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What age did you learn how to swim?
Posted on 1/8/15 at 8:28 pm
Posted on 1/8/15 at 8:28 pm
My oldest is six, and I just realized that he doesn't know how to swim.
What's a good age to start lessons? Did you take swimming lessons, or learn by trial and error?
What's a good age to start lessons? Did you take swimming lessons, or learn by trial and error?
Posted on 1/8/15 at 8:30 pm to Shexter
I can't remember a time when I did't know how to swim.
Posted on 1/8/15 at 8:31 pm to Shexter
Around 7 or 8.
Dad took me to the middle of the lake and threw me out. Said I'd either swim or drown.
Was pretty easy after I got out of that sack.
Dad took me to the middle of the lake and threw me out. Said I'd either swim or drown.
Was pretty easy after I got out of that sack.
Posted on 1/8/15 at 8:32 pm to Shexter
7 months. I was pulling down about 86k then too, in 1981.
Posted on 1/8/15 at 8:32 pm to Shexter
I don't remember. I never took lessons. I recall being in an inner tube in the shallow end at age 3 and just gradually moving to non-floatie status to treading water and going to the deep end. I had a lot of opportunities to be in the pool though. We're probably going to do crawfish aquatics for our daughter this summer (she's 3).
Posted on 1/8/15 at 8:32 pm to Shexter
It was during the Golden Age of MTV
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This post was edited on 1/8/15 at 8:35 pm
Posted on 1/8/15 at 8:34 pm to ILikeLSUToo
Lessons at 4 through about 7. Swim team until about 14. My kids the same.
Posted on 1/8/15 at 8:38 pm to Shexter
5, just throw him in the water and he'll figure it out. Believe it or not swimming is pretty instinctual but if you start too late (8 or 9) it becomes a lot more difficult. I was a swim instructor back in high school
Posted on 1/8/15 at 8:43 pm to Shexter
20
This post was edited on 1/8/15 at 8:45 pm
Posted on 1/8/15 at 8:50 pm to Shexter
I took swimming lessons when I was like 5.
Posted on 1/8/15 at 8:51 pm to Shexter
3 days after I was circumcised. 50 years later, still afraid of the water.
Posted on 1/8/15 at 9:29 pm to NewIberiaHaircut
quote:
I can't remember a time when I did't know how to swim.
This. Dad was a lifeguard as a kid so he pretty much threw us in the water early
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