Spin Thread: How many of y'all can't swim?

[Son Goku]

Just wondering what percent of folks on here really can't swim.


It's one thing to go out at sea or some shyt, but in a fairly shallow pool that's really sad.

If a hurricane/tsunami/flash flood came through, how many of y'all can actually swim?

 

[GooPunch]

Light work. Basic life skill checked off at 6.

 

[F*ckthemkids]

I'm a competent swimmer, but not as good as I was as a kid when I swam all the time. Older breh's remember when the inner city had pools everywhere. City pools, the Y, etc.

 

[bigde09]

Learned how to to swim at 5. Always been a strong swimmer you never forget either.

 

[Tryna Makit]

I can swim.....yes
But Gracefully tho? Nah

A whole lotta unnecessary splashing and my form is trash.
I only notice this when I'm doing laps and I see somebody just gliding through the water with grace and ease


I am self taught tho which is why my form is awful

 

[Mastamimd]

Me

 

[Money Be Green]

Raises hand

 

[Son Goku]

Me

Raises hand

Any desire to learn? What's stopping you?
I know the rumor/myth that a lotta brehettes don't learn because of their hair but the women in my family still learned.

Why don't brehs be learning?

 

[Reflected]

I can't swim, but I will make it a point to learn soon. I'm wondering if there are techniques that can be done outside of the pool in preparation for actual swimming.

 

[Son Goku]

I can't swim, but I will make it a point to learn soon. I'm wondering if there are techniques that can be done outside of the pool in preparation for actual swimming.

Outside of maybe doing flutter kicks, I can't think of many. Kicking is what trips a lot of folks up once they actually get in the pool.

Running/biking to get your cardio up wouldn't hurt either.

 

[Reflected]

Why don't brehs be learning?

No access to a pool growing up, and I didn't live near a body of water. Now I'm a military brat, and I'm sure there were pools on base, but I was never taken to the pool.

You are right to highlight the importance though, I will say it was always on a list of things to get around to, but you noting the flooding, which does happen almost once a year around here, alarmed me to the importance of it.

 

[Bar Razor]

As my parents can’t swim they made sure to give my brother and I swimming lessons when we were very young.

Living in NYC and having a lot of native New Yorker friends and associates, I’ve noticed a lot of them A. Can’t swim or B. Can’t drive. Or learn these things a lot later than people in other areas. I had an ex who learned to swim in her mid 20s by taking a class at the Y.

 

[⠀⠀⠀]

i can swim to save myself. Id gas out quick trying to save an average adult

 

[Lurkio]

my breaststroke is unfukkwithable

 

[Son Goku]

When we had to do this shyt and quickly figured out who couldn't swim.