Didn't pass swim test

[Supernal]

<Said tiburon72157: hmmmm...v.g. an aquatic sport and they made you do a swim test? imagine that...wonders never cease. >


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And he shows them pearly white..."
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[1_T_Submariner]

Keep at it Supernal Swimming lessons and practice will help...

 

[NarcosicDiver]

I had trouble with my swimming test too. I can swim 1km no problem in pool, but my test take place in open water, at beach. I remembered drank like 10 liters of water, then when water treading, I just lie still on the surface (I sucks with water treading), then I got faint head becasue of the wave........ But then since your test is in the pool, at least you get away with "wave problem".

 

[MoonWrasse]

how do you do laps without touching the wall? that's pretty brutal. Wouldn't you have to touch the wall at the end of the lap, then turn around? I wouldn't call it cheating. Pushing off the wall is inherent to lap swimming. Anyways, my instructors didn't say one thing about it. We had another test, where we had to do an underwater swim across the length of the pool, one breath, and we couldn't push off.

Yeah, I don't know of any turns wthout touching the wall. Perhaps they meant holding on and resting, which would be cheating.

However, in hotel pools I've swam in circles without touching the sides, but that's for a different reason

 

[StSomewhere]

...besides, she'll be safer if she can swim.

As always, Walter, thanks for distilling this down to its true essence.

 

[Dive-aholic]

Close. It's a 200 m/yd swim OR a 300 m/yd snorkel.

You're right (of course ). I don't offer the snorkel unless it's a last resort thing. I don't even tell them about it until it becomes a last resort, for the reason you give - better to be able to swim it.

400m/yd swim is DM, and timed.

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

If worse comes to worse, you could always sink straight to the bottom and sprint back and forth.

 

[skippy77]

keep up the pool training and u will ge there

 

[Supernal]

If worse comes to worse, you could always sink straight to the bottom and sprint back and forth.

:rofl: That HAD occured to me!

 

[Walter]

You'll get there, just keep plugging away. If I can do it, so can you.