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Swimming

Individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water Website

Approval Rate: 70%

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    cyclee

    Fri May 08 2009

    I have always loved the water, but I have this fear of being in the deep water that immediately makes me forget how to swim, and I'd just sink and sink... until the world went dark and my last thought was, oh well, I guess that would be the end of my life.. then I floated and there was the sun again. I repeated that a few times until I figured out that I wasn't really going to drown in a pool that was 3 feet deep.

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    fitman

    Fri May 08 2009

    Depends on how you define 'childhood'. When I was little, my parents took me to a river and did the holding me under the tummy thing while saying, "kick", and tried to get me to float on my back by yelling 'relax!' at me*. All they succeeded in doing was scaring me half to death. Living on my own in New York, I finally decided I should know how to swim, so I learned at the Y at age 21. Since then, I swim 3 to 4 hours a week, and love it. Makes me feel like a kid when I'm under water (I can do 50 meters without coming up for air). *To this day, if I relax, I 'float' right to the bottom of the pool.

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    lix0d3d3

    Sat Nov 08 2008

    In the summer there'd be morning swimming lessons, fllowed by an afternoon swim when the pool would close for cleaning and we'd be sent home grumbling.. to come back for an afternoon/evening swim... a pass for a month was around $20 and you had a 'spot' near the deep end that no one was allowed to put their towel on... small, crappy cement pool, a heavy smell of chlorine, cold showers in rain or shine :)

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    zuchinibut

    Fri Jan 25 2008

    Swimming was usually a great time, but it wasn't always perfect for me. I was the "husky" kid and had a lot of self confidence issues with the shirt off. It probably wasn't until high school that I was able to say "screw it," and not care about being in public with my shirt off.

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    vudija

    Tue Feb 27 2007

    I actually didn't know how to swim as a child (and barely can now), so I rarely saw the water.

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    jamie_mcbain

    Tue Feb 27 2007

    For me, it's more like drowning, since I couldn't swim very well.

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    graymalkin

    Sun May 22 2005

    I still love to swim, I learned to swim in the Atlantic Ocean and I have always lived near the water, I think I have a piece of seaweed behind my ear right now! We used to go to the Keys a lot and my hair was always very long, my mother made me wear those rubber bathing caps that I hated. One had little rubber flowers all over the top of it with a strap that went under the chin and snapped to the other side, it was hideous! I had a pair of sneakers in the dryer the other day and the smell took be back to the days of that odious bathing cap and joy of spending long days on the beach and getting as brown as the outside of a baked potato.

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    helmut

    Sat May 21 2005

    I really don't mind swimming but, when I was younger my mom used to make me wear sunscreen. Now this may not sound that bad to you but let me tell you. I hate sunscreen. I loathe the way it feels on my skin. The smell makes me want to throw up and my face reacts to anything over SPF 5 or so. I guess its just some weird overly effective Pavlovian reaction from being forced to wear sunscreen as a child, but I still have a adverse reaction to the image of swimming to this day.

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    randyman

    Thu May 19 2005

    One of my best friend, who lived across the street from me, had a pool. We spent a lot of time in his pool, but it's funny, because he never really learned how to swim, despite the fact that he had a pool. I loved it. I'm no world class swimmer, but I do alright.

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    mad_hatter

    Thu May 19 2005

    The house that I grew up in, we had a pool in the back yard with a spring loaded diving board. My friends, family and I always jumped off it doing cannonballs, trying to get the biggest wave going in the pool.