alyssa
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Post by alyssa on Feb 7, 2012 19:41:54 GMT -5
Any other swimmers here? I am an avid swimmer, diving instructor, and certified lifeguard. I have also been waterskiing, jet skiing, and body boarding. I tried surfing once ten years ago on Huntington Beach, and the results were comical. Perhaps if I could have kept at it...too bad the beaches around here suck.
When I go to Puerto Rico next month I'm determined to fulfill a bucket list desire...SCUBA diving. Gonna be obsessed with it until then. I will jump in the sea every day I am there in some way shape or form...I should have been a fish.
So yeah, I put this in Sports since to me, swimming is my favorite sport.
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Post by Ka on Feb 7, 2012 20:38:05 GMT -5
SO MUCH THIS! i've been swimming/rafting/cliff jumping in the new river since i was old enough to sneak off and find a ride down into the gorge. i like wakeboarding...i'm not really good at it, but i don't do it that often. i would love to live close to the ocean. that's an ultimate goal of mine and jason's.
i took a SCUBA class in college for one credit hour, but it was just in the kanawha river. i'd love to go diving in the ocean.
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Post by alyssa on Feb 7, 2012 21:32:26 GMT -5
White water rafting is something I've always also wanted to do...maybe not as much as SCUBA diving but still...gotta get to the mid-southwest for that. I have almost taken SCUBA classes here several times, but they are cheapest in early spring, when it is still rather cold, with a culminating dive in Boston Harbor, which is nowhere near as seductive as PR--which offers the same package at the same price. This must happen. Is the tank as weightless underwater as is purported?
The wings on my back were 1/3 inspired by swimming--it's as close as I can come to flying without mechanical aid.
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Post by Ka on Feb 7, 2012 23:07:22 GMT -5
i'm planning on rafting the upper gauley river this october for the first time (class V+), but i need to get into way better shape. i did the lower gauley, which is somewhat tamer, two-a-day last fall a couple times and slept for fifteen hours after both times. if our money situation allows it, i'd like to do the two day trip and go over the falls at the end. this means more weight lifting and running and lots of other things, i think.
yes, definitely. my buoyancy in the freshwater was pretty neutral, but i'm guessing it'd be somewhat different in saltwater. my experience is pretty limited.
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Post by emmeth on Feb 8, 2012 9:10:24 GMT -5
I've never done any kind of rafting or kayaking. I do love swimming to work out. Maybe this summer I can enjoy some additional water sports stuffs.
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Post by apathy on Feb 8, 2012 13:30:48 GMT -5
SWIMMING IS MY FAVORITE! My parents had a pool in their backyard since I was 13, and lived in a neighborhood with a community pool for as long as I can remember. I used to be an incredibly fast swimmer, and would've been on the swim team, had there been such a thing at my high school. I've been whitewater rafting. My dad took us through the biggest rapids in the river and scared the shit out of me (possibly increased because I fell into a rapid used in the 1996 Olympic games). I really want to go kayaking, although the thought of it scares me (which is why I want to do it). I'd LOVE to go SCUBA diving. I hope Dillon gets stationed near the ocean  |
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Post by Ka on Feb 8, 2012 14:12:09 GMT -5
oh man, kayaking. i've only been twice, but i'm hooked. if i had a place to store one, i'd have my own. i was scared to death that i was going to drown in the double z, but i didn't.  i actually read this before i went: paddling.about.com/od/destinations/a/New_River.htmi knew all of this, but i was really nervous. |
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Post by alyssa on Feb 8, 2012 17:34:28 GMT -5
Wow, Ka. That looks intense, but awesome!
My family goes canoeing from time to time. I haven't been kayaking since summer camp. It's something I should look into; it would be a great way to build up arm strength, of which I sorely lack, and would come in handy on a whitewater ride. The problem is, the only place I could do it with any regularity in the Charles River, and I'm TERRIFIED of capsizing in it. I don't think I'd ever feel clean again.
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Post by apathy on Feb 8, 2012 20:25:50 GMT -5
Relevant to my avatar.
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Post by michaelson on Feb 8, 2012 23:08:37 GMT -5
Growing up, my grandparents and my aunt had pools and were within a 20 minute drive of my house. So I was a fish back then. And I'd always used to try to swim as many lengths without coming up for air.
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Post by Ka on Feb 9, 2012 0:46:39 GMT -5
When we rafted, we did the upper and middle Ocoee river, in Tennessee. I fell in at Godzilla. There is photographic evidence. Here's the link if anyone wants to go, it's really great rafting (we did the upper and middle river) www.ocoee-river.net/whitewater.htmli have a feeling that after i do the upper gauley, i'll go looking for new adventures, so i'll check it out. i've only fallen out a few times, but one of them was in a hydraulic like Godzilla, so they had to tow me in. the other times weren't awful. a few of the rapids on the lower new are swimmable, so people jump out on their own. |
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Post by january on Feb 9, 2012 20:53:58 GMT -5
I love white water rafting!!! Todd is completely water phobic (the guy can't swim at all) so I almost never set foot in a pool anymore... unless you count the city wading pool around the corner from my house.
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Post by emmeth on Feb 20, 2012 3:48:10 GMT -5
I could spend a weekend in Bear Lake and kayak for relatively cheap. However, Bear Lake tends to eat people alive, so that's a little off-putting.
I don't know. I might try it during the summer.
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