The Turtle Way
By andreea
@andreea_v (240)
September 17, 2021 4:51pm CST
As I was (still) thinking about that amazing pool with warm water, I was wondering how many people like to swim with their head underwater.
I personally don't like to have my head underwater! When I was little and I took swimming lessons the teacher was pretty scared and forced us to immerse our head underwater, or jump and swim in a 2m swimming pool when we could barely hold on to the flippers and move our feet! After one lap without flippers i got out of the pool and never wanted to finish learning swimming.
That experience made me hate swimming for a long time.
10 years later, I was at the seaside and a family friend was nice enough to learn me how to swim with my head above the water, the turtle way :) This is the name I knew for this style, the breaststroke.
And getting back to the present where I love swimming so much that I wish for a swimming pool!!
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8 responses
@kareng (59050)
• United States
19 Sep 21
@andreea_v Oh I know how and had lessons growing up, I just don't care for it as much as other things.
@andreea_v (240)
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19 Sep 21
So you all must be very good swimmers!!
I never knew you could teach kids to swim so young!! 
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@oahuwriter (26777)
• United States
18 Sep 21
Swimming is so cooling too. Our family liked picknicing at the beach, digging for clams ( so fresh & delicious), and I'd wade in the shoreline just about shoulder deep. The fresh ocean air, cool ocean waters until, one day, a sandpaper like feeling brushed my calf!!! I ran out of the ocean so fast. Turned to look at ocean, and never went back into ocean ever again. Only sharks have sandpaper skin. 
I was 8 years old then, I'm going to be 67 soon.
I was 8 years old then, I'm going to be 67 soon.1 person likes this
@andreea_v (240)
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19 Sep 21
Woaaaww!!! What a story!! 
I believe you!!! I wouldn't go in after an experience like this. I recommend a swimming pool, a lot safer and without sharks
I believe you!!! I wouldn't go in after an experience like this. I recommend a swimming pool, a lot safer and without sharks 1 person likes this
@JustPerla (38)
• Romania
20 Sep 21
I like water and usually at any pool i go I try to se if I can make it all the way underwater.
Once or twice I even try to swim undre water face up.. Yaa boy o boy water on to my nose..
I know it's not much my record is 1 min 45 or so at 2 m under
Or aprox feet 6m dive (jump directly from boat) I geved up due to pressure to my ears
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@andreea_v (240)
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21 Sep 21
I bet you got a lot of water up your nose!! I find that very unpleasant, and I don't like my nose to fell sore
@RebeccasFarm (89741)
• Arvada, Colorado
17 Sep 21
I do not mind my head under the water at all. I am a fish
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