Here's a thread devoted to water sports.

So... anyone else surf? Where do ya go? Any fave locations? do you body/wake board, windsurf or just surfing...

Eee, I go sailing with my dad when we go on holiday. It's wicked! Except once we were out on quite a big boat, bigger than a laser, and we went past the marker for where the holiday resort ended. So we were out sailing into the open sea, and we only realised like 10 minutes after we passed it. So he were like "shit, what about insurance!!" and me and my brother were like "shit, what about the SHARKS!". So dad tried to turn round but he capsized! And me and dad fell into the water and the boat turned over and then we were floating around and I was shitting myself about if there were sharks and my dad couldn't find Patrick and he was diving under the water and shouting his name and then we heard a faint "I'm up here!" and he was attatched onto the boat! He didn't want to go into the water because of the sharks! So dad forced him to come down and then we were stuck in the middle of the ocean with a huge upturned boat and no idea what to do next.


So dad tried to upturn the boat but the boat wasn't having any of it, and then we heard like this chainsaw noise and me and Patrick were still crapping ourselves about chainsaw wielding sharks, and then a rescue boat came!! It was a big orange speedboad and we were so thankful. But about 1 minute before it reached us, its power cut out. It had broken down! So they had to call for another rescue boat. And thankfully we were all safe from the evil sharks and we were back on dry land in no time.



I have more stories including when I was hit by a speed boat! But those are for another day...

Waterskiing!!
and tubing!
Still learning the wakeboarding... I'll have it by the end of summer.

Swimming is the best sport. I love being in the water, it's like you're flying. Just gives you a sense of weightlessness =)

i can't swim.

I love to swim, but i don't go any more

And umm, i usually go body boarding each summer at black rock beach in cornwall, its a big surfing beach, you get loads of different stuff going on there

I think I've been there I normally just bodyboard down at Sandbanks... it's a huge beach and the harbour's beautiful, but the surf ain't that good Though when you get a really strong winds blowing onshore it's awesome!

I love boating. My family has a boat and we go tubing, waterskiing (I'm terrible at it though, I can't ever get up.) And love going boogie-boarding at the beach. I've always wanted to try surfing. And I go to Ocean City, New Jersey.

I'm scared of surfing! I tried...and no, I don't like it

I bodyboard
but guess what? i used to live in Japan, but we moved to Illinois, USA. No ocean!

I love swimming. I try to swim everyday

As for surfing I did it years ago but I don't do it anymore.

*cough*Come Hawaii*cough*

I love to swim, but only for fun. Competitions take the fun out of swimming.

same And also swimming in the sea is way more fun than in a pool - unless the pool has a wave machine

i love sailing... it's really fun, except for when i forget to wear gloves to run the spinnaker line.... it's only really fun in its really windy tho, and the boat heels over so it's almost vertical

swimming's pretty fun too... and diving.

hey i absolutely love swimming, i have been swimming for almost 9 years this August. is there any swimmers out there, just want to know.

I love swimming too. I do it since i was 4 years old. It´s the best sport for your body and it´s very healthy...
I can´t live without it.

yes, swimming helps a lot of your body and swimming can be very social as well

i love swimming i love that dolphin swim its so coool to do

i am soo fucking scared of surfing. i saw this show and they showed this surfing competition where the guy had a shark seriously two feet away from the tail and it was falling him while he was on a wave. but he didn't realize it until he saw the tape.

i love to swim... i swim every day, but saturday.... i swim at Bolles (don't know if any of you have heard of it, but it is the best team in the state!!!)


it finally paid off... I got a full ride to Pfeiffer University in NC!!!!

I love swimming. It's so awesome.
We have a boat, so I've tried water skiing. It's much harder then it looks like.



That's so cool.
I wish it was wormer here so I could swim more often.

I'm on the Varsity swim team

swimming is my favorite activity/sport to do. I dunno I just love going underwater and jumping into it and stuff.

I do bodyboard

i love swimming ! my dad windsurfs and me and my friend tried it once , but its soo hard !

I love smimming and waterskiing. Water is the best element in this world...

I wanna go swimming And I have no time for that.

very much so - I swim for loughborough university and train 8 times a week with 3 land training sessions.
loving it tbh

I used to do swimming all the time. Racing, not as leisure.
I don't race anymore though, I decided to quit.
My coach that I had, was the most arrogant bastard I have ever met.
He used to be so pushy at training. Asshole. u_u

Any who, I've 7 medals for my age division.

Gold 200m Freestyle.
Gold 300m Freestyle.
Gold 100m Breaststroke.
Silver 100m Freestyle
Silver 100m Backstroke.
Silver 50m Freestyle. x 2


Ehh.. I'm good at Freestyle, I guess. :\

Woah, congrats Melly!

Haha, thanks!

Go Melly.

Thanks, Guy!

Now I Wish It Waz Summer
o and congrats melly

Wow! That's really cool! Congrats, Melly

Congrats, Melly!

I've caused a commotion in this thread.
Thanks everyone!

very cool
I can only do breastroke lol
got into the commonwealth games trials in 2005 with 100brst
that's my claim to fame lol
just looking for national times this year

I can understand why people give up swimming as competitive sport. It's a lot of training.

I surf and I'm on a full college scholarship for swimming


I cannot believe there are swimmers on here, yay!

I love swimming, sailing, canoeing, and kayaking.

I am actually a canoeing and kayaking instructor- best job in th e whole damn world.

That's awesome, I won States last year

Oh wow, congratulations!


Amen to that. I kinda' miss swimming.
But it's kinda' annoying now that I'm older and timings in the month and stuff like that.

I swim It's a cool feeling when you're in the water

Yes! Swimmers are hot
I love swimming it's my favourite and the only sports i can do besides jogging:P
I've been watching the European Swimming Champ. this week. It was awesome.

So me and my mate are planning to go to Devon for a couple of weeks (at least) this summer on a surfing holiday. We figured we might as well buy some boards rather than hiring them for two weeks since even if we don't want to carry on surfing (which I'm hoping we will) after the holiday we can always sell them and it'll work out cheaper, so I'm planning on getting one instead of a bike.

Does anyone know of any good companies that make boards and what sort of board dimensions we'd need (I'm 5"8, about 11 and a half stone, he's 5"11, about 13 stone). All I know is we need longboards since we're both novices but more precisely I'm quite clueless on this stuff. We're hoping to buy some second hand so we don't have to shell out an absolute fortune for new ones but at the moment I have no idea what we're actually paying for, so any advice would be much appreciated!

I can't wait the summer when I am able to swim in the sea. I hate swimming-pools.

Going surfing tomorrow morning!

I'll be swimming on Saturday when I'm going up to my boyfriend's friend's lakehouse in Wisconsin for a party

im a good swimmer but i LOVE windsurfing. i havent experienced that one yet.