do you know how to swim?
155287
Yup - I was born close to the ocean and learned to swim before I learned to walk. I LOVE the water!! I couldn't recommend swimming more - it's fantastic!! I've even gotten my SCUBA certification (if I could recommend anything more than swimming, it would be SCUBA diving)!
177419
Swimming is a build up sport.\nstart off slow say 20 laps(without stopping)\ndo that for a week.\nNext week try 25 or 30. \nJust keep building it up.\nYou will eventually be fit enough to swim a few kms if you want.
1211
no, unless you can swim in carbon dioxide gas
636356
eeeeeeeeeeewww.. haha jk swimming is fun!
887311
It's an ongoing work, problem is people when they reach a reasonable point in skill they stop pushing themselves really hard, which is what you probably need to do more. Also going to the gym and working on the muscles used in swimming can also really improve your swimming.
702921
swim and swim and shake my little fin and dive and dive and do the butterfly!- we used that as ours- :)
839993
Swimming is your best option, but if you don't have access to a pool that kinda womps.
48446
I like swiming\nI have acceptable velocity
932739
Don't worry, if it's your first swimming practice ever then they're gonna teach you all that stuff there. You don't have to worry about being overwhelmed or anything. \nThe flipping under water to change directions you do it later on not at the beginning, at first it's ok to just push off the wall again.
129124
the basic of swimming is that u must breath in i.e fill ur stomach with air then streach ur legs nd hands nd start flapping them like a bird(only legs) nd as far as ur hands r concerned move them in the backward direcion like dis(ur hands->,<)\n\n 1 <(position of ur hands in the forward direction)   then             2 >(backward direction)
454904
with lessons..\nIt is the hardest stroke to learn..\nalas when swam correctly can look quite beautiful...\nI suggest you get someone to teach you...\nits a stroke that every one has there own technique...
1072877
Get a few people and run (yes, run the best you can in the water) around the edges together with your arms extended out on both sides. Push your self as hard as you can through the water, and when you get tired, float around the edges until you've got strength again.
1004016
It's never too late to learn.  If you have a fear of water, start out slow by playing in a wading pool or somewhere there is no pressure.  Once you get comfortable, then you can learn how to swim.
571975
No way all you need to know is how to swim it and then it is a brezze. All you have to do is swim the first 50 with the pack, then swim the middle hundred fast, and bring whatever you have left home on the last 50.
406471
i did it in 5 months swimming monday to friday, 2 hrs\n\nand i did more than that and im only 11
245989
You're never too old to learn how to do something. You can go to your local YMCA or check with park districts or city colleges in your area. A lot of these places offer swimming lessons at little or no cost.
547096
You could use a clock to help your students understand. Show them that you swim a quarter mile every fifteen minutes. It might help. I do know it helped me understand.\n\nAll the best and HAPPY TEACHING c",)