How many of you can/cannot swim?

[Roberto Dinero]

That's crazy.

I've never really been good at sports, that's why I never post in the sports forum but I've always been a good swimmer. I've known how to swim since I was about 3.

Swimming pools and the sea have always been mad fun to me. Back in the day we used to spend all day at the swimming pool in the summer.

 

[DemureNatural]

I'll be 30 this year and I'm taking swimming lessons for the first time! I love the water. I'm half way through it! Previously I could swim on my back and doggie paddle! I'm so proud of myself! This summer, I plan to take surfing lessons!

 

[Malta]

Been swimming since day 0, best swimmer out the gate and beat millions of competitors before I was even born.


I can still swim to this day

 

[Roberto Dinero]

Been swimming since day 0, best swimmer out the gate and beat millions of competitors before I was even born.


I can still swim to this day

 

[marcuz]

i think when it come to black folks, our ability to swim is almost directly correlated with poverty and location. a lot of us just didn't grow up in areas where we have easy access to pools. you go to the burbs, and every back yard has a pool. in the inner city, hey, that's just not the case. im glad my parents took to me the ymca at an early age for swimming lessons, i used those skills to save a buddy that was light weight drowning. basically used me as a life raft and almost suffocated me as well, but yeah swimming isn't even hard once you learn to float, i urge all y'all to learn if you haven't.

 

[ltheghost]

Loved to swim. Swam competitively in high school but quit the team to start training on the track team.

 

[Uncle Kingpin]

I taught myself to swim, it's not that hard. nikkas act like water gon lead back to a slave ship or something, dogs dont need to be taught to doggy paddle you should at least be able to not drown.

 

[mannyrs13]

I took lessons when I was young and been known ever since. I don't swim as much now as i used to and that's with a pool at my house. my heritage is Cuban so of course I had to learn how to swim. it was vital for some of the people's survival.

 

[Roberto Dinero]

i think when it come to black folks, our ability to swim is almost directly correlated with poverty and location. a lot of us just didn't grow up in areas where we have easy access to pools. you go to the burbs, and every back yard has a pool. in the inner city, hey, that's just not the case. im glad my parents took to me the ymca at an early age for swimming lessons, i used those skills to save a buddy that was light weight drowning. basically used me as a life raft and almost suffocated me as well, but yeah swimming isn't even hard once you learn to float, i urge all y'all to learn if you haven't.

Yeah, I can understand that.

I didn't grow up particularly rich but I always had access to swimming pools. Also my mom wanted all of us to learn so we had lessons from a young age. Also we used to spend vacations at my grandmoms house and she lived by the sea, so growing up, I was always around water in some way or other. But swimming pools was always my favourite. Also when we used to go by the beach, me and my brothers used to go fishing for seafood with my dad with snorkles and shyt

 

[marcuz]

nikkas act like water gon lead back to a slave ship or something,

even babies can naturally swim but damn

 

[Roberto Dinero]

I took lessons when I was young and been known ever since. I don't swim as much now as i used to and that's with a pool at my house. my heritage is Cuban so of course I had to learn how to swim. it was vital for some of the people's survival.

I didn't know u were Cuban. Were u trying to swim to Florida? Just kidding.

 

[Roberto Dinero]

I don't mean to offend anyone but this last Paul Mooney line he says in the video I'm gonna post always made me The Cuban brother @mannyrs13 made me think about it.

 

[Elle Driver]

My mother threw me into the water and said "this is how they do it in Africa".

I didn't even drown.

 

[Roberto Dinero]

My mother threw me into the water and said "this is how they do it in Africa".

I didn't even drown.

That's where that expression comes from. "Getting thrown in the deep end". But man, I can remember being able to swim ever since I can remember...

 

[Malta]

My mother threw me into the water and said "this is how they do it in Africa".

I didn't even drown.

My mom said I simply jumped in the pool when I was around 2, my survival instincts were clearly lacking, but that courage