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Ruby


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It was funny to move here, so close to the beach and so many people can't swim. We always had a pool in our backyard growing up, so I always knew how to swim, dive, etc...

My son learned at daycare when he was about 4. Emily can do the doggie paddle pretty good. Three days left of lessons, but she is the only one swimming so far!

Go E go!

How about you?

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This is going to sound odd, but I THINK I can swim.  It's been so long I just honestly don't remember weirdface.gif

I know I can't dive.  But I beleive I was actually an ok swimmer in high school.  Have never been in the water since then though.



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yes. but I am astounded at how it tires me out now. I mean I used to swim laps and laps and laps when I was a kid. I think that'd about kill me right about now.hmm

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eh- i never did well in classes i took. but i believe i do enough to get by. But I am def not a strong swimmer.

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I can't swim. We were too far out in the country to come to town for swimming lessons and the ponds and stuff around home were not the kind of thing you would what to swim in. So, I just never learned. I've made it this long, I guess I'll go to my grave not being able to swim.



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cry I am sad, I love to swim and we spend a lot of time in the water. The kids love it! I hate that some of you do not have that experiencehmm

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oh i used to get in the water quite a bit. Just wasn't graceful smile

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I can swim, but I know that I am so out of shape that if I had to swim to save my life I'd probably die.... hmm.gif

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I've never seen an ocean. The closest I've been to one is Alabama and Vegas.



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Well Darlene if you come here you will see the water for sure!smile

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I'm pretty lucky, very close to the beaches, Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard..... but all in all, I don't swim in the ocean that much.  I'm more like stay on the shore type of girl....

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Yeah I do not like to swim in what I can't see!

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I run in just to my waist splash around to cool off, and out I come.

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yes, i can swim. i know that the major universities in NC require you to pass a swimming test before you can graduate. i know that it's stupid, but i don't make the rules.hmm

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You have to prove you can swim to graduate business school? weirdface



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yep. if you don't pass the initial swim test, you have to take a class and pass that.

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Yes, I can swim, and i must have been a fish in a previous life with as much as I love it and yearn for it. smile

When I was very little my dad took me out to a big raft in a lake on his back. Once on the raft, he picked me up, threw me in the water, and jumped in after me. He stayed close and kept saying, "swim, Heather, paddle your hands and kick your feet, you can do it." In sheer terror I paddled toward him and he kept moving back - after awhile I realized I was swimming. Not a great way to learn, but it was hard to keep me out of the water after that. He taught me everything I knew, even helped me qualify for swim team, and it is ironic because he learned how to swim from his family dogs!

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I took swimming lessons when I was a kid, I could swim to save my life but am not a strong swimmer.

One of my swimming lessons turned into an anatomy lesson for my whole class. We were expected to jump off of the high dive and the life guard would catch us so to speak....well on my way down I tried to catch her instead, I remember having something smack me in the face and then I surfaced with a bikini top in my hands. omg.gif

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...and a class hero was born biggrin.gif

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What do you mean those weren't floatation devices!!!

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I can do it for a while....but I panic often in the water when swimming...I better learn since I've committed to doing a triathalon within the next 12 months...and one of the tri's is swimming (Not a long one a mini-tri)

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sgmorrell wrote:

I can do it for a while....but I panic often in the water when swimming...I better learn since I've committed to doing a triathalon within the next 12 months...and one of the tri's is swimming (Not a long one a mini-tri)



Wow, that's an amazing way to challenge yourself! If I may ask, what makes you nervous about being in the water?



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garougal wrote:

sgmorrell wrote:

I can do it for a while....but I panic often in the water when swimming...I better learn since I've committed to doing a triathalon within the next 12 months...and one of the tri's is swimming (Not a long one a mini-tri)



Wow, that's an amazing way to challenge yourself! If I may ask, what makes you nervous about being in the water?


never reallky had to swim for a long distance, its more anxiety not nerves...I can hang out in the water for a long time...just the swimming part, making sure I breath right...etc



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Is it the not wanting to put yur face in the water or just the coordination of movement? Just curious...I always found it fascinating why people had reactions to water or swimming. I used to teach classmates how to swim in high school.



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garougal wrote:

Is it the not wanting to put yur face in the water or just the coordination of movement? Just curious...I always found it fascinating why people had reactions to water or swimming. I used to teach classmates how to swim in high school.


I can dive under water....not really sure what it is......if I did I face it and overcome it

But I do know this is my 2000th post!



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sgmorrell wrote:

garougal wrote:

Is it the not wanting to put yur face in the water or just the coordination of movement? Just curious...I always found it fascinating why people had reactions to water or swimming. I used to teach classmates how to swim in high school.


I can dive under water....not really sure what it is......if I did I face it and overcome it

But I do know this is my 2000th post!



Yay! Congrats!



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I love to swim! I always have. I never got to go to camp or be in little league or anything like that when I was a kid, but I did get swim lessons. But I stopped right before I would've started on the YMCA swim team. I can't remember why now, though.

I also love to snorkel. I can't scuba though, I have a problem with breathing the air out of the tank.

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I can't do the breast-stroke tho. my man boobies are too small.cry I'd drown...

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Yep, I swim all the time when we're at our cottage, but I found out a couple of years ago that I can't swim too long without getting really tired now....so now whenever we got out in the boat, I wear a life jacket all the time just in case. 

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I love swimming. I am not a great swimmer by any means but I love the ocean and I love seeing the hot guys and gals in swimwear. lol


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