What age did you learn how to Swim?  

I dont know when I learned to swim but I remember that on my first holiday that I can recal I could swim and that was when I was 4-5 years old. My father loves to swim and he was probably the one to show me how to swim.

When I was very young, my mother enrolled me in a swimming class. At the time we lived near the ocean and I think she thought I would just run into the ocean or something bizarre like that. lol

Hi usafwifey....I absolutely love to swim and I think that everyone should know how. You never know when you may need to know how and you are never too old to learn.
I learned to swim at a very young age, not much more than a baby. I lived in the water and during the summers, thats where you would find me, in the lake or ocean or pool, whereever there was water.
I was swimming competitively at the age of 8 and swam many races til I was 11. Then I went back and took all my proper badges, right up to and including lifeguard certification.
Now I am older and facing some health issues that make some activities impossible for me, but guess what? I can still swim!! It is one of the greatest exercises for people who cant do much else and my greatest pleasure. I still swim regularly
I wish you luck in learning and I have faith that you can and will learn to swim.

I forgot when I start learn swimming. My mom and dad are good in swimming, they took me and my sister to the river! Hehehe, then we start to play with the water and we love it! When I'm in grade 4 I can swim in the swimming pool. Now, I'm 20 and swimming is one of my favorite sport. I love water and feel freedom when I swim :D

hello usafwifey_opinion

i know what you mean about being able to swim like that. i think that some people are born knowing how to swim and the other people like me and you that do not know how to swim, is due to the fact that we got pushed in the pool or in my case dunked in the lake before when that i was small. so, nope, pushing somebody in the water like that, is not the correct way about teaching somebody how to swim. i can dog paddle, go under the water and float on my back is about it when it comes to swimming. i am no show off in the water at a swimming pool off of the diving board or anything like that. i guess that i will never experience what that it feels like either. lol and i love going to splash parks and to the beach as well.

take care and have a beautiful evening. and good luck to you this summer in learning how to swim.

I could not remember exactly when I learn how to swim. During my childhood, I liked to play in the water but I could not swim. I was getting serious about swimming when I wanted to enter a military school in my region. I was required to be able to swim for at least 25 meters. I continued to practice and finally can make that 25 meters :D.

very late .. i learned two years ago .. i was 22 lol so its never too late to learn
and the reason that i learned is my husband took me to a trip and we rented a house with pool so i had a lot of time in the night to spend it in this pool and that how i learned .. but the funny thing is .. i can't swim without my diving goggles ..
i put them to protect my eyes and noise but with out them I'll panic and i can't swim .. i guess i count them as my safety net ..
I'm too scared of the water going in my noise that i don't consecrate on how to swim

i want to take my daughter to learn how to swim she is 8 month now we can take mother daughter classes together ..thats cute ..lol

Hello usawifey,
I was 4 years old when I learned how to swim. My cousins had a pool and I
really had no choice. They taught me weather I wanted to swim or not. LOL

I learned to swim when I was around four, because I lived on an island (not a tropical island!) and there was a public pool probably less than twenty minutes away walking, so that was somewhere we would go all the time.

It's like learning to bicycle, or something. Everyone can learn, it's just a matter of effort - think of how many scraped knees and falls you had when learning to ride! The trick for swimming is to keep calm.

My stepsiblings also had problems where they swam so infrequently (once a year or less) that they would forget how. But they took lessons at the local pool, and pretty soon my sister was doing decently - but my brother wasn't, because he would get so scared at even floating that he would freak out and flail everywhere. So he ended up being the kid in his group who could only hold his breath for five seconds, who couldn't swim at all, etc. They took their lessons at a local pool, it wasn't that much money for them, I don't think.

I was never pushed into the water, but one time a neighborhood kid hung onto me while I was swimming and dragged me under the water. I was scared for my life, honestly, I thought I was going to drown because I wasn't expecting it and I couldn't hold my breath for long anyway!

I don't understand snorkeling. I ever used them, so one time I tried, but I just didn't get it. I would go too far underwater, to the point where the snorkel pipe would fill with water. Then it was useless! I thought, "Staying that close to the top of the water is so boring". Hahahaha.

I still don't know how to swim either. When I was younger I would go take classes at the ymca but still I have always had a fear of the water. When I was younger a friend told me a story about how her mother threw her in the water when she was really young, like a few years old. And she had no choice but to swim or sink. I am not sure why a mother would do that to a child. My friend said she would do the same to me and it freaked me out even more of the water. I hear many instances where that has worked but I just don't think I can learn that way.