posted May 26, 2009 09:03 AM         

swim everyday and love it to bits. not only i exercise all the muscles but also at the same time do lots of thinking and reflecting, clearing my head, relaxing etc. alone with my thoughts and private emotions. just me and the sound of water rushing in my plugged ears. then sometimes directly after swimming i go in the steamer.

posted May 27, 2009 04:36 AM         

I've thought about lifeguard training, but hadn't actually gone through with it. I'm kinda on the small side and would hate to have to save someone large and panicking, among other things.

I'm mostly into the ocean. I like lakes and ponds. But I don't shy away from pools. I rarely go to any of these places JUST to swim on some regular basis on my own initiative.

posted May 29, 2009 12:03 PM         

My mother is a swimming teacher.

posted May 30, 2009 09:09 PM         

The first was when he was 4. He dived into a lake with a life preserver on, but the preserver held his feet up instead of his head. He REMEMBERS falling out of it and falling, falling through endless water & crying until an impossibly long arm reached down toward him and pulled him all the way back up. What actually happened is that his mom grabbed his hand underwater and pulled him right side up. He has no idea why he instantly went into that dream mode.

The other is more spooky:

At 14 (IIRC) he was at an amusement water park and in a pool that made its own waves every few minutes. Having done stuff all day, he was pretty tired and when the waves came on, he realized he'd better find somewhere to stand or get out. The closest to him was a rope by the edge of the pool (the edges were too high up for anyone to climb up over to accommodate the waves), but when he grabbed it, it went down under his weight.

At this point, he accepted he was going to drown and just gave up. Then he heard an angry voice above him yelling him to get away or something. He looked up and saw a lifeguard in white trunks & blond hair pointing and demanding he leave. Out of shock & his own resignation, he simply did as he was told. When he made it to where he could stand again, he realized that lifeguard saved his life and he turned to find him, and no such lifeguard seemed to exist at all.

posted May 31, 2009 08:12 PM         

i have a good swimming story tho it's about my daughter. at 4 months i put her in water and she swam, instinctively. we didn't get back for about a year at which point she decided she was terrified of it! that included the large bath tub - had to put her in a child's tub for a couple of years!

posted June 01, 2009 09:40 AM         

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I can't swim.
My mother is a swimming teacher.

True. Story.

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I like swimming in the sea but can't swim in the pool as I have an allergy to chlorine.