Things you have never learned how to do.

[ebikeerwidnes]

Just get someone to push you! 🤣

I would need that anyway

I am weird with heights

Both of the above.

Also, bike tricks - track stands, wheelies, bunny hops... I can ride no handed. At least I used to be able to, but I haven't done so in years.

it depends on the bike to some extent - something about the exact point of balance and the pivot point of the front wheel
or something

anyway - so a rad mountain bike might be almost impossible while a very relaxed touring bike would be easy
or the other way round
whatever

but a wheelie on a bike with full mudguards is not an option anyway

 

[markemark]

use Chopsticks

i have tried and failed every time. they can fork off

Do what my youngest does and do this (except she uses a hairband so no rubber band needed). Its's genius btw.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Both of the above.

Also, bike tricks - track stands, wheelies, bunny hops... I can ride no handed. At least I used to be able to, but I haven't done so in years.

I can bunny hop, it isn't really as difficult as it seems, you just jump and hope the force of you holding the handlebars and/or you being clipped in will make the bike follow you upwards. 🤣

I've never tried to track stand.

Wheelies, I used to do them as a kid, but not in recent years. I should try again. Maybe.

 

[Profpointy]

I can swim but don't enjoy it and would only do it under suffrance as al alternative to drowning.

I was a very poor swimmer though could just about swim having done obligatory swimming lessons in junior school. It did rather hamper some of my caving exploits, not just hamper but make them a bit riskier than ideal, particularly back in the day when a caving lamp required a 6 lbs lead-acid battery in your belt.

Anyhow I did some adult swimming lessons in my 30s and went from being just about OK to swim a length to being able to swim until I was bored, a mile maybe? Big confidence (and safety) boost for caving swims and also more than enough for when I subsequently took up SCUBA diving a few years later.

I'd not have got to "confident-swimmer" status without the lessons

 

[Dogtrousers]

I was a very poor swimmer though could just about swim having done obligatory swimming lessons in junior school.

So I take it that you learned the indispensable skill of making a float out of your pyjama trousers?

This lesson was introduced when the number of pyjama-wearing children involved in swimming accidents reached epidemic proportions.

 

[Profpointy]

So I take it that you learned the indispensable skill of making a float out of your pyjama trousers?

This lesson was introduced when the number of pyjama-wearing children involved in swimming accidents reached epidemic proportions.

Nah, my lessons as a kid were a level or two below that as we basically couldn't swim. As an adult it was just swimming.

Done some SCUBA rescue training but am rather unconvinced that towing a drowned victim whilst attempting "rescue breaths" is really much of a goer, albeit I suppose it could arise for shore diving. For a proper sea dive, the boat should come to you

 

[Andy in Germany]

use Chopsticks

i have tried and failed every time. they can fork off

It takes a certain amount of practice. I can use them but my Japanese brother-in-law can't

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Back flips, landing on my feet.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I was a very poor swimmer though could just about swim having done obligatory swimming lessons in junior school. It did rather hamper some of my caving exploits, not just hamper but make them a bit riskier than ideal, particularly back in the day when a caving lamp required a 6 lbs lead-acid battery in your belt.

Anyhow I did some adult swimming lessons in my 30s and went from being just about OK to swim a length to being able to swim until I was bored, a mile maybe? Big confidence (and safety) boost for caving swims and also more than enough for when I subsequently took up SCUBA diving a few years later.

I'd not have got to "confident-swimmer" status without the lessons

I can swim well

not fast but I can just keep going
as you say - until I get bored

I much prefer to be underwater - it is nice and peaceful there!

I am rubbish at crawl - well actually I can do it perfectly well
I just am rubbish at breathing while doing - which kinda limits how far I can go

butterfly seems like a made up stroke so make the swimming competitions last longer

 

[Dogtrousers]

Whistle by sticking your fingers in your mouth. Blow bubble gum bubbles.

There was a time that these were important skills that I lacked.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Speak German without an accent.

I've also been told I take a "Scatter gun" approach to German pronouns.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Speak German without an accent.

I've also been told I take a "Scatter gun" approach to German pronouns.

Opposite but my ex mother-in-law is Austrian and came over here in the 1950s

it really annoys her that she has never been able to loose her accent
which is even more annoying on the times when she has gone "back home" because it is a very rural accent
so people think of her as a stupid village idiot type person based on it
my ex said it was always funny when they were in Germany and she pretended to not be able to speak German and insisted on speaking in English to ticket inspectors and the like
with a strong Austrian accent

 

[Gwylan]

Do what my youngest does and do this (except she uses a hairband so no rubber band needed). Its's genius btw.

Chopsticks, why the fork was invented

 

[Baldy]

Sing or do anything musical, I just don't get it.

 

[Alex321]

Play a musical instrument. Ride a horse.