Are some people more buoyant than others?
2006-09-01 14:16:22 · 21 answers · asked by Polo 7 in Sports ➔ Swimming & Diving
Yes, learning to swim is easy and fun. You can learn at your local YMCA or community college. Some people are more buoyant than others, for example women are more buoyant, due to their anatomy, than men. I taught myself how to swim by first learning to float and trust that the water would support me, and then by watching others and imitating them. Trial and error. I love swimming. Enjoy!
2006-09-02 16:13:04 · answer #1 · answered by Rhonda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, swimming is easy to learn but you're going to spend the rest of your life perfecting your strokes, how you pull, how you kick. It took me only two months of lessons to be able to swim 25m (btw took me 3 mins). I was 10 at that time (ok that wasn't really it since I've been splashing around in the pool since 3 or 4). However when you start swimming, or doing any other sport for that matter, you will be sucking at it for the first year or so but if you keep up at it and do what your coach says I assure you that you will improve. (swim faster, better stroke etc.)
And yes it is true that some people are more buoyant. I dunno why but I've always been able so sink right down to the bottom of a 12ft pool (really hard since I get out of breath around the bottom and I have to swim back up).
2006-09-01 22:22:13 · answer #2 · answered by -WANTED- 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
swimming is like any sport you can learn any sport if you want to you just have to do it. it may be hard at first but if you keep going at it it will get easier.
Some people ARE more buoyant than others. Fat is more buoyant than muscle, so anybody who has a higher muscle tone will be less buoyant. black men will be a lot less buoyant as they have naturally denser bones and higher muscle tone.
2006-09-02 16:10:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's very easy if you are not afraid to learn. With lessons you won't need to be worry about drowning.
The water will push you up according to your body volume. Fat people float easily that thin ones. People ARE more bouyant than others. But that's relevant only if you want to go diving. It doesn't matter to learn
2006-09-03 16:56:30 · answer #4 · answered by Laguna 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
swimming is absoultly not easy to learn. it takes from months to years to learn how to swim and it would take a countless amount of time to learn all the strokes and derfinatly would take some time to master them. im on a swim team and im still learning.. some people might have more genitic talent for swimming, therefore, they learn faster but pratice makes perfect.
2006-09-01 22:12:53 · answer #5 · answered by mizzang3la 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
swimming is easier if you aren't afraid of the water. You can learn fairly rapidly, but it might take awhile to be competent and efficient. Fat floats bone doesn't. In Red Cross Life Saving class I'd always rescue the fat girl if I was tired.
2006-09-01 22:34:37 · answer #6 · answered by Inadept 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Learning to swim was really easy for me, and I was young. Just the techniques of swimming like butterfly, breaststroke, freestyle, etc. are harder to learn because they are used for competition and endurance. Just swimming around though is fun and easy for me.
2006-09-02 15:36:22 · answer #7 · answered by Taylor L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. You can take adult swim classes at a lot of places, like your local YMCA, even in the winter.
I am a little too bouyant these days. Ack!
2006-09-01 21:22:35 · answer #8 · answered by Zelda Hunter 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wel not really it iz if ur a natual but keep tryin all da time @ lst twice a week and u wil gt btr after all practise makes perfect. and if u dnt want 2 learn by urself den try out swimming lesons it really wrks me and ma bro dun it and we r bth quite gd now.
2006-09-03 13:59:52 · answer #9 · answered by shannon m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Swimming is easy to learn if you have no fear of water.
You can teach an infant to swim. True.
2006-09-01 21:22:16 · answer #10 · answered by no nickname 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋