Do you swim?

Yes
Not so much any more
Lazy sidestroke
No
Yes.

Yes

I can swim all day in a breaststroke.

Yes. I usually do breaststroke one way and side stroke the other. I’ve been doing the crawl since I broke my ankle but not in the water.

Do you swim? Yes
How often? Few times a year outside summer.
What is your favoured stroke? Backstroke. (Could be dirty, pet, but I’m being good!)
Can you do a fancy tumble turn? Probably not, not sure what that is.
Has a fish ever slapped you across the face? haha, sure, but not while swimming.

Yes.
All the time before I gave my boat away.
Sidestroke then butterfly
Turn like in a race?Yes.
Not yet.

Yes. I am a retired Weeki Wachee mermaid.. Mermaiding was my passion.
A fish has never slapped me in the face but they have gathered to nibble at my toes.

@KNOWITALL I love that you called me pet, it’s a term of affection up here in the north east of englandtown.
Felt it right to clarify don’t want anyone thinking it’s sexist or derogatory in any way :)

So yeah back to swimming, a tumble turn is what you do to gain time when finishing lengths of a pool, kind of a forward roll & a twist under water.
I tried it only once, banged my daft head off the wall…never again.

And,when I was a kidmaid, I could hold my breath for the entire length of the Olympic sized public swimming pool. That’s what we mermaids do.

@ucme -Regarding turns:I didn’t race on a team but could do it for gym class. We also learned to tread water which came in handy ;)

@lucillelucillelucille I can’t tread water at all, have to keep moving or I sink, bit like a shark lol
I don’t swim that often…can you tell? XD

@ucme – No.No,I can’t.

@ucme Hey, you taught me that, I just never got to use it back to you….mon petit chou. Remember what that meant? lol

@KNOWITALL I think it means i’m a cheeky bugger or something similar :D

Not anymore, and not ever very well. I was a tireless top notch treader though. I could keep my head well above water with hands only or flutter kick only, giving myself chance to rest arms or legs as needed.

I once slid feet first into water fourteen feet deep, and came out dry from the shoulders up.
One strong scissor kick prevented me from submerging, and brought me high enough out of the water to grab the pier and pull myself on up.

I have to go find that question about stupid things you did that almost killed you. We were at Wilson lake outside of Wichita. I was a teenager. I decided to see how deep it was, and to touch the bottom. I dove off the high dive and swam down and down and down and DOOOOWWWWWWWNNN. It was a LONG fucking way down. I made it though. But I almost didn’t make it back up.

@ucme My little cabbage, a French endearment. Come on, buddy, you weren’t even close….lol

@KNOWITALL Oh yeah that’s right haha i’m a proper dunderhead forget my head if it wasn’t screwed on lol

Cheers for all your answers & for those swimmers who chose not to respond, hey that’s okay, nothing wrong with doggie paddle…nothing at all.

I swim. I alternate freestyle/crawl, breast, and kicking with a kickboard. Sometimes I do walking laps also if my muscles are too achy to continue swimming.

I go through swim jags where I swim 2–3 times a week for a few months, and then barely swimming or not swimming at all for a while. I just got through not swimming for over year, and started up again a month ago.

I love it when I do it as long as the water is a comfortable temp and the outside air too.

Yes, I love to swim very much. I swim at our local public pool about 4 times a week. However right now they are closed for maintenance work, so I have to wait.

What is your favoured stroke? Front crawl and breast stroke mostly.

Can you do a fancy tumble turn? Not really, or never tried much on that..

Has a fish ever slapped you across the face? Haha. No not in our indoor public city pool.

In regards to fish, never had one slap my face, but I caught a huuuuuge largemouth bass once. My ride failed to pick me up, so I had about three miles to walk carrying the monster. I had to cross a long river bridge, and when he smelled that water he got feisty and banged against my leg the whole way. He was easily more than ten pounds, but with the activity he seemed more like thirty. By the time I got home my hand was bloody from the stringer digging into my flesh.
I have had several fish kiss my legs when swimming. When I was a kid, we spent many summer days at a lake. Fish were unafraid of the swim area, and all you had to do was stand still a minute and a school would start kissing, or slide by.
They were a very friendly assemblage.
One summer several kids got turtle bit. It took a shot at me, but it only left a pink spot, and didn’t break the skin.
Thankfully, the snakes stayed out of the swim area. There were frequently a lot around the nearby dock.
If even one ever was spotted in the swim area, that would have been it for me! :-0

We’ve got a local pool about a ten minute walk away but I don’t use it much. I mostly do the breaststroke. I can do the crawl for only one length before getting knackered.

I swim. Not usually in pools though. I typically swum out of necessity. I’ve had to pull a flooded kayak, through fast currents many times.

I’ve definitely been bumped into, by fish before. In the ocean, I’ve been hit by some pretty big fish. I couldn’t see what they were. Pretty sure I was hit by a shark once. It was big, and had like sandpaper skin. It left a big scrape on my leg, that looked like road rash.

I of course get the tiny fish, that bite your leg hair. When I kayak the Edisto, I usually dangle my legs over the side, and thousands of the tiny fish nip my legs.

Once, I was snorkeling on a reef , about a mile off of Key west. I rented a ride, on a big boat, that took about 75 people out with us. They sold these things that looked like candy bars. The idea, was to attract more fish towards you. BIG mistake. As soon as the fish realized I had it, they all attacked me. I had to hold it out of the water, because they were biting me everywhere. I eventually just threw the bar a good 20 ft away.

I get nipped by crabs all the time. Bastards can hurt. We have lots of blue crabs in our local brackish rivers. Whenever I step out of my canoe, they go after my toes.

I’m not a fan of swimming…

Grimmy, you get them crabs checked! There’s a lotion for that.

When I was a kid I swam every single day during the summer. We didn’t have a fancy water park. Just a big concrete hole full of water. It was a big deal when we actually got a slide one year.
Also swam in the lakes. Once we went to visit family at their lake cabin in Oklahoma. In the lake they had floating docks. Their kids showed us how to go under, then come up under the docks. It was a murkey, greenish, waving kind of light under there, and there were lake critters hanging from the roof and off the sides. It was cool.
I also water skied.
I also tubed. Rick threw my ass half way across the lake once! Man, that was a tumble.

Patty. Interestingly enough, I read an article that said crabs are practically eradicated, in the US, because most females shave their kitties… In fact, I’ve never been with a girl who didn’t. ..