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Can You Swim?
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So many people seem unable to and I never understand why. Is it just a matter of confidence?
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My mum was a distance swimmer so I think I could swim before I could walk. Like my mum I was a distance rather than a speed swimmer although I was my school's junior champion in the dim and distant past. All my family are swimmers and wee Daniel ( great- grandson of 5 months) has already been in the pool with his mum and dad.
11:53 Mon 19th Jun 2023
I can't...and I have both confidence issues and a fear of water.
As a teen, my local high school was a brand new building that had its own pool...not common then.
The few of us who couldn't swim were stuck at one end...I don't recall actual lessons. It was difficult to see much as it was poorly lit, and I couldn't have my glasses on...so a rather uncomfortable situation for me. I think I eventually skipped those lessons.
As a teen, my local high school was a brand new building that had its own pool...not common then.
The few of us who couldn't swim were stuck at one end...I don't recall actual lessons. It was difficult to see much as it was poorly lit, and I couldn't have my glasses on...so a rather uncomfortable situation for me. I think I eventually skipped those lessons.
I love swimming, and can never remember a time when I couldn't, I swim daily. I do understand many people won't swim or cannot, I feel it is because of family life, if parents don't swim, they tend not take their children swimming and a kind of fear of the water forms in the next generation. When I'm at the coast I love to swim in the sea but settle for the pool here. A lot of people have problems with putting their head in the water (not me as my avatar shows ;) ) and it stops them from learning to swim. A friend of mine goes out foreign regularly, puts pics of herself by the pool with a cocktail but for the life of her, if she fell into the pool she'd drown as she cannot and never did learn to swim - such a shame as I feel it is a great way to start the day or just spend a few hours a day. So many water activities if a person could attend a swimming class and learn
tha twas lucky for you Tilly, where I go, bus loads of children come at all hours of the day from schools to learn, it's great to see, I am usually home by then and see the buses heading up to the local swimming pool. if I don't want to be cordoned off by the classes, I need to be out of the pool by 8.30am or go in the evening after 4p.m
I am quite adept at swimming, I must say. I acquired this invaluable skill during my formative years, and it has indeed served me in an extraordinarily advantageous manner. Possessing this proficiency instils a sense of self-assurance when in the vicinity of aquatic environments, be it a sophisticated lido or whilst embarking on a nautical escapade.