Does your wife know how to swim?

[Emmysaur 29]

I was so sure that most Filipinoes don't know how to swim but he(father in law) insisted that there's something wrong with the picture, a Filipino doesn't know how to swim I don't really know where he got his facts, it might be rude to ask. charles! could be right, it might be just an assumption that people who live in the Philippines can swim since the country is surrounded with bodies of water.

[Emmysaur 29]

I know how to swim taught myself when I was in high school and still learning more cause I soooo love water..

You learned to swim on your own? That is cool, I am jealous! When I was in college I wanted to enroll in a swimming class for my physical education, unfortunately the university didn't offer swimming classes

Funny you brought this up. Just two months ago I was visiting my wife in Manila and our hotel had a pool. I was surprised to learn that she couldn't swim. Lucky for her the water wasn't very deep so she could play around and still have fun (in fact one of our pics in our profile shows us in the pool together). Good times!

Back then when we go to the beach or a pool we always bring tubes. I thought it was more fun floating with the tube than swimming, lol!

I had actually heard the stereotype that most Filipinos don't know how to swim. Well, my fiancee didn't know how when we first met, but I and a friend of her's have helped her in learning. She has come far and continuing to get better.

What I heard is the stereotype that Asians can't swim not exactly Filipino. It's great that your fiancee is learning quick. My fiance loves to swim so I might as well learn, he said learning to swim is a lot easier than learning to ride a bicycle. I really hope so.

[A and T 82]

maybe depends on if they were raised in the mountains or manila, but most from the province know how to swim

[James and Cynthia 70]

Neither my wife or our daughter knew how to swim when they came here in May last year. They've lived in Batangas by the ocean their entire lives. Since then, well, my wife still makes me laugh when she swims, but she's trying. She won't be jumping off the high rocks any time soon. Her daughter is doing much better after taking swimming lessons a few months ago. I think we're ready for summer so I can get them both in the rivers.

-James

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

My fiance and most of her family don't know how to swim, which to me is astounding. I have been able to swim since I was 4 years old, and my fiance now is 31 and doesn't know how to swim.

But to give her credit, her parents never wanted to teach them since a incident when she was alot younger. Her sister died in the deep end of the pool, and her parents never wanted them near the water after that. I am trying to teach her now, whenever I go back she gets alittle better. But I agree with the stereotype alot of pinoys I know don't know how to swim.

[iluvmy_hubbybunny 9]

I don't know how to swim and I'm a slow learner too , I'm born in manila raised there too and we don't go to beach often.. so I think it really depends where you live

Edited April 6, 2012 by iluvmy_hubbybunny

[Jamie and Sveta 18]

My fiancé is a great swimmer. I used to be, but I have a bum knee now... Stupid firefighting.......

Edited April 6, 2012 by Jamie and Sveta

[Philwithlove 17]

don't know how to swim. Nor any of my 5 other siblings and also include my mother. hehe. Some of my relatives know how to "langoy aso" = swimming like a dog. lol

[Messybrownhair 251]

I am a pretty good swimmer, but I took swimming lessons when I was little and even did some competitions. That was then, now I can barely do laps. sigh!

[TnJ 131]

LOL seriously ??? I didn't know that. As from the Philippines thought most filipino's know how to swim specially that we are sorouded by 7,100 something Islands in Philippines "high tide or low tide" . Anyway my father is a fisherman and we lived 30ft away from the water, so I learned to swim since I was 5. I met very few people that dont know how swim in the Philippines.... "few" not most.. so I guess what you heard is probably a B.S .

Maybe it is BS or maybe not? It is a stereotype after all, and GOD only knows where it originated. A generalization is just that. For example, people who live near the water know how to swim. This assumption would seem logical, but this isn't a matter of fact, obviously from this thread alone. I have never lived near a body of water (although I would love to), and I have known how to "swim like a fish" since I was 8 years old. My fiancee lives in Davao and didn't know how to swim!

[Caryh 5,206]

Maybe it is BS or maybe not? It is a stereotype after all, and GOD only knows where it originated. A generalization is just that. For example, people who live near the water know how to swim. This assumption would seem logical, but this isn't a matter of fact, obviously from this thread alone. I have never lived near a body of water (although I would love to), and I have known how to "swim like a fish" since I was 8 years old. My fiancee lives in Davao and didn't know how to swim!

My wife grew up in Davao and literally lived over the water growing up, yet she didn't know how to swim when I met her. I've been to Davao a lot and it seems like very few there know how to swim. It might be a regional thing, where some areas people are more likely to know how to swim than other areas.

[Tahoma 2,292]

How about your wife, does she know how to swim?

Yup...and she does it with style.

[marklovetina 52]

same here dont know how to swim... afraid of cruise.. afraid of big ships...

[DaveE 178]

My wife and step daughter can't swim, and we have a pool. The really don't seem to be interested in learning, and just splash around the shallow end. They look at the diving board as if it is the enemy.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

No and it surprised me with all the water they have. she said they were too busy working