I've been practicing for awhile, and I can't seem to get it right. I want to stay under the water for more water pressure so I can push myself faster and I float up. I want to stay afloat so I can paddle with my arms, and I sink. Is there something I am missing? Plus, once I lose momentum I am at a standstill. Not only that, but I can't use chopsticks properly either...
RudieCantFail said:
I can swim and use chopsticks, bitches.
At the same time? Now that's talent.
Can you believe I'm still single?!
That's insane. You'd think you would have hooked up with some Asian swimmer chick or something by now.
/flag
Well, it's more that my superior able-to-swim-and-use-chopsticks genes are just screaming to be passed on to the next generation. My spawn will undoubtedly rule the world.
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edith
France
April 2006
JUL 25, 2007 02:57 AM
how do you grow up in carmel by the sea and not know how to swim?
I can swim but nobody, I say NOBODY, wants to see me wearing just swimtrunks - my skin is pale blue!!!!
Oh yeah, I can't swim in public swimming pools cause I;m allergic to chlorine - I may as well be allergic to custard!
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Vampirate
Durham, NC
October 2004
JUL 25, 2007 03:43 AM
This is so weird to me. Do you guys mean "can't swim" as in "can't perform an efficient, well-formed Olympic-style swimming stroke", or do you mean "all I can do is thrash around in the water, and if someone doesn't save me, I'll drown"? Is it the kind of thing where you can't even dog paddle a little bit?
RudieCantFail said:
I can swim and use chopsticks, bitches.
At the same time? Now that's talent.
Can you believe I'm still single?!
That's insane. You'd think you would have hooked up with some Asian swimmer chick or something by now.
/flag
Well, it's more that my superior able-to-swim-and-use-chopsticks genes are just screaming to be passed on to the next generation. My spawn will undoubtedly rule the world.
No doubt. When the world is completely flooded (as predicted in Kevin Costner's Waterworld, then stolen by Al Gore), and there's nothing to eat but Top Ramen, you and your family will be the only ones to survive. And you will have the entire water-consumed world to yourselves.
Vampirate said:
This is so weird to me. Do you guys mean "can't swim" as in "can't perform an efficient, well-formed Olympic-style swimming stroke", or do you mean "all I can do is thrash around in the water, and if someone doesn't save me, I'll drown"? Is it the kind of thing where you can't even dog paddle a little bit?
Every once in a while, I see a question on the internet like, "Am I the only one who likes Predator 2 more than Predator?" and, as I stare incredulously at my monitor, find myself hoping and praying that no one responds in the negative. And, invariably, someone says no.
Thinking about it, swimming uses a pretty complex set of muscles and motions. Just one of those things I guess that's just a ton easier to learn when you're little, and is gonna be pretty tough when you're older. Seriously, someone not being able to swim feels like someone not knowing how to walk, it's that ingrained in my head.
Also, I learned to swim with my mommy holding me afloat. Thank you mommy.
edith said:
how do you grow up in carmel by the sea and not know how to swim?
well hell, that's a stupid question.
why?
are you serious?
yes. WHY IS IT A STUPID QUESTION?
like him living by the sea means he should know how to swim.
it was just dripping with pretentious patronization. oh wait, i forgot who i was talking to.
ShikiTohno
Carmel By The Sea, CA
July 2007
JUL 24, 2007 09:42 PM