So, I want to take a swimming class. I already know how to swim, all the strokes, etc from way back when raquet club swim team crap. Do I have to go through the beginners swimming, etc. since it is a prereq for the others, or can I just sign up for another? What would you suggest as to which one to take? I know I don't want to take Swim Conditioning, I just want to kind of leisurely swim laps.

2/13/2007 11:26:03 AM

i took intermediate beginning swimming for an easy A and then took the 100 level swimming...if you want to leisurely swim laps just go by yourself...the class is a waste of time unless you're doing swim conditioning.

2/13/2007 2:38:10 PM

I never took any of the pre-reqs. It believe it says "or equivalent skills"

Swim conditioning isn't really that bad. The majority of the semester was just swimming laps at our own pace. Sometimes it would be required that you do the laps a certain way like with a kickboard, or a certain stroke, or with just your arms. But I don't think there are any classes where you just swim laps doing whatever you want.

2/13/2007 4:12:52 PM

Are you looking to take it as a PE course, or more of a social activity? And what would you consider in a course that allows you to "leisurely swim laps"? Swim conditioning is just that to a certain extent if you audit it ... just be able to swim the mile in 32 minutes by the end of the semester.

2/13/2007 5:18:57 PM

^depending on your teacher, you might not even need to be able to do that. I had Tom Roberts and if you couldn't swim it in that time, you just had to swim for 30 minutes without stopping and you would get the minimum score for that part of the class.

2/13/2007 7:25:20 PM

I guess I don't mean "leisurely." I just mean I don't want to have to swim ridiculously fast or for a really long time without taking a break.

2/14/2007 1:37:38 PM

i would take swim conditioning then. there we're only a couple times when you have to swim a specified distance as fast as you can. Everything else is just finding your pace and going that.

at the minimum you can sign up for it and try it out for a couple weeks and drop it before the dop deadline if you don't like it.

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2/15/2007 6:31:00 PM

Im in intermediate swimming and if you don't have alot of regular swimming, like club or league on your resume don't join its hard...

2/16/2007 12:02:59 AM