LaDamaX · 15 answers · 3y

How old were you when you learned how to swim? Who taught you? If you haven’t, why not?

I think it just happened really gradually between like 6-years-old and eight-years-old. My dad taught me. I went through a phase one year where all I wanted to do was swim, and I used to argue when someone told me I had to do something else. IIRC, that's what's happening here https://imgur.com/a/rDu9bOd I'm big bitching about having to get out of my grandmother's pool. But soon after that phase, I went through a long phase where you couldn't have PAID me to go swimming.

Despite living near a sea in the first 18 years of my life, I still don't know how to swim. I tried to learn it by myself but I nearly drowned myself!

I think I was brave enough to go to the deep end when I was around 9, don't remember who specifically taught me or if I just figured it out. Does knowing how to stay afloat count?

I was too young to remember. But I always loved swimming and being in the water. Pools, beaches, lakes, oceans, puddles.

At learned it at 14, very late. Mum helped, but the most helpful tips and example was just another girl there.

Around 10. My brother and I used to go to a swimming club every week, where there were lots of people helping out. A major part of the experience was the bag of chips on the way home.

I think about 6. I took lessons in the pool of the camping where I spent my summer holidays.

14...I was in a new trial swimming PE class. I’m a very weak swimmer though. Was too terrified of the water.

I would have sank like a stone until I was well into college, taught by a girlfriend who was a lifeguard and wasn't having it, I still don't really swim but at least I can keep myself alive

I was 12. My middle school had a swimming pool and swim class was a requirement. You also needed to swim a few laps before they let you on the deep end.

I think my dad and/or mom tried to teach me when I was little? And I never really got it? I'm not sure. I also went to swimming lessons once (my aunt took me..no idea why), and all I remember from it was being terrified because they held me under water. The only kind of swimming I can do is some kind of doggy paddling.

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