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From "Swimming" by Edwin Brewster (1910)

Diving Styles And Benefits
Diving Styles And Benefits Diving Ought Properly To Come Swimming. Most Little Boys Learn To Dive First, And To Swim Afterwards; And There Is No Reason Why Everybody Should Not Follow This Order. At Any Rate, Every Swimmer Must Learn To Dive. It Is The Only Proper Way Of Entering ...

Floating
Floating, Also, May Well Precede Swimming. Many Persons Master It At The First Trial ; Every One Should Learn The Knack As Early As May Be, For It Helps With The Swimming, And Gives The Learner Confidence. It Is, Moreover, A Most Val Uable Accomplishment. With It, The Tired Or ...

Introduction To Edwim Brewster
Introduction To Edwim Brewster The Present Fashion Of Doing One's Pleasure-swimming With A Racing Stroke Has So Far Transformed The Practice Of The Ancient Art That The Older Books On The Subject Have Become Obsolete. On The Other Hand, The Few Books Now On The Market That Are Recent Enough ...

Introduction To Swimming
Introduction To Swimming To Be A Real Swimmer, It Behooves Them To Begin Right. With Just Which Stroke It Is Best To Begin, Is By No Means Clear. Tradition Is For The Old Breast-stroke. In Certain Ways, However, This Is The Worst Of All Possible Strokes For The Beginner, As ...

Other Swimming Strokes
Other Swimming Strokes The Fact Is, The Number Of Possible Strokes Is Pretty Large, So That Any Ingenious Person Can Invent Them By The Handful. There Are Three Ways Of Using The Legs, And Four Or Five Ways Of Using The Arms.. The Body May Travel On Side, Breast, Or ...

Teaching Children To Swim
Teaching Children To Swim Teaching Swimming To Children Under Eight Or Ten Years Of Age Offers A Problem Of Peculiar Difficulty. They Have So Little Voluntary Attention And Self-consciousness, That They Can Ther Put Their Minds Steadily On Their Work, Nor Direct Accurately The Ments Of Their Own Members. Worse ...

The Back Stroke Swimming
The Back Stroke Swimming No One Stroke, However, Is Good For All Occasions And For All Purposes. Swimming-strokes Are Like Clothes ; One Does Not Get On Comfortably With Only One Suit. If The Side-stroke Is The Day Garment Of The Swimmer, The Old Trousers And Sweater In Which He ...

The Breast Stroke Swimming
The Breast Stroke Swimming He Old Breast-stroke Has In These Days So Completely Gone Out Of Fashion That To Many Persons It Seems No Longer Worth Learning At All. In Fact, Many Experts Nowadays Do Not Know How To Swim It. Still, It Does Have Certain Tages Over All Other ...

The Crawl Swimming Stroke
The Crawl Swimming Stroke The Crawl Is The Newest And The Fast Est Of All Swimming-strokes. It Is Essentially A Racing-stroke. The Head Is Under Water Most Of The Time, So That With All Its Speed There Is Little Fun In Swimming It. At The Same Time, It Does Have ...

The Side Stroke Swimming
The Side Stroke Swimming There Is Much Sound Sense In The Ancient Admonition Not To Go Into The Water Until You Know How To Swim. Certain Of The Finer Points Of Swimming Are, Naturally, Best Acquired Afloat ; But The Foundation Of The Art, The Fundamen Tal Principles Of The ...

The Trudgeon Swimming Stroke
The Trudgeon Swimming Stroke The King Of All Strokes, However, Is The Trudgeon. It Is The Fastest Of All Those Which There Is Any Fun In Swimming. It Is The One Stroke Which Gives The Highest Speed With The Least Exertion : It Is The One Stroke Which Is Suited ...