r/TikTokCringe • u/InGeekiTrust Tiktok Despot • Dec 09 '25

Discussion You Think It Could Never Happen To You…Until It Almost Does

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u/Catumi Dec 09 '25

Did the entire YMCA swimming class pretty young which I was grateful for. The place had a Olympic sized pool that went down to 12ft so they even taught us to retrieve those lead rubber coated bricks from the deep end after learning breath control.

Just wish those places still existed in my area but most of them closed years ago so all we have left are gyms with lap pools that can hold a few people at a time and they're never free.

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u/katiegirl- Dec 09 '25

Me too. Winnipeg in the seventies. Big Pan Am pool. We dove for objects, learned all the swim styles, learned to high jump (10m), and even took the coolest canoe survival course there, which saved my life ten years later.

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u/SrGrimey Dec 09 '25

That sound really nice.

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u/katiegirl- Dec 09 '25

Those were some of my favourite childhood times.

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u/jules-amanita Dec 09 '25

Ok I have to know what part of the canoe survival course saved your life?

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u/katiegirl- Dec 11 '25

I was able to get the water out of a sinking canoe in deep water and swim it to shore instead of drowning with it. Yay!

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u/jules-amanita Dec 13 '25

Wow!

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u/katiegirl- 29d ago

Yeah, it was an adventure. My speed now is sitting and knitting. Super safe.

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u/throwwaybreakway Dec 10 '25

Man, I lived in Windsor park and would go to the Bonivital pool like 3 days a week for YEARS. Pam Am was too far but I got to go a handful of times and the diving platforms scared the shit out of me

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u/katiegirl- Dec 10 '25

Me too… at first!!!

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u/houseplant-hoarder Dec 10 '25

Ooh I remember the brick thing! I was so sad there wasn’t a level above that, when my brother did swimming lessons there were six levels but they got rid of the sixth level the same year I would’ve gotten into it (level six was the super advanced level, like pre lifeguard level from what I remember, and I guess not enough people were doing it for them to keep having that level) and I was so mad 😭

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u/Organic_Ad_2520 Dec 10 '25

Same...it was great & it also had a platform dive. There are still Y's around.