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Print this entrySwimming Question of the Week - June 9, 2009
Two-part question this week but should be pretty simple:
When did you start swimming, and did your initiation to swimming involve organized lessons?
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Since I posted this... I'll get it started. My Mom was visiting this past week and some people were asking her about when I started swimming. At 11 months, she was putting my face in water in a bucket. :) Not sure I'd call that organized or not, but I got started young. |
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OK. I've gotta ask...why was she putting your face in water in a bucket? I grew up in Ohio, too, and I know they had some pools there:) |
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I think we were still living in PA at that point. ;) Just getting us used to having our face in the water I guess. I'll have to get more details and maybe that's a future DOTW. Anyone have any newborns handy? |
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my father told me i began swimming when i was 3 weeks old , i have been leaving my baneo and floated on my back , but realy swimming and getting coach , 120 min. trianing when iwas 2 years old , and until now( iam 10 years ) |
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Not till 37 years old and then only because my kids started and I wanted to get in with them. Had been thrown in twice as a kid and was petrified of the water. First two lessons had me sitting on the side just dangling my feet in the water to start overcoming that fear, in a public session. The others in the pool probably had a good laugh at my expense but my teacher was absolutely brilliant and perseverd with me at my pace. She did once say she need a calendar rather than a stop watch when I was kicking across the width! :) |
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At age 6 at the beach in sunny Italy, used to spend my summertime literally "in the water", always open water, long swims in wonderful Sardinia sea, and I just can't stay away from it |
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At the Mariemont pool in Cincinnati, Ohio when I was 4. Then into YMCA swimming |
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I lived across the street from the local YMCA. I was swimming at age 5 and know that I was in the learn-to-swim program at the Y, but can't remember any of the lessons. I was on the Y swim team by age 8 and was helping to teach lessons at 11. |
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I was 42 when I started swimming (June 2008). I've been taking my kids to the YMCA for lessons, I decided to jump in and did a length. Never knew what I was missing all my life. |
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I grew up in California and took Red Cross lessons (must have been 3) at Orange Coast College and later that year we moved to Coronado. My kids learned to swim in Germany, where lessons seem to be a little more serious - breast stroke is the preferred starter stroke here. When I returned to Coronado to visit my mom one summer I signed up my kids and took a trip down memory lane when the instructor had them do 'monkey-plane-soldiers'. |
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I started with lessons as a youngster here in Minnesota. The interesting story is how I was introduced to club swimming. My backyard neighbor had a pool and I sometimes went over to swim with him. His mom told my mom to get me started with the local club team. I remember jumping in the first day and swimming butterfly, which I'd never seen. I hated practice with a passion and was ready to quit. My friend's mom told my mom to have me hang on until the first meet. I swam my first competition and was hooked. I couldn't get enough of it. I thought about swimming all day long. After college, I came back to Minnesota and got into coaching (always knew I would coach). One day, I was at a local meet and noticed my backyard neighbor (the one with whom I swam club for many years) coaching a team from Wisconsin that traveled to the meet. A year later, he took a job with a Minnesota team and we began meeting once or twice a week to talk about swimming and what we were doing in the water. Fast forward to now and I am coaching the same team with him. So, I started swimming because of his mom, swam with him for most of my career, and am now coaching together. Quite a full circle. |
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Oh, and my mom said I could basically stand after I was born. It was a foreshadowing of things to come as my legs were my biggest weapon in swimming. |
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I started at 7. My very first coach was a very cool Russian lady. The first ever swim lessons was teaching us to float and to be on our own in the water. Her method was to trow us into the water the middle of the pool (no line lanes) and when we manage to survive-swim close to the edge she would push us with a long bar back to the middle of the pool, hahaha. The parent were terrified, we hated it too. But she was a tough cookie and the second best trainer I ever had. |
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Sprinter, was that in Pennsylvania? |
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I didn't know there was a Pennsyvania South Africa. Is that near Cape Town? ;) |
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Somewhere there ;) |
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I beagn swimming at 4 months old in Lake Erie with my parents and in the family pool. I did not have formal swim lessons and began swimming competitively when I was in 10th grade,...after I was cut from the JV basketball team. It might have been the best thing to happen. Swimming has allowed me to participate in two college sports (swimming and water polo), and to coach a lot of talented individuals over the years. |
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I started at age 43 & now at 51, learned flip turns. Mostly learned swimming from goswim newsletters, DVDs & watching others, not much organized coaching as the coaches gave up on me [as I was terrified of the deep & did not learn to tread water]. It was a long, hard & lonely struggle for 5 months, the main reason, I think was, that only 40 minutes of pool time was allowed a day & it took me that much time to muster up the courage to try something new, but never could as the time was up! Then the next day again I would start from scratch..... & so on.... After 5 months of perseverance, I could swim a breadth!. Then after 5 years of swimming only in lane 1 [ so I can grab the side wall any time], now I have improved a lot, thanks to drills & can swim 3 kilometers non stop [ only in the pool though & not in open water & I am quite slow ].
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I got forced into the water at around 6 years old, and then got forced into competitive swimming at about 10 years old. Hated every second until high school, when I learned it's just as much about friends as it is about racing and taking care of the one body you'll ever get. So grateful now for the years my Dad made me stick to it. |
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I did not know how to swim nor I had never taken a stroke when I entered myself in my first swimming race at age 4. It was our community Labor Day Festival on a Lake and they had swim races for kids of all ages (with ribbons and trophies for the winners). They took the swimmers who were racing out in the Lake in a boat and dropped you off on a dock where you raced from. I wanted to swim in these races so badly like the bigger kids that I got in the boat and rode out to the dock, before anyone in my family saw me (in my Mom's defense, she had four kids with her and she thought my oldest brother was watching me, but he was flirting with the girls instead). When the starting pistol was fired for us all to race, I jumped in and immediately started to sink to the bottom of the lake. Fortunately for me there was an attentive lifeguard that came and saved me. But they still gave me a ribbon--I WAS HOOKED! Then the next week my parents had me in organized swim lessons. |
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I start swimming since I was a kid, but never did it seriously and correctly, until last year, about 30 years of my age, swimming become so relieving and stress reducing and also become challenging that you want to be faster and faster, that you should learn to do it correctly to do that |
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I STARTED SWIMMING WHEN I WAS 3 YEARS OLD ....
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