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re: Anyone on here not know how to swim?
Posted on 2/1/18 at 1:49 pm to Salmon
Posted on 2/1/18 at 1:49 pm to Salmon
I can’t imagine watching my children, or even kids that weren’t related to me, drown and stand there whooping and wailing on the shore instead of at least trying to do something.
I mean, throw something that floats, stick a limb out to them, something.
I mean, throw something that floats, stick a limb out to them, something.
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Posted on 2/1/18 at 1:51 pm to LSUZombie
I can't
Posted on 2/1/18 at 1:51 pm to fr33manator
The current in the river is stronger than you think. I don't think the adults on the shore had that much time to react. The kids probably never came up again once they went under.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 1:53 pm to LSUZombie
Maybe it's just because I learned so young, but I don't remember ever not knowing how to swim. It seems kind of instinctive to me. I did take lessons at one point, but that wasn't because I didn't already know. It was just to work on my technique and form.
This post was edited on 2/1/18 at 3:30 pm
Posted on 2/1/18 at 1:53 pm to LSUZombie
Deathly afraid of it.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 1:54 pm to Salmon
When I moved to Baton Rouge and bought a house with a pool I had to take swim lessons as an adult at Crawfish. That lady (Nan) that teaches the kids is really nice to the kids. She's down right mean and hurtful if your an adult and don't listen. After a week with her I still can't swim, but if I fall in the pool I can swim to the edge and not drown.
So put me in the category of not being able to swim.
So put me in the category of not being able to swim.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 2:00 pm to LSUZombie
Everyone doesn't float equally.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 2:07 pm to LSUZombie
I feel like this is a question that was probably answered in that Ask a Black Guy Anything thread a while back
Posted on 2/1/18 at 2:11 pm to LSUZombie
I used to go fishing with my grandfather till he was in his mid 90's. He never learned to swim but wore his life jacket most of the time. It used to scare the hell out of me.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 2:13 pm to Salmon
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I still don't call what I do "swimming" It is more like "not drowning"
I have had to take a few swimming tests in my life, from observing others this seemed to be the case for a lot of the people that said they knew how to swim.
This post was edited on 2/1/18 at 2:14 pm
Posted on 2/1/18 at 2:14 pm to Salmon
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I didn't know how to swim till I was like 18. To learn I purposely jumped off a tree into a small river. I still don't call what I do "swimming" It is more like "not drowning"
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Salmon
oddly, name does not check out
Posted on 2/1/18 at 2:15 pm to Salmon
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have not figured out how to tread water. That seems like fricking magic.
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Salmon
Posted on 2/1/18 at 2:41 pm to Salmon
I can swim in a straight line but can't stay in one spot without sinking.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 2:49 pm to LSUZombie
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Been swimming my whole life and to this day it strikes me as odd when a grown, able-bodied person says they can't swim.
I realized some people never learned, but I assumed it was all super impoverished people with no access to a pool or something.
Then I met my wife. She CAN swim, but only if she absolutely needs to not drown. She gets no joy out of the deep end of a pool. I think they even had a pool at one point when she was growing up and she still didn't get proficient.
My dad coached a youth swim team. Even though I didn't swim as a kid competitively (sister did), I was always around it and still swim several times a week for exercise.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 2:51 pm to LSUZombie
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Lay your arms out to your side and either pedal your legs like you're on a large underwater bike or move your legs back and forth in a scissor motion. Easy peasy.
Neither of these work
Posted on 2/1/18 at 3:28 pm to shotcaller1
That doesn't make sense. Are you panicking and being spastic? Do some people just have a different body composition to where they aren't as buoyant?
Posted on 2/1/18 at 3:30 pm to shotcaller1
Most people that don’t know how to swim are the product of in vitro fertilization. They didn’t have to swim as sperm to fertilize the egg so the trait never got passed on. Darwin at work.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 3:32 pm to shotcaller1
None of my grand parents knew how to swim. My mom didn't learn how until she took me to swim lessons and the instructor explained the importance of it.
I think the reason people drown is because the fear of their face/mouth/nose going underwater causes them to panic, flail about, wear out, and swallow water.
The key to floating is to submerge as much of yourself so that the water displaces your mass. If you let that happen, there's a good chance your chin and maybe even mouth are going to be below the surface. If you're cool with that and lightly kick your feet and wave your arms, you can tread water for a LONG time.
In college I took swimming as an elective and to get an A we had to tread water for 45 minutes with our hands on our heads. If you let your body sink down in to the water with just your eyes and nose above, you don't have to fight so stay there hardly at all.
Being comfortable in the water is the key.
As with most things in life, it will all work out if you don't panic.
I think the reason people drown is because the fear of their face/mouth/nose going underwater causes them to panic, flail about, wear out, and swallow water.
The key to floating is to submerge as much of yourself so that the water displaces your mass. If you let that happen, there's a good chance your chin and maybe even mouth are going to be below the surface. If you're cool with that and lightly kick your feet and wave your arms, you can tread water for a LONG time.
In college I took swimming as an elective and to get an A we had to tread water for 45 minutes with our hands on our heads. If you let your body sink down in to the water with just your eyes and nose above, you don't have to fight so stay there hardly at all.
Being comfortable in the water is the key.
As with most things in life, it will all work out if you don't panic.
Posted on 2/1/18 at 3:33 pm to Peazey
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Do some people just have a different body composition to where they aren't as buoyant?
I have heard this about the "non swimmers"
Posted on 2/1/18 at 3:34 pm to Peazey
Rumor has it that Carl Otis Trimble didn't know how to swim.
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