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You know what is really great about swimming?

One of the main reasons I like to swim and be in water is that it lets me do things I cannot do or cannot do anymore in real life (IRL). My kids and I have a game at the pool called "do what you cannot do IRL".  We impress each other with manoeuvres that gravity prevents, but water allows.

For example, my handstand days IRL are over (as I painfully discovered), but in water they carry on.

IRL I cannot carry my kids anymore, but I can cradle them comfortably in water.

I can hold myself up with one finger underwater and I can hold onto a rail and be parallel with the floor only in a pool.

I can leap and lean way way back in water.

Swimming makes things possible that are not possible on earth otherwise.

Is there nothing swimming cannot do?

How about you? What can you do in water that you cannot do IRL?


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