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At the school I went to in England they started teaching us to swim in P2, or the second year of elementary school, I was around 6. My dad got me a bike that same year, but it took me about two years to learn to ride it properly, I struggled with the balance.
I learned to swim when I was 8, and ride a bike when I was 9. What about you? (assuming you've learned!).
2-wheeler bike I was 5 years old.
To swim in a pool, maybe 8 or 9.
I learned to ride a bike with training wheels and in no time those training wheels were getting in the way. I crashed a lot into sheds but I was riding and I went fast. I destroyed 3 bicycles in about 2 years.
Those arm floats may have helped me learn to swim.
Iceskated for first time last year (age 24), it seems like something I just already knew how to do. I went 45 minutes until I fell and that was because I accidently used the front brakes on the shoe. Rollarblades a little bit as a preteen. Still can't skate on those oldfashion 4-wheel shoes, they look as hard as skateboarding.
Ride a bike--when I was that age they only made tricycles for kids. I had an "English" bike when I was 8 and it was a little bit too big for me. (3 speed Raleigh, this was in the '50s).
I never took swimming lessons, I just learned from going in the water. Hard to say by what age. I learned to ride a bike at about 7 or 8. I was afraid for a long time due to growing up on a gravel road, and had badly scarred knees from learning to ride on those roads and multiple wipeouts on sharp chips and chunks of crushed limestone gravel. I still have scars.
Tabula - you're speaking my language .... definitely takes a different kind of skill
I still remember as a kid coming up on a driveway that had fresh gravel and I was really hauling ...... until I came to a fairly sudden skid stop ....... you get to learn little things like how blood absorent your socks are or much fun it is to constantly bend a torn up knee as you pedal home .... good times
I was probably about 8 or 9 when I rode a 2-wheel bike. I could walk on stilts before that.
I've still never learned to swim, but I learned to float at about 55, so I could probably swim if I had to, but I don't like going in the water, it's not something I'd ever do for fun, so I never bothered.
I learned to swim when I was 8, and ride a bike when I was 9. What about you? (assuming you've learned!).
That was an awful long time ago.....let me think......
I know I took swimming lessons when I was about 4 in Payson, Arizona. Pop and Bunny Something-or-another (Carter, maybe) taught me. I even have a diploma somewhere!
The bike thing...I remember riding the neighbor's two-wheeler when I was teeny, probably 3 or 4, but it was just a small 18 inch bike, and I didn't use the pedals, I just pushed it along with my feet. I seem to recall getting my first two-wheeler when I was about 5-ish. It was pink and white with training wheels and pink and white streamers from the handlebars. I think I got it for my fifth birthday, which is in April.
I never rode my bike to school because we always lived far enough away that I took the bus.
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Swimming lessons are compulsory in Australian schools. I remember in the early years, when I was still learning, I used to dread swimming lessons/be scared of the water. Gradually I started to enjoy it and we'd swim a lot during the school holidays. Still, I'm not a strong swimmer. Never trained doing laps or anything just played around in the water. My weakness is a lack of stamina. After doing 25 metres of freestyle I feel puffed out, but I can probably backstroke for miles.
I've only ice skated twice in my life but it came naturally to me because I roller-bladed as a kid. The two are pretty similar.
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