because he was on a boat and fell off.... If you get on a boat, you should know how to swim.
I can swim well.
My ex boyfriend died at 20 years because he didn't know how to swim. Easily preventable death.
uh, i cant swim.
can probably jump and run better than you though
All of our highschools do down here.
Wow, sorry to hear.
My mom is from Minnesota. There weren't many pools around when she was growing up. She took classes in her 40's to learn how to swim.
That's pretty shocking to me. Even without pools, there are exactly 100 bazillion swimmable lakes in the Twin Cities area alone.
That's pretty shocking to me. Even without pools, there are exactly 100 bazillion swimmable lakes in the Twin Cities area alone.
I think all humans know how to swim by nature at birth.
Part of my mom's swim lessons when she was a kid were in the ocean! The other part were in the worlds largest (at least at the time) heated salt water pool.
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lol. wiki actually includes: "it was said that it can be seen from space." Even though they say "citation needed," I have no idea why people think it's proper to include drivel like this.
You can't even see the Great Wall from space.
I find it surprising and sad that the intelligent people in this thread really have difficulty grasping how someone doesn't know how to swim. How hard is it to understand? Is it confusing when you meet someone who doesn't know how to high jump? Or cook? Or fly a plane?
It's one thing to say "everyone should know how to swim. It's an important skill." And another to act like people who can't swim are somehow physically or mentally retarded. And no, it's not common sense. There are people who can't ride a bike and I think it's an easy skill since I've been riding a long time, but I don't say "geez it's so easy. Why can't you just do it?"
I find it surprising and sad that the intelligent people in this thread really have difficulty grasping how someone doesn't know how to swim. How hard is it to understand? Is it confusing when you meet someone who doesn't know how to high jump? Or cook? Or fly a plane?
It's one thing to say "everyone should know how to swim. It's an important skill." And another to act like people who can't swim are somehow physically or mentally retarded. And no, it's not common sense. There are people who can't ride a bike and I think it's an easy skill since I've been riding a long time, but I don't say "geez it's so easy. Why can't you just do it?"