I am one of those people in ita's krav classes that where she would say " put your feet this way" , I 'd say ok, look down and relizes my feet are doing nothing like what I think they are. So it took me a long time to learn to swim well. and to ride a bike. and to ice skate. That fact that I went to one capoeira class, is a big deal. That fact that if it was closer , I might have gone again - is amazing. Because it would have been a very long road ( they were amazed that I could not do a cartwheel)

eta: I think extra letters are attracted to my posts today.

OY. Somehow the line between me helping manage a project and being an admin assistant seems to be lost on one of my co-workers. I wonder how to give him a chance to behave before ratting him out. Because this is just annoying.

I loved to swim when I was younger but I would never swim in deep water. This is partly because of fear and partly because my legs just aren't strong enough to make me a really good swimmer.

I'm a SJ-hata

I admit I was skimming when I saw this and wonder what I did to make ita hate me.

didn't grow up near water, learned in pools when young, never had our own pool, never became a really good swimmer, don't like lakes or the ocean because there are things in the water, deep wide pools affect some form of vertigo in me if I look down, so swimming across them becomes a bit of a battle of my will. No idea why.

I'm now wanting to continue to ask about childhood skills. Cause now I wanna know what I think of the norm and whether they really are the norm. Like, can you ride a bike? Do a cartwheel? Catch, throw, hit a ball? Jump rope? Skate? Any other skill I didn't mention?

Like, can you ride a bike? Do a cartwheel? Catch, throw, hit a ball? Jump rope?

Yes to all but the cartwheel, provided that we're talking about childhood skills rather than adult ones.

Like, can you ride a bike? Do a cartwheel? Catch, throw, hit a ball? Jump rope?

No, no, kinda, sorta, no, yes.

And I can rollerskate, but now it scares me.

Yes, Childhood I think. I can still do cartwheels, but I'm a freak. Cartwheels are, I think, gendered.

Have you ever tried to teach an adult to swim? Not inconsiderable.

No, but I've never tried to teach an adult to pat her head while rubbing her belly, either.

I do remember learning to locomote with my head under water (as opposed to the generalized doggy-crawl) at about age seven, because I gave myself a black eye due to locomoting with my eyes closed, directly into the wall of the pool.

In fact, it is the only black eye I have ever had.

I can ride a bike, but it's been decades. I grew up in the country, and distances, hills and roads without shoulders kept me from going far. Can jump rope. Fairly incompetent with a ball. Cartwheels are a mystic art to which I have not been initiated.