Who taught you to swim? How old were you?
@rainbow2007star (920)
February 15, 2008 2:07am CST
I was 8 and we were in holidays with some parents. There were a lot of children around.One of my cousin older than me taught me how to swim. This doesn't mean that my mom and my dad haven't try but I think it was the time that I was ready to learn to swim.
Which is your favorite style of swiming?
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@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
19 Feb 08
I don't know how to swim. I manage to float on my back a few times, but only in rapid waters, in any other case I go down like a rock... The fact is I never had the chance to learn, I never was in any water higher than my chest.
@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
21 Feb 08
I never went to a pool because... well... there is no point in going to the pool when you don't know how to swim, does it?
I don't really like cooking up in the sun, so I don't like to spend my vacation at the seaside. I was only once on a beach, but during the spring, in a college field trip, to look at the beach morphology and the sedimentary processes that occur on the shoreline.
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@rainbow2007star (920)
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20 Feb 08
Does thia mean that you have not been in the sea or in pool ever?Thanks for response
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@GardenGerty (160940)
• United States
17 Feb 08
I did not learn to swim until I was in college. I was seventeen, and took swimming as a college level PE class, because I had to have one. I was really glad I did it too.
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@rainbow2007star (920)
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18 Feb 08
Better late than ever don't you think? Thanks for response
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@ssh123 (31073)
• India
15 Feb 08
My mother when she was 5 she learnt swimming in a pond near her parental home in a village. I am an hydrophobic. My wife learnt swimming from her father by practicing in a well. My son went to a swimming pool but came back after a few days saying he is not keen. I never got into a pool of water till now.
@rainbow2007star (920)
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15 Feb 08
sorry to hear that. It's a great pleasure for the body and for the mind to swim.Does it happen something bad to you related with water when you were little? how does the doctors explain it?Thanks for response
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@academic2 (7000)
• Uganda
15 Feb 08
There was this fast flowing stream that divided my village with the next-it was our common bathing place-the waters were usually fresh and soothing in the hot August sun of my country-here we would not just bathe, we would also swim-it was here that I learnt how to swim!
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@CAMILLERI (373)
• Australia
15 Feb 08
I was born in a small island surrounded by water.
I learnt to swim at the age of three.
My favourite stroke is free style.
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@suehan1 (4344)
• Australia
15 Feb 08
my dad taught me to swim when i was very little,probably around 4 years old.i was swimming a 50 metre pool by then.when we were a lot littler we nearly lost our cousin in a pool accident and dad just kept making us swim until he felt confident that we would survive.i love the back stroke the best.cheers sue
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@jennyjones (6)
• United States
15 Feb 08
when i was a baby my mom already engaged me into swimming when i began to learn swimming but as of the moment, i havent been in to swimming. I love the backstroke.
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