It has been a busy week, a week of exams, so I kind of lost the inspiration to post. However, I couldn't miss out on the last topic of the Hive Learner prompt, as it has to do with one of my favorite hobbies...
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When it comes to things I love to do, swimming would make the top 5... The first time I entered a large body of water was many years ago, I was not even a teenager yet, my sister took me to the sea side in my town back then and I told her I wanted to enter the sea when I saw my agemate swimming inside, It was when I entered I realized how easy it looks when we watch others do it. Still, it is only when it is our turn that we realize how difficult it is. I could not float or swim because of the fear of drowning, so I just played with the water and left after a few minutes.
The second time was a swimming pool, and this was a few years ago, 2020 precisely, and this was when I learn how to swim, funny enough, a friend was still trying to teach me, but I just didn't get it until I went to the pool another day and tried to learn some swimming techniques from YouTube, and that worked! I started swimming with the frog style, even though I was slow, but there was movement, and the more I practiced, the better I got, the more new styles I learned.
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I went to the swimming pool with @quduus1, and I decided to try a risky move by jumping into the pool and swimming to the end of other side of the pool then it happpend!, when I thought I have reached the end of the other side and attempted to hold unto the wall cos I always close my eyes when swimming, I realized I haven't yet reach the wall side and I am in the deepest part of the swimming pool where my leg doesn't touch the ground, I lost my mind at that moment and I started to drown, I gulp in the first water and look up to see quduus's back turned at me while dancing and the rest of the people were also not looking at my side, I was the only one in the pool, Before I could gulp the water the second time, something flashed my mind, it told me not to struggle with the water instead I should dip my head in the water and swim to the nearest wall to me which was what I did and that was how I was saved.
I have heard cases of swimmers who died inside water, and one of the reasons could be what happened to me, and if I had died that day, quduus and every other person would never understand what happened, but I thank God I made it out alive.
That incident put a fear in my heart for a while, but then I was able to conquer the fear and resume swimming. But this time, I was more careful and stopped doing the daredevil stunt that could put me in trouble.
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WOW! That is scary for me to learn from a YouTube on how to swim. I just started thinking what if something went wrong.
All thanks to God because you are perfect at it now.
Thanks for sharing
that is one of the best place to learn though if you want to learn on your own and it helps...
These are the type of adventures we remember for a lifetime. I fear swimming in large bodies of water, no walls, only back to the shore, which sometimes can be a bit far away.
you mean ocean and sea? oh well i would never dare go too deep in an ocean cos it is a journey of no return...lol
Lol, yes. The ocean is big and that bigness scares the life out of me sometimes.
Hehehe. Burl conquered the water…I am always afraid of large amounts of water but I really do wish to swim someday. Swimming is fun, I also know that.
you can start with the swimming pool but make sure to avoid the deep part and use the ring or you can also visit the beach and play in the ocean, again dont go in too deep, as for me, i disrespected the water with my crazy stunt and it wanted to teach me a lesson but thank God it didn't cost me my life, now I know my limit and also learn to respect Mr water lol.
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STOPSo youtube tricks helped you to learn swim. It's interesting as didn't hear someone received the help of youtube in case of swimming. I will remember it for sure.
yea it helped me, it will still work for some while it won't work for others, I think i was able to pull it through cos I was determined.
That was a scary experience , thank God you figured out a way.
Swimming looks easy when watching, but in reality I believe it won't be so easy.
I need to start my own swimming class soon.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
yea we dont know how hard somethings are until we try them but when we end up learning them, we realize it is as easy as we think it is.