I was afraid to start up again with the thought that I would have pain. I wanted to give up but knew I was back to what I have a lot of passion for, swimming. I continued to believe and have faith in myself that I can achieve my goal and get back into swimming. Finally fully recovered, I was back to being able to do what I enjoyed. After swimming about a year after my injury and thinking that I was back to normal, I encountered a second shoulder injury.
A boy of approximately 11 years stated, “As long as you’re not afraid of the water, you’re cool. If you can swim real fast that makes you popular. But, no matter what, if you are caught wearing underwear [Speedo] you’re a sissy and no one likes to be around that.” As I looked around, I noticed all the boys wearing trunk-style swimming suits and realized peer pressure is still influencing the actions of pre-teens today as much as it was 10 years ago when I went through the young stage. If I was caught wearing a Speedo by my peers during adolescence, it would have been the end of my popularity too! Between the hours of 3:00 pm and 4:00 pm the YMCA experiences a surge in pool activity.
At any second, one of the eighty-five recreational swimmers could submerge, and never recover to the surface. It’s up to the lifeguard to make sure that doesn’t happen. When we think of life-saving careers, we picture doctors and police officers-rarely lifeguards. Instead, we envision the Baywatch beach run with the renowned red bathing suit or perhaps a tan teenager slumped in his lifeguarding chair, polarized sunglasses cocked just enough so that his closed lids are visible. As a pool protector, Geena Carey-a friendly seventeen-year-old with a sharp mind and bright smile-can relate.
We would play a game where we dragged two tubes behind the boat and we would try to see how many times we could successfully transfer from one to another. Unfortunately, I was not the winner of this game. Many of the time the passing water would catch me and drag my body off of the tubes. We left the lake a little sun burnt and sore but still had a great time. June 09, 2012 Today at work was
The water being cool for my wife and me, we were hesitant to enter on it. The children started to splash water on us. We decided afterward to join them in the water. After that everybody went to different part of the water park, the first one was called Adventure River that was a tube down 1,000 foot, encountering waterfalls, where water bursts and geysers along the way. The next one was called big Kahuna in which we hop on the four slide inner table complex and get propelled down a criss-crossed course into a pool
My confidence plays a big role in the person I am today. Freshman year was based on hard work and trying new things. This taught me to be in control. The work was not going to get done for me so to succeed I was the one who had to push myself and take over. Being a part of drill team has helped me with control by helping others in learning routines or chants with taking charge when others do not.
Marlin was able to escape and win the game. When he then looked back for Dory, he couldn't find her anywhere. This portrayed brave action of Marlin because he went back to save Dory knowing the danger he could be in when he clearly could've left her and save himself. After the horrid experience with the jelly fish, they got saved by the group of sea turtles. Marlin and Dory befriended with the turtles and Marlin got advice from Crush in parenting.
Such self-motivation was new to me, but the accompanying work ethic that I had gained through swimming soon carried into my academic life: I started taking more honors classes and spending more time on homework, instead of video games. I simply strived harder in class, going from being an average student in elementary school to a straight A’s student in junior high. Unfortunately, swimming’s positive impact was short-lived; soon, it started affecting my life negatively. Entering freshman year at a new school, I was lost. School wasn't a priority for me, swimming was.
I felt as thought I had last more then just my arm, I thought that my hopes and dreams to become a pro-surfer and adventure the world were stripped away. At first I was hesitant about everything but I was mainly just scared. I was scared that I was never going to be able to get back on my board and surf. I was terrified of sharks as you would imagine, but I was more afraid of not ever being able to surf ever again. Some days I would come out of the water crying, but I just kept at it.
It was my first time so I was nervous. I didn’t think you would find much in the river cause it a river. Usually you see people on TV scuba diving in an ocean, like on the beaches in Hawaii or anywhere in general. The instructor who was showing us how to scuba told us, since thousands of people from all over come to the river a lot of valuable items are dropped by tubers every day. We put our scuba gear on, and begin the hunt to the river’s floor, to pick up left behind treasures.