Do you know how to swim?

[terrya]

[Cuban_Liberal]

1. Like a proverbial fish. n/t

[billyskank]

2. Yes.

[Lavender Brown]

3. Yes

[yvr girl]

4. I've been called

Sandraqua on more than one occasion, so - yes.

[MonkeyFunk]

5. Quite well. I used to be a lifeguard.

Did that for two summers during my college years.

I wasn't much of a Hasselhoff, sadly.

[HEAVYHEART]

6. No

I never learned. Maybe Cuban_Liberal can teach me. hehehe. Ok that's enough! I know! I've been a little flirt today. I'm really leaving now! :-)

[Skittles]

10. hey HH

I urge you to learn how to swim - at least learn how to keep yourself bobbing in the water and move - I've never been a great swimmer but I can float and move. You just never know when you may need to know how to swim - I'm not talking about tsunamis but about stuff like flash floods. Do it HH - get thee to a YMCA or somewhere and learn - it's never too late.

[HEAVYHEART]

12. Oh I know

It's on my list to do before I die. Seriously. I can actually swim under the water but I cannot tread water. :-(

[Skittles]

20. HH please make it a priority

please - you just never know, you don't. Sounds like you only need a few lessons to get you going. Here in Texas I made a coworker of mine learn to swim and I kid you not she got caught in the beginnings of a flash flood - she made it out fine but she swore to me she would have panicked were it not for those lessons.

[HEAVYHEART]

30. Ok mom!! Gosh, I will!

Seriously though, I plan on learning this year. Speaking of flash floods, I sometimes have dreams where I get caught in a flood and I start drowning, and then I wake up. I think it's time that I learn to swim.

[Skittles]

45. well OK then

:thumbsup:

[Skittles]

7. yes, and I can float using no muscles at all

I can actually fall asleep floating in the water :D

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

23. I recommend visiting

this page.

[Skittles]

29. LOL

actually it's the size of my lungs. :D

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

33. Ah, so you KICK ASS by blowing people away?

Big bad Skittles wolf?

[Skittles]

44. LOL I wish

it would be easier on my joints :D

[Worst Username Ever]

8. Yes. MN, Land of 10,000 lakes. Swimming is a pre-req to living here!

[outraged2]

9. yes nt

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. Yes

I've been swimming since I was 3 years old. I've always lived near one body of water or another.

[RevolutionaryActs]

13. Yessum, I love to swim.

:)

[Donkeyboy75]

14. Former lifeguard here.

But I hate swimming.

[MonkeyFunk]

16. That's the beauty about lifeguarding.

You almost NEVER have to swim. In two summers, I only had to dive in once.

[jonnyblitz]

15. yup. grew up near lakes in Maine and lived in the water

every summer.

[madison2000]

17. Minnow, Fish, Flying Fish, and Shark badges at the YMCA

its a good thing to know :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

18. I can get from point A to point B without sinking

and that's about it.

[nickgutierrez]

19. Ironically, no. Or, not very well at least.

I grew up in Florida. There were so many opportunities to learn that I just never bothered to actually go and do it. I can keep myself afloat, though.

[redqueen]

21. Yes

It's fun!

[Bouncy Ball]

22. Very well. I practically grew up in the water (in ground pool in backyard

when I was growing up--went to 12 feet deep).

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

24. Yes. n/t

[Dzimbowicz]

25. Yes

I spent my early childhood in a house beside a river and swimming was one of the first things my parents taught me to do. They were very concerned about the safety of me and my sister.

When I was a Marine I passed their swim test: We had to jump, fully clothed (minus boots), from a twenty-five foot wall, swim 100 meters and then remain afloat for thirty minutes without touching the bottom, or side, of the pool. We were allowed to use our trousers as flotation devices, that is if one had learned that lesson. This, however, was a very long time ago, but I think I can still keep my head above water.

[ThorsHammer]

26. Yes

[Florida_Geek]

27. scuba cert.

I would guess so

[DoNotRefill]

28. I don't swim....

I bob.

/unsinkable DNR

[huskerlaw]

31. Yes

Numerous years of swimming lessons...and a pool in the backyard. I'm half fish.

[MonkeyFunk]

34. Which half?

:D

[huskerlaw]

39. Muahahahaha

wouldn't you like to know! :evilgrin:

[qnr]

32. Jr & Sr lifeguard, retired CG - definate "maybe" n/t

[scarlet_owl]

35. Yes, I can swim.

I'm very buoyant, too.

[SarahB]

36. Yeah.

Not a great one, but yeah, I can swim. :)

[kitkatrose]

37. Yes.

Swimming's a prerequisite to graduation in my college. Yay me!! :)

[RagingInMiami]

38. I learned how to swim shortly after I learned how to walk

[Nikia]

41. I did too

My parents took me to those parent/infant swim lessons at the Y. By the time I was old enough for progressive swim lessons by myself, I was insisting that I didn't need a flotation belt. I insisted that I could swim fine and I did.

[Kenneth ken]

40. yep

swam competitively for about ten years; lifeguarded and taught lessons summers in HS. Still swim 6 days a week - it's the best exercise for me that I know of; I enjoy it, I am reasonably good at it, and I love being in the water, so it's easy to "make" myself do it, which is the trouble spot I have with most other exercise routines.

[Minimus]

42. Oh yes. Took swimming lessons as a wee child. Learned in water over

my head. Still remember clinging to the side of the pool in terror.

Dad was in the Navy so we pretty much always lived near a beach.

I used to beg my Parents for a swimming pool, but we moved around quite a bit.

When Dad finally retired they bought a house with an in-ground pool. Of course I no longer lived at home. I still tease them about that, as soon as I leave the nest you get a pool. Gee thanks Mom and Dad!;)

[NYYFan]

43. No- but there's a good reason why

when taking swimming lessons when I was about 7- I nealry drowned. So I am understandably :scared:

[Left Is Write]

46. Yes. When I was a kid, my folks put a pool in our backyard.

[mcscajun]

47. Now I do...I started taking lessons in September 2003 at the local "Y"

For the record -- I'm 53.

So it is never too late to learn.

[GOPisEvil]

48. I used to be a lifeguard, so, yes.

:-)

[SmileyBoy]

49. Former lifeguard and 1996 backstroke conference champion, here.

I won the Classic Lake JH conference title in the backstroke in 8th grade. I was a licensed lifeguard for a while, but that license now obviously expired.

[Jesus H. Christ]

50. I don't see how people can go through life not knowing how to swim.

That's a very alien concept to me.

[IStriker]

51. Yes