Anyone on here not know how to swim?

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Oweo

That's Racist

I remember years back there was a big family gathering on the Red River.

Bunch of kids and adults.

Kids were playing in the river, adults on be shore.
No life jackets. None could swim.

One kid went over an underwater ledge. Struggled and grabbed on to another one.

They went over. One by one they tried to grab onto the next one. None of whom could swim.

They’d struggle then go under with the rest.

The adults stood on the shore, unable to swim.

7 kids of various ages drowned.

It blows my mind how people will be around water deeper than they are and not have a least a basic idea how to swim.

I want to say 7thWard actually told us one day that he can't swim

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.

I feel like this is a question that was probably answered in that Ask a Black Guy Anything thread a while back

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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.

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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.

I can swim but I’m terrified of the water so I won’t go in. When I was 6 I got caught in an undertow and nearly died. They had to resuscitate me and all of that shite. I have never been able to get over it.