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The irony was not lost on Chris Rock that, for 20 years, he’s had a house with a pool that he couldn’t use because he didn’t know how to swim. But starting in 2020, he finally could. Rock first spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about learning how to swim and adding it to his fitness regimen so he could build his washboard abs. “Do you know how f***ing hard it is for a grown-up to learn how to swim? You’ve got to not be scared to die,” he said. “The other day, this guy says to me, ‘OK, you’re going to dive into the deep end and swim to the other side,’ and I’m like, ‘Are you f***ing crazy?’ But then I dove into the deep end and I swam to the other side.”
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Rock said much of learning how to swim is learning how to relax and just let go — “a perfect metaphor for life,” as he’d described on “The Howard Stern Show.” “You’re just drowning, and you have to learn to let go of things, and you have to learn to relax,” he said. He also described the experience as humbling. “It’s a physical feat but it’s a lot of just letting go,” he continued. “Because you float naturally — a part of you just floats naturally… Well, not as much when you’re Black, but still.”
