Singapore dun have compulsory swimming lessons?

[harimau]

First world angmo countries have woh!

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[Leongsam]

It doesn't have to be compulsory. There's nothing stopping parents from sending their kids for swimming lessons. I learned how to swim when I was 3 years old.

 

[GoldenDragon]

It doesn't have to be compulsory. There's nothing stopping parents from sending their kids for swimming lessons. I learned how to swim when I was 3 years old.

ACS is the bestest! We had compulsory swimming lessons at Shaw Pool. I was a champion swimmer together with Peng Siong.

 

[Leongsam]

ACS is the bestest! We had compulsory swimming lessons at Shaw Pool. I was a champion swimmer together with Peng Siong.

I learned at the Chinese swimming club. My mum said it was important to learn to swim because we lived on a small Island with the sea no more than 10km away regardless of where one lived.

 

[Asterix]

I learned to swim in the school of hard knocks .........

[video=youtube;InBXu-iY7cw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBXu-iY7cw[/video]

....... together with the Vikings .........

[video=youtube;MTwq1_9VH68]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTwq1_9VH68[/video]

 

[GoldenDragon]

I learned at the Chinese swimming club. My mum said it was important to learn to swim because we lived on a small Island with the sea no more than 10km away regardless of where one lived.

Noted, boss. Your timing for 100m freestyle? I did it under a minute in the early 70s swimming with the Chan brothers - Roy and Mark. Alex was too senior.

 

[Leongsam]

Noted, boss. Your timing for 100m freestyle? I did it under a minute in the early 70s swimming with the Chan brothers - Roy and Mark. Alex was too senior.

Never did it competitively. I could do many laps but at my own pace.

 

[looneytan]

In those gumpung where I grew up parents threw young kids in a river that's how they learn to swim

 

[po2wq]

In those gumpung where I grew up parents threw young kids in a river that's how they learn to swim

ya. man! ...

dey oso threw dem in2 traffic 2 teach dem how 2 cross ze streets ...

 

[johnny333]

I learned at the Chinese swimming club. My mum said it was important to learn to swim because we lived on a small Island with the sea no more than 10km away regardless of where one lived.

Been decades since I've been to the Chinese Swimming club.
Back then I remember the pool used salt water pumped from the sea. Do they still do that

 

[Leongsam]

Been decades since I've been to the Chinese Swimming club.
Back then I remember the pool used salt water pumped from the sea. Do they still do that

No idea the last time I was at the club was 3 decades ago.

 

[virus]

I learned at the Chinese swimming club. My mum said it was important to learn to swim because we lived on a small Island with the sea no more than 10km away regardless of where one lived.

If you hv listen to mom. You would be a minister by now. You twit.

Leongsam

 

[jw5]

If you hv listen to mom. You would be a minister by now. You twit.

Leongsam

He did listen to his mom, he is the chief ministar mentor emeritus of sam's alfresco coffeeshop.

 

[virus]

id be worried sick if he tell me he donno what to say and start stomping his whinsy feet

 

[chuachinsengjason]

We all were once champion swimmers in our daddy's testicles.

 

[frenchbriefs]

I learned at the Chinese swimming club. My mum said it was important to learn to swim because we lived on a small Island with the sea no more than 10km away regardless of where one lived.

so u moved to another country instead literally surrounded by 7000 km of sea in the middle of nowhere.so vast it took 2 months for place wreckage to show up.

 

[GoldenDragon]

If you hv listen to mom. You would be a minister by now. You twit.

Leongsam

Correct. Twit simi lj?

Leongsam

 

[Onitsuka]

I have a problem with freestyle.

I can swim breaststroke effortlessly, at my own pace. But with freestyle, I have problem completing 50m. It's always the last 5m panting. I checked with my friend, and he being a good swimmer, was pretty sure that my stroke was correct. But even those 60 plus uncles at SAFRA whose strokes were imperfect could go on for many laps non-stop.

 

[GoldenDragon]

I have a problem with freestyle.

I can swim breaststroke effortlessly, at my own pace. But with freestyle, I have problem completing 50m. It's always the last 5m panting. I checked with my friend, and he being a good swimmer, was pretty sure that my stroke was correct. But even those 60 plus uncles at SAFRA

whose strokes were imperfect could go on for many laps non-stop.

notice something with breaststrokers? they are quite unique. they arent able to master another stroke be it back, butterfly or freestyle.

Look at that Quah chap n joseph schooling. they are great with all except breaststroke and our breaststrokers only compete in breaststroke races.

 

[Onitsuka]

notice something with breaststrokers? they are quite unique. they arent able to master another stroke be it back, butterfly or freestyle.

Look at that Quah chap n joseph schooling. they are great with all except breaststroke and our breaststrokers only compete in breaststroke races.

Now that you mention it, I remember Oon Jin Teik from ACS. Yes, he swam breastroke (possibly backstroke too), and nothing else.