Swim Poll!

[the_rev]

Poll #1075 Swimming!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12

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Regarding me and large bodies of water...

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I would drown.
1 (8.3%)

I would not drown. I know how to swim just enough to save my own life.
4 (33.3%)

I do okay. Nothing fancy.
3 (25.0%)

I swim pretty well.
3 (25.0%)

Gee, I'm a swell simmer! Watch!
0 (0.0%)

I swim/have swum competitively.
1 (8.3%)

Are you kidding? I am/was a lifeguard.
0 (0.0%)

Swimming lessons?

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I have never had a lesson.
2 (16.7%)

I had lessons as a kid.
10 (83.3%)

I had lessons as an adult.
0 (0.0%)

I teach/have taught swimming to others!
0 (0.0%)

I was taught by...

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No one. No one loves me.
0 (0.0%)

I don't recall how I ever learned.
0 (0.0%)

I taught myself.
3 (25.0%)

Someone threw me into the deep end and that was that.
0 (0.0%)

My parents.
0 (0.0%)

Another relative/friend.
2 (16.7%)

An instructor.
7 (58.3%)

A cute lifeguard.
0 (0.0%)

Flipper.
0 (0.0%)

My interest in swimming is...

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None. It's wet.
3 (25.0%)

I can take it or leave it. Mostly for hot days.
4 (33.3%)

Swimming is good times for safety, fitness and recreation.
4 (33.3%)

I'd love to learn/currently practice synchrnoized swimming!
0 (0.0%)

I'd love to/currently swim/have swum competitively.
0 (0.0%)

I am taking/plan to take lessons one day.
0 (0.0%)

I watch/plan to watch silly instructions vids on teaching yourself to swim and go to a pool and do a crummy backstroke while the lifeguards point and laugh!
1 (8.3%)

Comments

[mrkinch]

Oh, I'm sure they're not pointing and laughing.^^

After early trauma I never learned to swim properly but I enjoyed paddling about in the ocean as kid. As an adult, I never touch the stuff.

[the_rev]

Sometimes I do catch them looking at me funny, esp when I go late and there's hardly anyone there. ^ ^

Did you or his dad teach the kid or send him to lessons or?

[mrkinch]

Briefly, one summer. Didn't take and there was some ear difficulty or something. Also, you know how cold the summers are here! I'm reasonably certain he can't swim.

[nutmeg3]

I liked playing in the ocean as a kid, when we went to visit my grandmother in Atlantic City, but I don't enjoy swimming itself, or pools, or, if it comes to that, being out in the sun.

[the_rev]

The pool we go to is indoor! And new. Right next to the new equestrian center! It's quite nice. I hate the sun, too.

[stewardess]

I was sent to swimming lessons when I was around five. I was too short for the shallow end, but my mom made me go. I was full of despair, since I spent the classes trying not to drown. Luckily, I learned I could spend the class clutching to the young lady in a bikini who was the instructor. I learned to float, and to "steamboat," which was lying face down and kicking your legs. I also learned to appreciate ladies in bikinis. ^^

When I was 9, my dad moved into an apartment with a HUGE pool. I spent the next three years in that pool, and became a fish.

I'm not a speedy swimmer, but I'm very comfortable in the water, thanks to that pool. I love to swim underwater.

[stewardess]

Regarding natural bodies of water: the ocean and rivers in my part of the world are too dangerous for swimmers. Around the age of ten, I went swimming in the Pacific and my swimsuit was nearly ripped off by the currents. It wasn't until I was an adult and went to Mexico that I enjoyed swimming in the ocean. The best swimming of all was in the Sea of Cortez. Amazing!

[the_rev]

I particularly appreciate ladies in full bathing suits. I don't like bikinis.

Speaking of, that last sentence, just sort of glanced at it and I thought I read "I love to swim in my underwear". ^ ^

[mprice]

In the last one, I clicked none, but I just don't want to be seen in a bathing suit.

[the_rev]

I guess I should have thought of that! I don't want to either. The captain and I swim in board shorts!

[ederyn]

I'm rather disappointed that no one was taught by Flipper or a cute lifeguard. Damn Hollywood for always deceiving me!

[the_rev]

I know, right!? I should have had a question about relationships with swim instructers and how many people ended up making out with their swim teachers in a calm lake on a moonlit night.

It would happpen in the movies!

[wystii]

We actually had swimming in highschool as a sport/PE subject. I could swim the width of an olympic size pool once, but usually had to be rescued once I got towards the deep end lengthwise. I suck at floating hence the drowning answer.

[the_rev]

We had swimming in highschool too but I sat out that quarter. :)

I think some people are just more floatational than others! I have a lot of trouble treading water. I can do it but I can just barely keep my face above water. My friends can keep their sholders above water with hardly any effort!