At what age did you learn to swim , or can’t you swim? At what age did you learn to swim , or can’t you swim? Although described as poorly coordinated I first learnt to swim at the beach at Pataya when I was 6. I mainly swim slow breaststroke , very occasionally doing front crawl. I swim with my head above water. I don’t like swimming underwater.
I can dog paddle or get around underwater but I was never able to learn how to swim properly. They tried to teach me the proper technique in high school but I just couldn’t co-ordinate the kicking, the proper arm movements and the breathing. The breathing was the hardest part of it; I could be doing the other things right but every time I turned my head to breath I swallowed water and lost my momentum. But not knowing how to swim the correct way never stopped me from body-surfing in the ocean a million times when me and my friends went to the beach every chance we got. Drink a beer, smoke a joint, and go dive in the ocean.
My sister and I learned together. I learned at 11 and she at age 9. I haven’t been swimming in many, many years now. But, swimming is something you never forget how to do.