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 Posted: Mar 22 2013 at 4:43am |
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where was everyone else? |
this is what I want to know. How u drown at a place full of people? didn't nobody know how to swim?
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Posted: Mar 22 2013 at 4:45am |
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oh and I nearly drowned when I was 6-7 and I tell you from experience...that is one of the worst feelings. The pain in my lungs was unreal. My mother immediately put me in swimming classes.
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Posted: Mar 22 2013 at 4:51am |
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I've taken swim lessons twice in my lifetime and still afraid of water.
I took classes when I was about 12 years old and again as a student at Howard. It was actually a requirement to graduate.
At the end of the day, yes I know how to swim, but I don't go swimming often.
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Posted: Mar 22 2013 at 5:22am |
Miss SDY wrote:
Wow..
I just signed up for swim lessons to begin on April 27. I can't swim but everyone else in my family can. I was scared to learn but I really need to learn in case I'm in a situation where I need to save my own life.
That's sad that he drowned. But drowned at a party with people... What were these ppl doing that they didn't notice a drowning person?? |
Congrats on facing your fears. Swimming is fun. You'll love it. 
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Posted: Mar 22 2013 at 6:47am |
my swimming skills are intermediate. i think id be fine in a swimming pool, but in an ocean, pond or river i may be in some trouble.
my future offspring will definitely be getting swimming lessons as early as possible. that is one of those things u have to learn early to not let your fears limit you.
i remember i almost drowned once at this swimming pool in P.G. County. when i was like 10. i was dumb enough to jump off the diving board. i took some lessons after that. :)
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Posted: Mar 22 2013 at 6:54am |
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Though I had swimming lessons throughout elementary school, I actually "taught myself" how to swim, just like I taught myself how to ride a bike.
I was at a pool party at the local rec center and all the kids were swimming and having fun, while I was in the shallow end with my floaties. I was so embarrassed to not be able to swim but I was fronting like I could, but just liked using the floaties.
To "prove" I knew how to swim, I got out of the pool and did a canon ball without floaties, and while under water I just kicked and treaded. I came up like, wtf, im not drowning? But I played it off like it was every day ish.
In hindsight I realized using floaties helped me learn how to tread water, and once I learned treading, it wasn't hard to use my arms and legs to swim.
A few months after that I was passing swim tests so I could go into the deep end and dive off diving boards.
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Posted: Mar 22 2013 at 6:55am |
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In other hindsight thinking, why the hell did my mom let me to go the pool when I didn't know how to swim?
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Posted: Mar 22 2013 at 6:56am |
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How did he end up in the water is my question? Was he pushed by friends that wasn't aware he couldn't swim? Did he accidentally fall in? If I couldn't swim there's no way I would get into the pool
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Posted: Mar 22 2013 at 7:02am |
Random Thoughts wrote:
Even if you cant swim, I recommend getting your
kids lessons....Not only is it fun and good exercise, but its a survival
tool.
Nearly 60 percent of African-American children
cannot swim, almost twice the figure for white children, according to a
first-of-its-kind survey which USA Swimming hopes will strengthen its
efforts to lower minority drowning rates and draw more blacks into the
sport.Stark statistics underlie the initiative by the national governing body
for swimming. Black children drown at a rate almost three times the
overall rate. And less than 2 percent of USA Swimming's nearly 252,000
members who swim competitively year-round are black.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24411271/
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Posted: Mar 22 2013 at 8:26am |
Random Thoughts wrote:
Is it still mandatory for schools to teach kids how to swim?
I remember in elementary school, every year for a week, we'd go to the swimming pool down the street for half a day of swimming.
This might have just been a Florida school initiative.
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not in my district in MI in HS (i went in tn), we had to learn to "swim" but all the black girls magically had their period. i didn't learn until i was in my 3rd yr of college and it was a graduation requirement. it sucked then but Im glad i know
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