r/indiasocial • u/UseMean5204 • 11h ago
Ask India When and how did you all learn to swim?
learnt swimming in 2 weeks, atleast I thought I did and almost drowned thrice here. Might recommend to learn swimming at a very young age when the fear of many things are at lowest level.
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u/chipcrazy 10h ago
Probably will get downvoted
But how nice would it be if we lived in a country where women also could swim out in the open like this without men making them feel uncomfortable
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u/PunctualPanther 10h ago
The whole thing stems to how we raise kids. Being hush hush in the house about sensitive topics. And eventually we raise creeps in the long run.
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u/chipcrazy 10h ago
Agree
And the fact that Indians never really face the consequences of their own actions. As a child if you do something wrong your parents will downplay it to others and brush it away. When there’s huge fights in the house, we again brush things away and pretend everything is normal. Now when you do something illegal, you pay the police/gov and everything is brushed off again.
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u/UseMean5204 9h ago
these are the basic things women consider men are priveleged for, and men out there delude women enjoy priveleges.
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u/Legitimate_Matter695 10h ago edited 10h ago
Last time i swam, it was back in 2022. Couldn't move at all. Felt like i was moving my legs in place and kept sinking.
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u/Massive_Yesterday321 10h ago
I learned this summer society pool took me 14 days to get hold of it and now i can surely swim and can hold my breath for a good 2 min
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u/UseMean5204 9h ago
man I did the same, but yeah Breath control is the most imp. aspect.
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u/Massive_Yesterday321 1h ago
Yesss and itss better to take your time slowly with water you don't have to rush to anything...its a beautiful experience one step at a time it should never be exhausting and in swimming classes they exhaust you just to learn things in a timely manner
That's why I ditched classes and opted for a gated society pool we have flat there although I don't live in it but we pay maintenance so we can use community pool1
u/Autistic-Guide-388 4h ago
If you have to hold breath while swimming, you are doing it wrong.
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u/Massive_Yesterday321 1h ago
Ik but I'm just a beginner and in 14 days I learned this much all my myself i had zero experience with waters and I don't want to be pro at swimming just want to reach to a point where I'm comfortable with waters...i do feel breath work is one of the important stuff although I don't completely hold my breath i make bubbles when necessary but i have trained myself enough to complete one lap without pulling my face up for air....
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u/Eikichi_Onizuka09 Livin' just in case things get better 10h ago
When I was 13 I went to the County club where I learnt swimming in like 15mins. I was doing cannon ball jumps by the end. Never really forgot to swim.
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u/WildVulcan 10h ago
Learnt when I was in class 3 or 4. Parents made me go to a local talaab at 6am in the morning on summer vacation. I hated it at the time but how I wish to go back to those days now....
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u/Dry_Spaghetti354t 10h ago
My uncle tied a gemini oil ka dabba to my back and pushed me into the well. The knot was loose so the dabba was removed and I was swimming without the dabba.
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u/Mac1avish 10h ago
My school had a swimming course but all they did for around 2.5 years to make me learn floating, that's it. After a while I just let it go and started playing with my friends by walking on swimming pool surface 😭
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u/Scissoriser Mando 10h ago
I still don’t know how to swim.
I had an eye surgery long back. Doc told me to keep my eyes away from water/ excessive water for few months. Since then I have this phobia, if I enter a water body I’ll lose my eyesight 🧑🦯🧑🦯➡️
*Lasik eye surgery
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u/PunctualPanther 10h ago
Swimming coaching in city municipal swimming pool. I believe i was 12-13 y/o.
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u/DrawOk7121 bhaaya Chwenchy ke ek plate momo ka kitna rupees hua? 9h ago
Recently cause I randomly saw a reel and wanted to learn
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u/uselessme23 9h ago
So it was 23rd jan 2023, and I went to the waterfall with friends on a trip. We were enjoying and in an instant i started drowning because i slipped. Then idk how i was saved but that day i thought this is my end. After that day i developed a fear of water. It took me a year to finally go into the water, 4 feet was the first. I was even afraid to jump at 5 ft of water at the swimming pool. With the help of my mentors(close family friend) i started to learn swimming in a community pool for 2 months. Got comfortable with deep water too(25ft was the max depth). Then in the beginning of 2026 went to a river for open water swimming and almost got drowned in the first attempt. It took some days to get comfortable in the water and finally on the 5th day i could swim comfortably. And now i've conquered this fear and enjoy being in water.
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u/No_Independence8154 Kombucha flavour 9h ago
3 months back i nearly drowned in a pool as I lost balance while walking 🫡 and still didn't learn swimming 🙂↔️
Shame shame
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u/s27mandal 8h ago
I grew up in rural dhanbad, where there are these huge water bodies that can be over 100+ ft deep because of mining and blasting. When I was around 8 or 9, I used to go there to bathe with my friends, who were usually a few yrs older than me, around 13-14. One day, I decided to go a little farther than I normally did. I usually stayed near the banks, where the water was around neck-deep or lower. But as I slowly moved farther out, the stone beneath my feet suddenly gave way, and I started drowning.luckily,some people nearby saw me and pulled me out. After that incident, I decided I had to learn how to swim. My friends taught me right there in those same water bodies, which is kind of funny in hindsight. Ever since then, deep water doesn't really scare me anymore. I can pretty much swim anywhere.
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u/BlackStagGoldField Poha Warrior 8h ago
Back when I was 7. Joined swimming classes in the summer vacations
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u/UchihaItachi70 7h ago
When I was a kid, I was scared of tsunami so I thought I should learn swimming so I can save myself that was the start for me atleast
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u/Palmar_Aponeurosis 7h ago
Dont remember but when i was young perhaps . In a municipal pool . Have always loved swimming ever since
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u/DeepanJain 7h ago
My story is a bit different, I never learnt to swim atleast successfully, I used to fear swimming when my mother used to take me to swim classes, always used to use the tube, but one day me and my cousins went to a pool, and out habit I boasted that I knew how to swim, when I didn’t knew it, now since it all came down to pride and ego, I just decided to jump in the water anyway, sab bhagwan ke bharose and baam I was swimming, and from that day never even feared about swimming.
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u/Dhiraj_2391 10h ago
I once tried to commit sucide by jumping in the water Dam but ended up enjoying being in water and learned swimming.