I do, I love swimming.

How about you? Do you love swimming?

How often do you go? How long do you swim for?

I swim 3 times a week, for an hour each time. I do between 1km and 2km each time depending on how much energy I have.

It's so low impact and just the perfect activity when the weather is hot for both enjoyment and exercise.

What do you guys think about swimming? I love it.

Where do you go swimming? At the beach? A public pool?

Do any of you have your own pool at home?

What's your stroke of choice?

Are you a good swimmer?

Do you like to swim in the morning, daytime or evening?

LOVE swimming

just never go

I love swimming.

My favorite is a freshwater pond or lake, but the ocean or a pool will do just fine.

I don't really know how do the strokes besides the side stroke. I just like to swim around and be in the water.

ZombieKitten said:

Nearly everyone in Ramsay Street had a pool in their back garden. Don't you have one?

PunkMistress said:

I never swim in freshwater ponds or lakes, although I have swum in waterfall wash pools, or whatever they're called. I'd be open to swimming in ponds or lakes though because I love swimming.

What's the side stroke?

Black people don't swim, for the most part.

I love to swim.

I live beside a beach so in the summer I'm there swimming as often as I can.

Fauxie said:

nope

ZombieKitten said:

Wha? You're turning my world upside down here.

weused2luvhim said:

Do they not? Why not?

Fauxie said:

but I don't LIVE on Ramsey Street

JustErin said:

ZombieKitten said:

But somewhere like it, right? In Australia? People come and go in your kitchen and help themselves to orange juice?

I don't know how.
I nearly drowned as a child.

sammij said:

I thought growing up that everybody learned to swim. Here in Thailand I found that most people, including my wife, really can't swim much and haven't ever been taught.

Fauxie said:

they do drink milk straight out of the container, if that helps
but we don't let people in, generally

Fauxie said:

none of the master and his family can
I've only just enrolled my guys in an intensive program, realising last week that my kids are VERY VERY behind for their age

Fauxie said:

That kind of a thing is a luxury.. At least for me.
Everyone knew how to swim but me.

sammij said:

Never too late to learn.

My wife won't let me teach her though. She's so stubborn about stuff like that. I just let her get on with it now, doing doggy paddle or holding a float and just kicking her legs.

Fauxie said:

the master SINKS he doesn't understand how people like me float

(haha yes I have inbuilt floaties )

Yeah, I'd rather not look like an idiot flailing in water.

I love swimming. I was a lifeguard for 8 years, all through high school (public pool) and college (University's rec. center). I was also certified as a Water Safety Instrutor so I could teach swim lessons, which I did for 7 years. I'm not necessarily fast (we didn't have a swim team) but technically, my strokes are very good.

Sadly I don't get to swim much anymore. I don't have enough money for a membership to a gym fancy enough to have a pool (in NYC). I never really liked swimming at gym pools anyway -- they are always too crowded. I only like to swim in chlorinated water, but not if it's overly so. For example, if when I ask the manager what the ph balance is or when the last time they backwashed and vacuumed the pool, they give me a blank stare, I don't swim in that pool.

My favorite stroke is the front crawl -- but instead of breathing on the same side with every stroke, I prefer to breathe every 1.5 strokes so you alternate sides.

ZombieKitten said:

I don't have huge breasts but I can still float. Mon doesn't understand how that works that I can lie there, just floating. When you can swim you just feel so at home in the water and it makes it look easy. Before that it seems like such hard work!

jone70 said:

Cool! We'll shortly sign up for a combined gym and pool membership that lasts 6 months and costs around $180 per person for unlimited use. I know we're lucky as far as being able to get it that cheap.

I don't think I'm an excellent swimmer but I'm very comfortable in the water. I turn my head on EVERY stroke when doing front crawl. That's probably completely wrong isn't it? I've always done that though. My breaststroke is lazy (I'd say economical) too. I don't get my head under the water at all, I glide pretty flat. I've seen Thai folks here doing breaststroke in a way that looks correct but there seems to be no forward motion, just up and down. I'd rather just glide forward. My style hurts my neck sometimes though.

Swimming used to be a huge part of my life. I swam and dived competitively as a kid, did water ballet every summer, and earned an advanced lifesaving certification when I was in high school.

Years ago, I was still swimming a couple times a week - a half mile or mile depending on how much time (and energy) I had. And the place where I work has a pool, so I could go anytime. Unfortunately, in the last few years (since I've been doing more theatre), I've hardly swum, at all. I don't have time after work when I'm rehearsing a show, and it's just too hard to put myself back together if I swim in the middle of the day.

Fauxie said:

People misunderstand floating -- it doesn't mean you have to be perfectly horizontal. Sometimes floating might be at a 45 -65 degree angle. It depends on the person's center of gravity; but people get hung up on thinking they have to be exactly supine.

Last week I saw another foreigner at the pool. This girl (I would guess English) was so lithe and tall but with some muscle definition too. She dived in and proceeded to swim non-stop at nearly double my pace for about 30 minutes until a whole load of kids arrived and made it tricky. I want to be able to improve to that level! I found out she's training at a Muay Thai place near here though so she's obviously super-fit.

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i don't know how to swim.