View Full Version : How old were you when you learned to swim?
J.R. Hudson
10-05-2005, 02:12 PM
My son recently started 'official' swimming lessons; at 5 and a half years old I feel like i"m getting a late start. Although I think I was a late swimmer and turned out to love surfing, sailing, swimming and being basically a waterdog (a strong swimmer)
My son has 'Been' in the pool since he was born but with supervison and floaties, etc.....
Then I started thinking about:
Baby Swimmers as my sister-in-law puts it (I cant stand this woman) and realized; learning to hold your breath and SWIMMING are to different things. I understand the benefit of the program that childen get into a early years but my beef is when people say "I learned to swim when I was 2!"
I'm like "Noooo. You learned to hold your breath." Physically getting into the pool, swimming and getting out are two different worlds."
I know there are anomolies but generally speaking as always
http://www.babyswimming.com/images/Alex_B.smile.jpg
blckhawk542
10-05-2005, 02:15 PM
Again...from the other thread you made that says the same thing..minus the poll
I started swimming around 3 years old...my mom gave me those floaty things on my arms and im like..YAYY!!! then I learned to hold my breath at 5....then learned to open my eyes in the water..after i learned that.....swimming pools and hot chicks in them would fear me in the water...muuahahhaha
:thumbsup:
tankgirl
10-05-2005, 02:17 PM
I have no clue when I learned to swim. But that is a great picture. And your son is adorable. Congratulations... I think 5 is the perfect age to learn to swim!
Isaac_Brody
10-05-2005, 02:18 PM
I was a late swimmer at 6. But I'm actually more dense than water and can't float. I can swim, but when I'm in the water it's like I'm swimming with weights. :cry:
J.R. Hudson
10-05-2005, 02:23 PM
I have no clue when I learned to swim. But that is a great picture. And your son is adorable. Congratulations... I think 5 is the perfect age to learn to swim!
Not my kid Tank Girl! My son has more skills than this.
:cheesy:
tankgirl
10-05-2005, 02:26 PM
Ah! I just thought it was you dunking him in the pool when he was 2!
tankgirl
10-05-2005, 02:28 PM
I'm not good at kid ages... my cousins are enormous. They are 4 & 5 and about a foot shorter then my staggering 5'4" self. Unfortunately, I didn't get any of the height genes.
krestofre
10-05-2005, 03:39 PM
I must be a really late bloomer. I didn't learn to swim (really swim that is) until like 10 or 11.
pookie_old
10-05-2005, 04:06 PM
I learned to swim seconds after my brother threw me out of the boat...
I hope today's a better day...
I learned to swim before I was born, my Ma was a big girl!:)
Jack Daniel Stanley
10-05-2005, 04:40 PM
I was 5 and wound up being on the swim team from the time I was 7 through highschool.
Now if I lay by the beach too long, endangered animal groups try to role me back into the ocean.
MattinSTL
10-05-2005, 09:02 PM
Wanna' hear something funny? My first cousin is Kane (the WWE guy) and he tought me to swim in the creek behind the farm-house he grew up in... there was this bend in the creek where the water got too deep to touch... we would always walk the creek looking for geodes (spelling?) and in the summer we'd wade in it... finding crawdads and interesting rocks. I wouldn't say he actually "tought" me to swim, but he made sure I didn't drown when I finally braved "the bend".
Tim Miller
10-05-2005, 09:14 PM
Wanna' hear something funny? My first cousin is Kane (the WWE guy) and he tought me to swim in the creek behind the farm-house he grew up in... there was this bend in the creek where the water got too deep to touch... we would always walk the creek looking for geodes (spelling?) and in the summer we'd wade in it... finding crawdads and interesting rocks. I wouldn't say he actually "tought" me to swim, but he made sure I didn't drown when I finally braved "the bend".
Holy crap your cousin is Kane! I used to watch WWF back in college, that's great! I learned to swim last summer....sad, I know.
J.R. Hudson
10-05-2005, 09:20 PM
Wow
3 People cant swim?
pookie_old
10-05-2005, 09:36 PM
Well if they're in NY, you can just walk across the river.
Cryogenic Filmworks
10-05-2005, 10:06 PM
Took lessons in first grade I believe, after almost drowning the previous year at camp. I guess lifeguards are good for something other than looking at. :)
Steve Strickland
10-05-2005, 10:21 PM
I think I knew how to swim by the age of four. At least that's as far back as I can really remember in my life, and I can't recall ever not being able to swim. I grew up on the Chesapeake Bay. Knowing how to swim wasn't an option.
J.R. Hudson
10-05-2005, 10:29 PM
LOL
Excsue me; even thought I know what you mean it just sounds so damn dramatic:
" I grew up on the Chesapeake Bay. Knowing how to swim wasn't an option."
Nice prose
GenJerDan
10-05-2005, 10:29 PM
Had like 0 body fat until I hit 20 or so...sank like a rock, so swimming was more of an effort than I thought it worth.
I've since become...um...er...more buoyant, but have no desire to dip my tootsies in anything larger than a bathtub.
I can keep from drowning. For a time. But I wouldn't call it "swimming", so I'm one of the 3.
Grew up a mile from the ocean, too. :grin:
fixitinpost
10-06-2005, 12:54 AM
I learned when I was 7.... I think. I just remember failing my first swimming class.
BLUESPIDER
10-06-2005, 01:29 AM
I swam all the way from Cambodia! :)
13 years old
Daniel Skubal
10-06-2005, 09:46 AM
We had a swimming pool in our back yard. I apparently started swimming when I was 6 months old.
I learned when I was 7. I live in the middle of a flat-land
XCheck
10-06-2005, 05:16 PM
I learned around 6 or 7.... but I can't remember when I learend skiing - must have been two or three. But I grew up in a hillbilly area with little water and lot of hills - so I guess it comes with that territory.
blckhawk542
10-06-2005, 05:27 PM
My dad jus threw me in the water once and was like...CMONNNN!! SWWIMMM TO MEE!!! CMONN!!!
...many many times did i swallow half the pool..eventually i got to him....thats when i learned doggy paddle.
Terry_Lasater
10-06-2005, 05:35 PM
My dad jus threw me in the water once and was like...CMONNNN!! SWWIMMM TO MEE!!! CMONN!!!
...many many times did i swallow half the pool..eventually i got to him....thats when i learned doggy paddle.
Sounds like you had some fun this Summer. :)
blckhawk542
10-06-2005, 05:36 PM
Sounds like you had some fun this Summer. :)
..this summer?....He did that to me when i was like 3....lol
Terry_Lasater
10-06-2005, 05:38 PM
..this summer?....He did that to me when i was like 3....lol
Therein, lies the humor. You're so busy throwin' down the latest lingo that you forget to notice the wit of others. :happy:
blckhawk542
10-06-2005, 05:39 PM
Therein, lies the humor. You're so busy throwin' down the latest lingo that you forget to notice the wit of others. :happy:
..now that i re read your post....HA....HA......HA......im totally laughing my ass off.....lol