When Did You Learn To Swim?

Mmm.. Lets see i was 3 yrs when i started swimming (with the life jacket and the 2 arm floaters) and then at 5 yrs old i started swimming with only life jacket and at 6 yrs old i started swimming with nothing :)

I was in 3rd grade, I remember, because I had a crush on my p.e. Teacher. Lol

I grew up in a house with an in-ground pool so as long as I can remember I could swim.  I'm not sure when I first started but I do know that I never used any floats or anything.  I guess I started off with a run :)

I learned how to swim, well, hmmmmm, I taught myself how to swim, no lessons, but I started swimming, not very well, when I was 7, when I was 8 I was a better, but I had to learn to let go of my nose, and when I was 9, I was a decent swimmer, when I was 10, people were impressed, that I knew how to swim so well, but, I just watched everybody, I am happy that I had good role models!!! I started to dive at 10, and was made fun of. :(, but then I tried extra hard, and never dove in front of anyone, and then we moved, and instead of swimming in a lake, I swam in a pretty decent pool, there, one day I met a girl, and she just kept on diving, and diving, and diving, and she was better at diving then I had seen anywhere else!!! Eventually after me watching, and asking 1000 questions, adn she said "You try." So I did, and I did a pretty good dive, remembering everything, and so I kept on practicing, and around a month later, one of my friends asked me if I could do a dive, and I said "not really" but eventually, I went and did a dive, and she was really surprised, and from then on that year, my dive was better than anyone else's dive, and I was very, and still to this day, proud. :) :) :) :) :) happy ending!!! Good swimmer, good dive, but I don't know the correct strokes, still to this day, but can swim about as fast as people who do know them, and I just plain am not allowed to join the swim team, because I don't know the strokes!!! Lol!!! Happy endings!!! :) :) :)!!!!!!

Honest to God, I don't remember my exact age but I learned real fast when my grandpa threw me in the pond!!!!!!! I had to be around 4 or 5 and he didn't do out of meanness, that's how he taught my dad how!

I was one of those pathetic children with utterly no coordination.  I tried to teach myself to swim from the time I was about 6 years old with absolutely no luck whatsoever.  Finally, when I was 12 my mom said enough is enough and signed me up for swimming lessons.  I was mortified, but boy was I ever glad afterwards.  I loved the lessons and so enjoyed finally being able to swim.  I still love it.  By the way, it took me 2-1/2 years of trying every single day to learn to ride a two wheeled bike.  Skating was another nightmare.  Knowing all this, try to picture my ballet lessons.  Sad, truly sad.  But at least I'm not a quitter!

I learned at the age of 4 and at age 6 i had past the requirements to be a life saver in the pool. Life gaurd so to speak. Now my kids at age 3 can swim and are definitely part fish especially in the summer here.

Learned to dog paddle at the age of five and haven't progressed much past that point.

Gosh. It seems like I was born knowing how. I remember swimming when I was three but as I remember the first time I got in and it just came to me.

I never learned how to swim!!!!!!!!!!! I took swimming lessons, both on the lake (I lived near Lake Erie) and at the Y, when I was about ten years old......I got all the moves right, but the instructors just could not believe I could not move, or propel myself in the water!!!!!!! I"d dive in, use my arms and legs as I was supposed to, got the breathing right, etc., go a few feet,  and.... Sink like a stone!!!!!!! So at least I tried!! I did, however, learn one very important thing; how to float!!!! Both instructors showed me how, and I had no trouble learning that.......I am not an outdoors person, and do not esp. Like boating, etc., but if I am ever on a boat and something goes wrong, I can at least float!!!!!!!!

I think that I was about 6  years old and both my older brother and sister wanted me to out to the raft with them actually they dared me and they called me a sissy if I did not go with them.  So I followed them.  When my mom found out she sent out the lifeguard to get me.  I was so humiliated because he would not let me swim back and my brother and sister laughed at me.

I learned to swim when I was 6 when my uncle threw me into a 6 foot pool and I started doing the dog paddle then I started to swim better.

I was probably around four!!!

I learned how to swim at the age of 6.It was something that was fun for me.

I took swim lessons when I was about 10 years old.  Never was real good but good enough NOT to drown.  Dog paddle is my favorite.

I learned to swim when i was9. I wasn't very good but i could stay above water.

I was very young when I learned how to swim. Do you think that it isn't normal for people to not know how to swim? I don't know about that. Anyway, I learned around the age of 3 or 4.

I'm 14 years old and I still haven't learned to swim. Well, swim well for that matter. But because I really need to learn soon now that I'm going into high school, I'm guessing I learned how to swim around a month in the future. Gym requirement.

Don't remember when I learned but I took lessons when I was six and I already new how.

I was 9.  I was always crawling around the bottom of the bluffhole chasing crawdads and tadpoles.  My uncle taught me to swim underwater, first, so I had no fear if I sank.  How wise!  In P.E. In 9th grade we had to do 10 laps underwater, and when I finished everyone was laughing.  Seems my head was under and I was stroking away, but my rump was cruising like a buoy the whole time.  My teacher finally let go of her sides and marked me as passing.

Actually this year only...........and i m still not a perfect swimmer----rather a learner....and i think its difficult to swim!!!!!

When I was around six years old.

I was in second grade

We had to learn how to swim to pass P.E. In Florida in an Olympic size swimming pool with all the different strokes. I barely passed. Peace

Saimaiman. Thank you for the reference. However, I do not know how to swim. Being as impecunious as we are, I never had the chance to learn. We do not live near any bodies of water and no one in my family can swim either(yes, it is true). I wouldn't mind learning how, mind. It has always been something I wanted to do before my days end.