DarkAngelBGE Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 When was it? Describe your experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 t was a long time ago. All I remember, it was a pool at a AmericanInn hotel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quacker Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 Nope, never learned to swim...and I really don't care to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Dan Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 The first time I swam was in the Mississippi river it wasn’t a pleasant experience but I will never forget it..... It all started on a day just like any other day and I decided to swim but I was scared to then a snake slithered up next to me and said, "what are you waiting for boy" then I stood there with my head down and the snake said, "what the cat got your tongue?" and I ripped that darn cat and I jumped in the river and swam. The End. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yiuel Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 The first time I went swimming, it was in the Ocean, at Myrtle Beach. This, I don't remember, since I was too young, but my mother will forever remember it, because it was so scary for her.Well, there was that blue ocean in front of me, and I was three year old. So, I ran into the ocean and jumped in it. This is how, it seems, I learned to swin. And I probably liked it, since I still swim. I feel in water as a fish! So... But that scared my mother because I never learned to swim and I was a three year old boy at that time, alone in the Atlantic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKen132 Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 Well I probably learned how to really swim at swimming lessons at a local pool, but I've been in and around water for much of my life. My family has always owned a sailboat, and technically, I was sailing on a boat before I was even born ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeros Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 the first time I went swimming I was 4 years old, and it was in Florida.I don't remember learning to swim, I've just been able to forever.This raises questions to the many long-lived rumours that I'm actually a fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uppy Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 I learned to swim infact I did you summer swim team this year it ends Tuesday though. I was going to do the all round swim team but were going to France so I can't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 The first time I swam was in the Mississippi river it wasn’t a pleasant experience but I will never forget it..... It all started on a day just like any other day and I decided to swim but I was scared to then a snake slithered up next to me and said, "what are you waiting for boy" then I stood there with my head down and the snake said, "what the cat got your tongue?" and I ripped that darn cat and I jumped in the river and swam. The End.i have an idea, dont come on this messagebpard anymore! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uppy Posted August 29, 2004 Report Share Posted August 29, 2004 Isn't the Mississippi Dangrous? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chichigrande Posted August 30, 2004 Report Share Posted August 30, 2004 It was a warm summer day. I day, like today. It was after lunch and I went for a little dip in my grandma's pool. Actually my mom helped me learn to swim and was about 5 years young. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Op Posted August 30, 2004 Report Share Posted August 30, 2004 I used to swim a long time ago, but my knowledge of it has fallen into disuse. I still go in pools though if forced too, but I hang around in the shallow end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted August 30, 2004 Report Share Posted August 30, 2004 I have been swimming since i was like 4. I have taken more swimming lessons then i can possibly count and have even been able to use my xtreme swimming abilities to get out of a rip current once. My friend and I were caught in a rip current and we totally out did it after about 8 minutes of non-stop fighting (My friend takes junior lifeguard and is in water polo, just to let you know). The girls next to us had to be rescued by the lifeguard. Yes, it was a rip current because i have felt tons of currents but nothing came close to that one. It was really powerful. One of the reasons i swam so much and still do is because my mom can't swim and therefore forced me to go into the water when i was young so that i wouldn't have a fear of the water like she does. My favorite place to swim though would be like Hawaii. My dad and i totally free-dived like 30-40 feet in crystal clear water and got like 4 feet from a sea turtle. I even went all out and chased a white tip reef shark to get a pic. I was like 6-8 feet from it. It was xtreme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quacker Posted August 30, 2004 Report Share Posted August 30, 2004 i have an idea, dont come on this messagebpard anymore! I have a better idea! You treat new forumers with respect! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Tutankhamun Posted August 30, 2004 Report Share Posted August 30, 2004 Neat Brian. I've had a few lessons, but those were many many years ago. I can swim decently, not as good as Phelps though . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uppy Posted August 30, 2004 Report Share Posted August 30, 2004 I doubt any one one this whole website could swim as well as Phelps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCobra1 Posted August 31, 2004 Report Share Posted August 31, 2004 Probably at a pool 15 mns away from our town. I swam 50 Meters in 48 secs though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziggy stardust Posted September 19, 2004 Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 i learned in the river in my back yard but i havnt swam in it since its kind of dirty now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohirwine Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 Hmm, it was long time ago, cannot remember, but i'm sure it was in the sea... ...i know for sure i had those inflating rings you put around the arms. someone must have get them away from me and i floated and swam, i guess... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
av_nefardec Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 I took swimming lessons as a small child from when I was about five until when I was about nine. At the public pool there were classes and there were twelve "grades" that I made it through to graduate . So I've been able to swim for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dnas Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 I've been swimming (unfortunately) since I was 10 (I'm 14 now.). And it was horrible when I first learned it.I was abnormally scared of water. (I couldn't even take a shower properly. I needed a cap to keep te water out of my eyes.) So, as a result, I had never been in a pool before my parents eventually decided to send me to swimming lessons.And... it wasn't too fun. I was in the lowest level (the one for 5-6 yr olds), so it was... hard.The water was 2 feet tall at the highest.So, when the teacher said to do a 'head bob', I had trouble. I simply couldn't get my head fully covered in water. It was too shallow. And the fact that I was still insanely scared of water didn't help.But I eventaully/ got private lessons, so that helped.Had those for 2 or 3 years.Then my parents put me in a swim team so I could get excercise not only in the summer. (I am the most un-sport-ish person there is. I cannot do sports well at all, o I need it.)Stayed there for about a year and quit. Now I'm going to public pools and swimming about 4 times a week because my parents insist on me getting some form of exercise.I swam 50 Meters in 48 secs though.35 seconds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilHurdle Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 I've only swimmed a couple times in my life, big heads create a lot of water resistance, (ever notice that olympics swimmers literally look like fishes? =P) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohirwine Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 I swam 50 Meters in 48 secs though.35 seconds. Hey David: not bad for an un-sport-ish, like you.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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