I can ride a bike but I can't swim at all. The reason is that I have aquaphobia, a fear of water, so when I ever I tried getting into a pool for lessons I ended up sprinting my ass out of there like I was on the Benny Hill show.
Poll: Can you swim and/or ride a bicycle.
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Both are sort of staples of Dutch culture so it's safe to say that I can both swim and ride a bicycle.
I can swim, having learnt to do it in primary school, but the only technique I know how to do (or the only one I've retained, at least) is breaststroke. I could never get front crawl down so I'm not going anywhere particularly fast, but I've never really needed to either. I haven't ridden a bike since I was 11, so I'm not sure how exactly that would go down. I broke my wrist on my bike at around the same age, but funnily enough I don't think that's what put me off seeing as got back on my bike a fair few occasions after it healed, I just lost interest with it I guess and felt I'd rather walk to get anywhere I needed to go. Never really missed it since.
Can swim, but never learned and I don't really want to learn how to ride a bike.
Same for ice skating. I am told I was put into skating lessons, but most of the time would just fall on purpose and slide around on my ass.
Same for ice skating. I am told I was put into skating lessons, but most of the time would just fall on purpose and slide around on my ass.
out of the 100 people who voted, only one other person can do neither.
I don't know weather to laugh or shed a single tear...
I don't know weather to laugh or shed a single tear...
Other way around for me, I can swim no problem, but I have a fear of falling so bad that I can barely go down stairs without clutching the rails, and ladders or bikes always give me the image of me falling and breaking my neck or cracking my head open.Mr.Grim said:
looking down a TALL ledge freaks me out so much that I usually can barely stand, thus increasing my chance of falling. Oh god I just pictured myself falling off a syscraper, thanks a lot OP.
Learned to ride a bike and swim both around the time when I was four-five, I think. We also had swim lessons in school when we were seven-eight, as well as regular(well, once every few years) gym class excersises where we had to show that we could swim for a longer period of time. Had it with three different schools, so I assume everyone does it here.
I love swimming, but I hate bikes. I've ridden bikes maybe 5 times in my life, might as well not be able to.
It got something to do with bone density. I find myself unable to float and so does my sisters and my father. Both me and my father are decent swimmers, but we sink like rocks once we stop moving. I am quite relaxed in the water so it's not because I panic.Dags90 said:
OT: Already mentioned that I'm a decent swimmer, I can also ride a bicycle without any problems.
Hhhowww?! I know you're Daystar but how fucking how?Daystar Clarion said:I can swim while riding a bike.
That's just how talented I am
I use to swim and cycle a lot when I was a kid, especially during the summer holidays.
But then I grew up and got lazy
OT- I'm a teenager who can't get by without swimming or biking, especially in the summer.
I can do both.
No one really remembers when I learned how to swim, but most can agree on the fact that I figured it out before I walked for the first time. As for riding a bike, I also learned that while I was relatively young, I believe at age 2? They both came to me quickly.
No one really remembers when I learned how to swim, but most can agree on the fact that I figured it out before I walked for the first time. As for riding a bike, I also learned that while I was relatively young, I believe at age 2? They both came to me quickly.
It's because, in mine and people I know's case at least, because swimming lessons were a HUGE part of our childhood. They're the thing I remember most clearly about being nine. If you say "I can't swim" to me, that's a bit like saying "I've never had a grilled cheese sandwich". It shocks me.Phasmal said:
OT: I suck at bike riding, but I can do it. Heaven help me if I have to make a sharp turn. I'm a good swimmer, though. I'm not very fast, but I can get from point A to point B effortlessly with correct techniques.
As I said, swimming lessons from age nine.
I'm a swimmer that competed in state competitions in high school, and can swim breaststroke better than the huge majority of humans. I feel pretty good about that. I'm also a trained lifeguard and have rescued several people in my time.
Funny story, I nearly drowned in a lake when I was 3 years old, making my strive for being the best at water-based stuff pretty awesome. I have conquered the water after it tried to kill me as a toddler.
As for biking, me and my friends had a large section of woods behind a local Burger King where we built our own dirt and wood jumps. It used to be pretty large, and we were fairly skilled, for our age and equipment. I could consistently go no-handed in mid-air (harder than it looks!) and could tabletop fairly consistently. BMXing was one of my main hobbies as a younger teenager.
These two areas are probably my top areas in physical fitness, combined with free-running, so excuse me if I sound like I'm bragging, heh.
Funny story, I nearly drowned in a lake when I was 3 years old, making my strive for being the best at water-based stuff pretty awesome. I have conquered the water after it tried to kill me as a toddler.
As for biking, me and my friends had a large section of woods behind a local Burger King where we built our own dirt and wood jumps. It used to be pretty large, and we were fairly skilled, for our age and equipment. I could consistently go no-handed in mid-air (harder than it looks!) and could tabletop fairly consistently. BMXing was one of my main hobbies as a younger teenager.
These two areas are probably my top areas in physical fitness, combined with free-running, so excuse me if I sound like I'm bragging, heh.
thesilentman said:Hhhowww?! I know you're Daystar but how fucking how?Daystar Clarion said:I can swim while riding a bike.
That's just how talented I am
I use to swim and cycle a lot when I was a kid, especially during the summer holidays.
But then I grew up and got lazy
OT- I'm a teenager who can't get by without swimming or biking, especially in the summer.
Feats of oddly specific and pointless acts of physical prowess were all part of my training to become the Daystar.
I can do both.
I can also ski, snowboard, ride a jetski, drive a motorcycle on- and off-road and have a natural knack for driving any wheeled motorized vehicles. I can also fly a kite.
Can't surf though. Nor can I skate. Mostly because I never got into them.
Would like to learn paragliding, maybe powered.
I can also ski, snowboard, ride a jetski, drive a motorcycle on- and off-road and have a natural knack for driving any wheeled motorized vehicles. I can also fly a kite.
Can't surf though. Nor can I skate. Mostly because I never got into them.
Would like to learn paragliding, maybe powered.