Current Events > how are there people who don't know how to swim

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literally just move your limbs around in water and you're doing it
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I don't even remember learning how to swim

I remember my parents sending me to swimming lessons and I thought it was stupid because I already knew how
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there are people that can't even walk properly without being a damn goofball.
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I can swim enough to not die if I was suddenly swept into a river, but I'm also equally not going to be threatening any of Michael Phelps' records either.

It tends to be more of a factor of not panicking while in the water more so than anything else.
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I sorta went swimming back in September. The hotel had a pool that was literally five feet wide, with a 3 foot end and an 8 foot end.

It would have been acceptable if the concrete exterior of the eight foot end weren't overrun with the chain smoker gang around the clock. It was literally like they smoked in shifts. There were five or six of them and one literally lit up the second another ran out.

So I tried my best to swim in three feet of water, and ended up mostly crab walking.
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Baffles me too. All you have to do is kick your feet back and forth and either paddle or do that swim move with your arms. All you have to do is watch one person swim for like 20 seconds and you should be able to mimic the movements well enough to not sink and at least swim at a slow speed. If all else fails, just start playing "dog" where you pretend to be a dog who has to run on all fours...and just like that, bam you're doggy paddling. I was able to doggy paddle successfully the first time I ever tried to swim...and I was only like 7.

Swimming is a learned skill

Historically, a certain segment of the US population was commonly barred from swimming in swimming pools, so they never learned how to swim or taught their kids how to swim.
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yeah... growing up black literally only SOME of us knew how to swim.
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It should only take about a minute to learn how to swim if you haven't done it before.

Maybe some people have a phobia of swimming, therefore they never developed the ability to swim at the most basic level
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I cant swim. Never went to a pool in my life
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K181 posted...

It tends to be more of a factor of not panicking while in the water more so than anything else.

this

the truth is any human can naturally swim. but people don't know that, and they panic and sink. if you just fucking relax, you live.

I never learned to swim

Zikten posted...

K181 posted...

It tends to be more of a factor of not panicking while in the water more so than anything else.

this

the truth is any human can naturally swim. but people don't know that, and they panic and sink. if you just fucking relax, you live.

same for free falling from very tall heights
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heres a quick swimming lesson for you guys

1. go in water

2. move arms

3. move legs

4. dont drink the water

5. congratulations, you are swimming
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Romulox28 posted...

heres a quick swimming lesson for you guys

1. go in water

2. move arms

3. move legs

4. dont drink the water

5. congratulations, you are swimming

How would that work if you're in a life and death situation where you never swam before, but you instantaneously need to learn how to swim or else you'll either drown or a shark will eat you?
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Darkrobotisback posted...

Romulox28 posted...

heres a quick swimming lesson for you guys

1. go in water

2. move arms

3. move legs

4. dont drink the water

5. congratulations, you are swimming

How would that work if you're in a life and death situation where you never swam before, but you instantaneously need to learn how to swim or else you'll either drown or a shark will eat you?

it is really as simple as moving your arms & legs in water, i dont know how you are not getting this
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eston posted...

I don't even remember learning how to swim

I just started mimicking swimming animations in gams. pretty sure I figured out how to swim effectively cause of banjo-kazooie
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Romulox28 posted...

Darkrobotisback posted...

Romulox28 posted...

heres a quick swimming lesson for you guys

1. go in water

2. move arms

3. move legs

4. dont drink the water

5. congratulations, you are swimming

How would that work if you're in a life and death situation where you never swam before, but you instantaneously need to learn how to swim or else you'll either drown or a shark will eat you?

it is really as simple as moving your arms & legs in water, i dont know how you are not getting this

but wouldn't you need to do those movements in synchronization otherwise you wouldn't swimming properly?
Pretty sure for people that never swam before, that form of knowledge wouldn't be obvious to them instantly... therefore the probability of drowning tremendously increases.
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swimming is natural. our bodies float if we relax. TC is telling the truth. it's not really anywhere near as hard as you think

I worked with a guy who couldn't swim. We tried to get him to learn. It was half help and half teasing tbh.

He insisted that he was different from other people and could not float. We told him that was bullshit. People naturally float of course (it's how you can tread water) but his mind was set.

I think that's part of it. Kids can learn easily but adults start creating all this mythology and keep themselves from learning.
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tc is essentially ridiculing drowning victims

"oh should have just moved your arms and legs"
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ModLogic posted...

tc is essentially ridiculing drowning victims

"oh should have just moved your arms and legs"

emma emmerich couldn't swim and managed to avoid drowning
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she literally hepd her breath and latched onto a swimmer
dont try to goomba
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goomba?
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Darkrobotisback posted...

but wouldn't you need to do those movements in synchronization otherwise you be wouldn't swimming properly?

no, you can literally kick your legs and flail your arms and you'll be fine as long as you dont exhaust yourself

ModLogic posted...

tc is essentially ridiculing drowning victims

"oh should have just moved your arms and legs"

if you fall overboard in the middle of the pacific ocean during a hurricane ill give u that one, if you drown in your Aunt Cathy's above ground pool because you forgot to move your limbs then that's on you

there is no reason to drown in 2018
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