I first learn to swim with my father at the mobile home park pool as a 7 year old. Then I took lessions in the summer time at the community pool in our area thru Red Cross. I went to a swim school to learn butterfly.
Dennis,
The same thing is true of me! My mother couldn't -- still can't -- swim a stroke, and so she made sure my brother and I took swimming lessons. We started out in someone's backyard pool. I think these were YMCA lessons, because the levels were minnows, guppies, etc. Then when I was 9 or 10 we joined West Meade Swim Club (Nashville, Tenn.), whose incomparable manager was Mary Lee Watson. That's where I really learned how to do the strokes correctly, and was eventually recruited for the swim team. So I owe it all to Mary Lee!
The ironic thing is that my mother still can't swim, yet she comes to the meet I'm in charge of every year and times. She said she never dreamed when she got me involved in swimming as a child that she would have a 46-year-old daughter and she would STILL be working at her swim meets!
Dennis,
The same thing is true of me! My mother couldn't -- still can't -- swim a stroke, and so she made sure my brother and I took swimming lessons. We started out in someone's backyard pool. I think these were YMCA lessons, because the levels were minnows, guppies, etc. Then when I was 9 or 10 we joined West Meade Swim Club (Nashville, Tenn.), whose incomparable manager was Mary Lee Watson. That's where I really learned how to do the strokes correctly, and was eventually recruited for the swim team. So I owe it all to Mary Lee!
The ironic thing is that my mother still can't swim, yet she comes to the meet I'm in charge of every year and times. She said she never dreamed when she got me involved in swimming as a child that she would have a 46-year-old daughter and she would STILL be working at her swim meets!
