I can swim, the problem is that my skinny ass can't float.Yes you can. If you hold your breath in your chest and not your mouth, your body will float just fine. The more you panic and thrash around, the easier you'll sink.
I can understand people who live in the city not knowing how to swim. Not as many opportunities to be around large bodies of water like you would living in the country.I don't panic anymore, too used to it. I cannot float unless it's face down, which isn't helpful.
Yes you can. If you hold your breath in your chest and not your mouth, your body will float just fine. The more you panic and thrash around, the easier you'll sink.
Not making fun of them or anything, but I genuinely dont get it. It seems like such a basic instinct to keep propelling yourself upwards with your feet and hands. Pushing the water beneath you.
The even more basic instinct is that they're floating/falling and it feels weird so they flail in every direction for something to hold onto.It's this TC. I can't swim, so my first instinct in deep water is to panic, which causes me to sink, which causes me to panic more. I'd need actual lessons to be able to learn because just telling me to "relax and you'll float" is not going to help me actually overcome the "but what if I don't float" thoughts.
Apparently it's not a natural instinct. Humans are not designed for swimming and have never had a major interest in it until very recently. The majority of the world can't actually swim. It's just so ubiquitous in the first world that we don't think about a lot of people not having access to places where they could even learn.
Okay, a question:So a very small group that has specifically divergent evolutionary traits giving them an upper hand at swimming?
How long is "very recently"?
Because the The Bajau people, often referred to as Sea Nomads, have lived an entirely marine-dependent existence, traveling the Southeast Asian seas on houseboats for over 1,000 years.
Also, the Bajau have genetic differences leading to diving-related phenotypes, specifically an enlarged spleen caused by a mutation on the PDE10A gene.
Same. I've seen babies swim. (I wasn't involved)
So fun fact, babies actually have an instinct to swim that we lose as we get older.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_swimming
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_swimming
Not making fun of them or anything, but I genuinely dont get it. It seems like such a basic instinct to keep propelling yourself upwards with your feet and hands. Pushing the water beneath you.
And don't underestimate the panic from drowning.There's a reason that someone without training trying to save a drowning person often results in two drowning people.
I panic like a devil fruit user lolAww
I can swim, the problem is that my skinny ass can't float.Skinny people are the easiest at floating. Just keep air in your lungs.
I've almost drowned 8+ times (I stopped counting).
There's a reason that someone without training trying to save a drowning person often results in two drowning people.In my lifeguard training my instructor chose me to try this on. Beforehand she told us that if someone panicking tries to climb on your head when youre attempting to save them, punch them in the nose as hard as possible.
No... that's not true. Fat floats easier and lack of fat or dense muscle tone makes it hard to float. The air in your lungs only helps so much.Its been very true in my experience. Lung capacity does wonders. I have to actively swim downwards for depth. I dont sink like a stone.
Skinny people are the easiest at floating. Just keep air in your lungs.This is definitely not true. The more fat you have, the easier it is to float.
This is definitely not true. The more fat you have, the easier it is to float.Usually. Ive literally never sunk, even if I tried. Only time I could was if I expelled all the air from my lungs.
Usually. Ive literally never sunk, even if I tried. Only time I could was if I expelled all the air from my lungs.Do you have much muscle mass?
it's even funnier when the person can ride bicycle but can't swimIt's me
it's even funnier when the person can ride bicycle but can't swimI don't understand the correlation.
Do you have much muscle mass?Im not a body builder, but yeah, a good bit. I also have a good lung capacity.