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Poll: Can you swim?

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<< I couldn't drown if I wanted to. I float for some reason. >>



The irony of your name, Electrode... of course you wouldn't drown in water.
 
Oh BTW, did you know babies naturally know how to float when they're born ? It's from being in all that fluid for 9 months... then they lose that inherent ability... don't know how long after...

Don't go leaving your baby in the tub though...
 
being able to flow is a nature ability of mankind. so it would be pretty stupid if some one cannot swim.
 
I used to be able to, and did about 4 miles a day. I raced and did pretty well, never amazing but I held my own, until my shoulder started giving out. 2 years of therapy (while still swimming and competing) and one surgery later I can't swim till late summer, I still can't get my hand over my head. I haven't swam in over a month and a half, this is the longest strech since I was 8 years old. I really miss it. 🙁
You never realize how much you love something till you can't do it. I'm 18 and I feel like an old man, sitting here talking about my bum joint and the good old day...
 
I can't swim. I'm not scared of the water but I'm scared of learning how to swim! I refuse to take lessons and when my friends or family try to teach me I really hate it. And it's not like they just toss me in the water and are impatient or anything, I just can't bring myself to try to even learn. I literally start freaking out hehe. I almost drowned when I was like 5 or something so that might be why but I don't mind just being in the water.

Oh and we didn't have to learn how to swim in gym either even though we had a pool. Of course I never had to take gym in high school.

Oh and another weird thing is I don't like drinking water either.
 


<< What kind of high school has a swimming pool? Weird...

btw no I don't know how to swim... and I've never been a situation where I've need to, so until then... 😛

dc >>



My HS doesn't have a swimming pool, but the middle school down the street does, so the team practices there. Everybody teases the freshmen by telling them their class is by the pool, or on the fourth floor (our school only has three floors).
 
I can swim. My Dad taught me.

Actually the swimming part was pretty easy. Getting out of the burlap sack was tough.
 


<< being able to flow is a nature ability of mankind. so it would be pretty stupid if some one cannot swim. >>



Call it stupid all you want but being able to float is not done by just standing and waving your legs around in water. I'm a great skater (from hockey) and it's like balancing on two feet while moving forward... but I don't say it's stupid if someone can't skate.

Anyway, my big issue is with the breathing, I think most people already know the freestyle motion.

 
Yes, I live in Michigan so it is kind of hard not to know how to swim. Most people learn when they are real young here.
 
yes, my parents sent me to swim lessons since i was 5... nearly drowned 😀 but by the time i was 10 i was fairly fast. swam competitively and played HS water polo until i was 15.
 
Two out of the three middle schools in my home town have pools and both of the high schools do. I'm not really sure why that was, but we did. I was required to take swim in 7th grade and I took lessons for 5 years when I was really young. It's also tough to get to Eagle Scout without knowing how to swim. I think those are all of my qualifications. 🙂

Incidentally, the dead man's float is on your stomach with your head in the water.
 


<< I actually don't see how you can pass high school gym without knowing how to swim >>




That's very simple, since swimming has nothing whatsoever to do with high school itself, as all high schools have different requirements and different resources. Our school had a broken pool (been broken for about 20 years now) but the other major high school had one. Even so there was NOTHING about swimming in PE. In fact, there was really nothing about physical fitness in PE, it was just a way to get the kids out of their hair for an hour a day I think. Most worthless classes ever conceived of, around here anyway. I've met some people that actually did stuff in PE, but not any where around here.

I can swim, could before the navy, got MUCH better while in the navy. Haven't done it much lately although my apt's do have a couple pools.
 
definitly... I was even on the swim team for a while till I got disgusted with the speedo's (yuk!) Now I can probably stay aflot, but most of my style is gone i'm sure
 
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