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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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d at the wrist,and as you do so roll sufficiently on yourleft side to bring your mouth above waterfor a breath of air. Bring the arm downjust below the surface and almost parallelto it, until it touches the thigh, then bendit at the elbow and carry it forward cleanly,well above the water until it is on the fullreach again. The left arm may be brought down eitherlike in the side stroke (parallel to the right ence between the two lies in the recoveryof the under arm, though of course thisdifference entails slight changes in theposition of the body and in other details. The third and most recent of strokes,the crawl, while taught in the same man-ner pretty nearly everywhere, seems to takeon much of the individuality of the swim-mer as he becomes proficient, and this hasled many of our experts to believe that wehave only found a type, out of which sev-eral distinct varieties will be evolved aswe know it better. The present method of instruction is tostart the swimmer with body flat on the
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The side stroke—showing the scissor kick. one) or well out to the left, just below thesurface. Distance swimmers usually af-fect the former method, sprinters the lat-ter. As the left arm comes out of water,the body returns to its original position,flat on its face, so as to enable the left armto be brought forward clear of the water,and remains so, until the arm is near thefull reach, when the right arm again startson its downward course. The same kick that is used in the sidestroke, the scissor kick, is used in the trud-geon, and the entire timing of the twostrokes is identical. The only real differ- water, as in the trudgeon, and to makehim keep that way as much as possible,twisting his head only, instead of the wholebody, to take breath. The arms, how-ever, are not held out at full length, butrest on the water slightly bent at the el-bow, the hands at the height of the head.They are brought down with force until nearthe hip and then shot swiftly forward againwithout any pause. Th

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