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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:04:19 PM EDT
I just got back from testing out for my Lifeguard Cert.
We started talking about adults who never learned to swim. That seems strange to me, I don't even remember learning to swim, I just always did. Where I live, everybody learns to swim. Kids start lessons at 3, or before. Water is everywhere, from the Lakes, to the Ocean, to the pools in every neighborhood...and many backyards. Does anybody NOT know how to swim?  Poll to follow. |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:05:00 PM EDT
[#1]
Like a fish
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:05:05 PM EDT
[#2]
With you? Anytime.
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:05:19 PM EDT
[#3]
+1 Like a fish 
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:06:51 PM EDT
[#4]
Swim, and um, drink like a fish. I never undrstood how other people couldn't learn how to swim.
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:06:53 PM EDT
[#5]
+1 btw, the cornell swim test is just an excuse for the coaches to see what everyone looks like with their shirt off so they can tell who's ripped and ask them to try out for the crew team. but you didn't hear that from me 
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:07:51 PM EDT
[#6]
Used to be like a fish, though... 
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:08:04 PM EDT
[#7]
Doesn't surprise me
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:09:28 PM EDT
[#8]
Also. Swim team Life guard Every stroke including butterfly |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:10:33 PM EDT
[#9]
I used to swim and scuba dive, but not anymore.
I've got a bad back and my left leg is only partially functional, so now I swim like a chunk of granite.
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:11:31 PM EDT
[#10]
I can, but I'd rather stay on dry land and lift heavy objects over my head.
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:11:36 PM EDT
[#11]
10 years in the Navy.
Certified DiveMaster. So yeah. Sort of. 
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:12:09 PM EDT
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I never have been able to swim good, almost to the point of not being able to at all. Never had the need to really. As a kid my parents never went to the beach and we were to poor to own a pool. The only time I swam was when we visited my grandparents who had a pool when I was five. and that was n't often.
Just recently I applied for an LEA and my biggest hurdle is actually the basic swim test. I've been going to the local public pool with a friend to relearn and practice and I think Ill be ready. PS the only thread ive ever found were this fits in.
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:12:59 PM EDT
[#13]
I used to be a lifeguard
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:13:22 PM EDT
[#14]
 I test 5-10 year olds out in the water. Let me tell you... They all look alike. 
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:13:46 PM EDT
[#15]
yes, but some ways better than others.
Sidestroke, breaststroke, backstroke, no problem. Standard crawl I just basically end up kicking and going nowhere.  So I pretty much end up always doing something like the sidestroke. |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:14:00 PM EDT
[#16]
Do you remember your times?
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:14:29 PM EDT
[#17]
I like to scare people at the local pool by sitting on the bottom for 2-3 minutes.. works everytime...
Master SCUBA diver and avid spearfisher and lobser hunter.. |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:15:09 PM EDT
[#18]
IM sent.
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:17:26 PM EDT
[#19]
Since before I was born. I was the fastest!
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:19:50 PM EDT
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Swam competitively for the better part of my years and had several full ride offers from Division 1 colleges during highschool.
Today, I fucking hate water based upon all the years I spent freezing my nuts off swimming during all seasons of the year. I can swim like Forrest can run. I'm out of shape and I have to I can still gut it out and go for a very long time. |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:19:57 PM EDT
[#21]
I did not learn till i was 14 just decided to go to the pool one day and taught myself
we then got a pool I used to swim quite a bit when i lived at home hell did not learn to ride a bike till i was 16 i lived on a farm and i drove a truck or rode a ATV everywhere really no reason to ride a bike Now i ride 2-3 times a week |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:21:40 PM EDT
[#22]
No, it was a loonnnggg time ago. 1975 on the swim team and I only swam freestyle competitively then. Really picked up on the rest of it more hardcore when I was a lifeguard one year in the Corps and had to teach swim lessons. I have never swam butterfly for time. I only swam my senior year in HS because I was trying to break the record in the 200m(track) and was getting close. Thought it would keep me in better shape. It did actually, endurance wise but didn't really get my speed down. I think I was around 56-57s in the 100yd freestyle 23.4 in the 200m for track Really ripped during swimming though. On Saturdays we used to do 7200yd workouts. Oohrah!
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:22:02 PM EDT
[#23]
I grew up on a lake as a kid, then moved back and bought a house there.
So yes |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:22:59 PM EDT
[#24]
Certified Rescue Diver
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:23:26 PM EDT
[#25]
I'm a decent swimmer.
My wife can't swim at all. Told me she could doggy paddle, so I dragged her out a ways into the lake and told her to doggy paddle while I caught my breath. I let go and she sank like a rock. I grabbed her and tried again, sank like a rock again. I finally managed to get both of us back to shore. Her dad can't swim either. He spent 20 years in the Navy and can't swim a single stroke. 
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:27:13 PM EDT
[#26]
I taught myself by swimming across the river several times
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:29:38 PM EDT
[#27]
That is a VERY good time, for the 70's. Actually, very impressive. Was the 100 your distance? It seems that you are a good sprinter, remember your 50? |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:36:02 PM EDT
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How does one NOT know how to swim? It is something you can learn from your god damn family pet for christ sakes. SWIMMING LESSONS WITH FLUFFY: 5:30- 7:00 MON-WED
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:37:55 PM EDT
[#29]
Think I remember being in a pool at about the age of 3? Certainly by age 5.
Just one of those things some of us grew up doing. On the swim team in middle/high school. Did 5 dives & several more snorkal trips in Aruba last week. Every news story about someone drowning, I wonder Why? It seems so simple, assuming you know how. ( & barring extenuating circumstances.) |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:40:23 PM EDT
[#30]
swim! Hoo Yah 198!!
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:41:48 PM EDT
[#31]
not really
i sink can kinda float.....thats about it |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:44:31 PM EDT
[#32]
Learning to swim came quick and easy, but I did have trouble getting out of the gunny sack.
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:46:17 PM EDT
[#33]
You are from Florida... Thats how it is here too. I'm surprised when I am approached by adults who want to learn to swim. Or adults who aren't water safe. Seems strange to me. |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:46:47 PM EDT
[#34]
Same here. I grew up in a beach town, their was no swim lessons. Going into the ocean every day in the summer, you learn to swim on your own
. I was a beach lifeguard for three summers, best times of my life. However, my wife grew up in the same town as me and she swims like an anchor . I don't know what happened there.Good luck with the cert.. |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:48:11 PM EDT
[#35]
When one grows up swimming from birth, like others and myself here have done, it is very hard to nderstand that someone else can't swim because it seems so easy IMO. In Coast Guard boot camp we had several guys that almost drowned the first time we hit the pool and had a swim test
Two guys from New York and another that could only dog paddle, The NY guys sank like rocks and the dog paddler got exhausted. They had to get up every morning for a couple of weeks at 0430 and go to remedial swim training, they picked it up after that though.
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:49:27 PM EDT
[#36]
same here
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:54:00 PM EDT
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I got it.  I have every cert available. I collect them. USA Swim ASCA Level 3 CPR for the professional rescuer First Aid + (several different cards) Safety Training For Swim Coaches and now Lifeguard Training and First Aid. PLUS annual drug tests, and FBI background checks.
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Posted: 2/21/2006 9:54:22 PM EDT
[#38]
NOt until I was about 9. I hated pools deeper than my head, and still do to this day. I have to concentrate on relaxing, then I float like a cork,,,err, like a river barge filled with helium balloons
. Backstroking is about all I can do well.I still remember each of the 3 times I nearly drowned in a lake by the age of 5. BIG fear of lakes. I still don't go to them because of the un-even bottoms. |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 10:01:09 PM EDT
[#39]
I learned how to swim a very long time ago. I haven't swam in a long time but I'm sure I can still keep my head above water.
I would never swim in the Gulf of Mexico or Intracoastal Waterway around here. These waters have things in them that eat you. Being a cop, I've seen what people do in the pools, late at night. Won't swim in a pool either.  I'll swim to save someone or myself. That's it. _________________________  |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 10:02:32 PM EDT
[#40]
Well then,  congrats, you little fish you
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Posted: 2/21/2006 10:02:34 PM EDT
[#41]
Hell yeah! I'm a FISH!
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Posted: 2/21/2006 10:17:24 PM EDT
[#42]
Yes, and I can swim with a full load of Aircrew Gear too
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Posted: 2/21/2006 10:18:43 PM EDT
[#43]
I am a very good swimmer. Like a fish.
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Posted: 2/21/2006 10:23:43 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/21/2006 10:57:48 PM EDT
[#45]
Well I can swim...
Learned in a pool when I was young. It was hard for me. I remember being forced to go under... Had me scared to take lessons and try new things. Finnaly found someone that wouldn't force me. Took a year or so to become good. I still can't float on my back... Probably never will. I love to swim just almost never do. |
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Posted: 2/21/2006 11:08:23 PM EDT
[#46]
My older brother fell off a lake dock at 6 and was rescued from drowning by a family friend. Two days later we found ourselves in swim class at a private pool (pouring rain at night...nice start). After that, it was swim team all the way.
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Posted: 2/22/2006 12:19:25 AM EDT
[#47]
Here it seems that parents want the kids water safe, as soon as they can walk. The kids I pull out of the water, are usually 2-3 years old, who have had some swim lessons. The parents are overconfident. |
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Posted: 2/22/2006 12:28:09 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/22/2006 1:06:02 AM EDT
[#49]
5 black people voted?
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Posted: 2/22/2006 1:18:23 AM EDT
[#50]
parents taught me to swim by dunking me....
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