Hey brehs and brehettes could u swim

[Gold]

If you’re over 15 and can’t swim you’re pathetic. Dumbest shyt I heard was my mans who is 24 doesn’t know how to ride a bike

I guess i'm pathetic

 

[Dr. Acula]

I can swim. I didn't know how to swim until I was 12. I was in boy scouts and I think it was first class scout or star scout where you needed to have certain merit badges as a prerequisite.

So, a prospective eagle scout, who I think needed to help a lower ranking scout to qualify for eagle, actually helped me learn how to swim. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I'd meet this guy as a Jewish Community center and he would teach me how to swim well enough to earn my swimming merit badge. I can't remember what the requirements were to earn it when I was in scouts but here are the current requirements ..

1. Do the following:
   a. Explain to your counselor how Scouting’s Safe Swim Defense plan anticipates, helps prevent and mitigate, and provides responses to likely hazards you may encounter during swimming activities.
   b. Discuss the prevention and treatment of health concerns that could occur while swimming, including hypothermia, dehydration, sunburn, heat exhaustion, heatstroke, muscle cramps, hyperventilation, spinal injury, stings and bites, and cuts and scrapes.
2. Before doing the following requirements, successfully complete the BSA swimmer test: Jump feet first into water over the head in depth. Level off and swim 75 yards in a strong manner using one or more of the following strokes: sidestroke, breaststroke, trudgen, or crawl; then swim 25 yards using an easy, resting backstroke. The 100 yards must be completed in one swim without stops and must include at least one sharp turn. After completing the swim, rest by floating.
3. Swim continuously for 150 yards using the following strokes in good form and in a strong manner: front crawl or trudgen for 25 yards, back crawl for 25 yards, sidestroke for 25 yards, breaststroke for 25 yards, and elementary backstroke for 50 yards.
4. Do the following:
   a. Demonstrate water rescue methods by reaching with your arm or leg, by reaching with a suitable object, and by throwing lines and objects. Explain why swimming rescues should not be attempted when a reaching or throwing rescue is possible, and explain why and how a rescue swimmer should avoid contact with the victim.
   b. With a helper and a practice victim, show a line rescue both as tender and as rescuer. The practice victim should be approximately 30 feet from shore in deep water.
5. Do the following:
   a. Float faceup in a resting position for at least one minute.
   b. Demonstrate survival floating for at least five minutes.
   c. While wearing a properly fitted U.S. Coast Guard–approved life jacket, demonstrate the HELP and huddle positions. Explain their purposes.
   d. Explain why swimming or survival floating will hasten the onset of hypothermia in cold water.
6. In water over your head, but not to exceed 10 feet, do each of the following:
   a. Use the feet first method of surface diving and bring an object up from the bottom.
   b. Do a headfirst surface dive (pike or tuck), and bring the object up again.
   c. Do a headfirst surface dive to a depth of at least 5 feet and swim underwater for three strokes. Come to the surface, take a breath, and repeat the sequence twice.
7. Following the guidelines set in the BSA Safe Swim Defense, in water at least 7 feet deep*, show a standing headfirst dive from a dock or pool deck. Show a long shallow dive, also from the dock or pool deck.
   *If your state, city, or local community requires a water depth greater than 7 feet, it is important to abide by that mandate.
8. Explain the health benefits of regular aerobic exercise, and discuss why swimming is favored as both fitness and therapeutic exercise.

I eventually got my badge and could swim well enough at that point.

 

[Karb]

Yeah I can swim

 

[staticshock]

Ehh I can a lil bit


It took me till the last day to pass the swim test in boot camp.

That Friday they said if you don’t pass they sending us home..all the white boys and Mexicans were on the bench cause they passed Monday, but most of us brehs were sitting by the pool Friday cause we didn’t know how to swim

 

[mr.africa]

i remember going to a outing as 5 year old with my kindergarten
and the talk was that there would be a big ass swimming pool.
swimming was always something that intrigued my little ass along with dinosaurs.
anyway,we arrived at the destination, first thing i do is take off my shirt and jump in.
my little dumb ass didn't know that you needed to know how to swim to be able to swim.
long story short, i drowned, one of my best friends (asian kid) jumped in, rescued me
apparently i was out cold for 5 minutes, i woke up and see a teary-eyed kindergarten teacher and my classmates.
i think to this day my parents don't know that i almost drowned

a few years later, in grade 2 my friends taught me how to swim.
end of story.

 

[ProfessionallyTrill]

Like a fish. Diving board give me all of that

 

[DropTopDoc]

Yes, i forget when i learned, but competitively swam from like age 7 or 8 through high school (shout out to Chicago South Swim Club, go tigersharks) also played waterpolo in high school

 

[BlackAchilles]

I can, haven't gone in a while tho

If a dog can swim there's no excuse for an adult human not being able to

 

[Nymbus]

kinda
I don't go in lakes ponds,rivers etc though.

 

[VertigoKnight]

Swimming would be part of our sports classes at school. Plus my dad would take us twice a week.

 

[Womb Raider]

Just learned to swim at 24

 

[Cel 510 kid ados forever]

Just learned to swim at 24

.gud fam

 

[Detroit Wave]

dad pushed me into the pool at 6. been a swimmer ever since.

 

[At30wecashout]

I'm like a character from the old gta games. I'm gonna die the moment I hit the water.

 

[Address_Unknown]

Can't float but can swim underwater and come up for air.

If you can do that competently, then you can float. Hell, DEAD bodies float and the concept behind it ain't hard to master; it's simple.

Just relax and be, and you will float. The fear is making you sink and tense and go under. Try floating on your back to build up some confidence then you can learn how to tread water and float, but it's easy.