Poll: Can you swim?

[Jfur]

I grew up 2 blocks from the beach and surfed when younger

 

[element2k5]

hey man... we all started out as "swimmers".... its only natural that we return to our roots

 

[Roddy]

like a brick..


nah, i spose i can swim... not the fastest swimmer in the world but if i really wanted to try, i could swim ok

-Roddy..

 

[metallibloke]

I can swim enough to keep me afloat, but i'm not very good.

 

[edjam]

Yep, I've always been able to swim.

 

[NeoMadHatter]

i hope so. 7 years of swim team experience. including HS swim team, making the State Team, winnning SJ League meet. and swimming year-round for most of my life. i could live in the water.

 

[mk]

Yes.

 

[Electric Amish]

I can't swim very well. I have a phobia of getting water on my face/in my eyes. I can't even put my face under a running shower.

Very, very few schools around these parts have swimming pools. I only know of one that has one for sure, and that's because it's the HS that my father went to.

amish

 

[notfred]

<< I can't even put my face under a running shower. >>



??????????????????????

So, how do you wash your face/hair, then?

 

[911paramedic]

Wooohoooo!

It is a great skill to have (swimming) but not everybody is raised around water. I was in the Navy and there were people in my boot camp company that couldn't swim :Q
I was fortunate to spend every summer in Hermosa Beach in LA when I was growing up. My grandfather was one of the original lifeguards there in the 20's so it was not as if I had a choice, lol.

Hermosa Beach Lifeguards, 1920's <---my grandfather, ~100K

 

[FoBoT]

i need to teach my daughters or else send them to swimming lessons

 

[Electric Amish]

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<< I can't even put my face under a running shower. >>



??????????????????????

So, how do you wash your face/hair, then? >>



I wash my hair with my back to the shower and then I lean my head back into the water.

I rinse my face after washing it with a wet washcloth.

amish

 

[pcmodem]

Yo,
I can swim well, having spent my teenage years on the beaches of Southern Cal.

Have noticed that a LOT of Northern Cal folks cannot swim.
-PCM