10  SWIMMING  SIMPLIFIED


CONTENTS

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I.     The  Method  of  Procedure  ix  Learxixg  or  Teaching

Swimming   13

The  Alethod  of  Procedure  for  Men  or  Boys  Over  Twelve

Years    of    Age 13

The    Method    of    Procedure    for    Women    and    Girls    Over

Twelve   Years   of    Age 14

The    Method    of    Procedure    for    Children    from    Six    to

Twelve   Years    of    Age 14

II.     The  Beginner's   First  Lessons 19

First  Steps  in  Overcoming  the  Fear  of  the  Water 19

Learning  to  Breathe  Correctly 20

Body    Balance    23

III.     Analysis  of  the  Various  Swimming  Strokes 43

The    Elementary    Back    Stroke 43

The  Shefifield   Sculling   Stroke    51

The   Under-Arm-Side-Stroke    56

The    Single-Over-Arm-Side-Stroke    64

The    Trudgeon    or    Double-Over-Arm-Stroke 69

The    Trudgeon-Crawl    76

The    Preliminary-Crawl    80

The    Crawl    84

The  Australian-Crawl    93

The   Racing-Back  or   Alternate   Over-Arm-Back-Strokc.  .  .  93

^-^        The  Breast  Stroke   98

(^^IVy  Racing   Turn^Treading  Water — Plunge   for   Distance....  105

V.     Diving    7^09

The  Rudiments  of  Diving 109

Elementary  Divmg   110

Advanced   Diving    114

VL     Life   Saving    121

The  Alethod  of  Procedure  for  an  Actual  Rescue 122

Preliminary  Live  Saving  Drills 128

The  Break  and  Carrj^  Methods — Land  Drills 130

The  Break  and  Carry  Methods— Water  Drills 137

Schafer  Method  of  Resuscitation 138

Dr.  Sheffield's  Method  of  Resuscitation 140

VII.     The  Safety  Valve  and  the  Swimming  and  Life-Saving  Tests  145

VIII.    Water  Sports 150

IX.     Suggestions  to  Instructors 157


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LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS

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Fig.  3— First  Steps  in  Overcoming  the  Fear  of  the  Water.  Figs.  1
and  2— Learning  to  Breathe  Correcth^  Figs.  4  and  5 — Body  Bal-
ance.    Face  submerged-floating,  first  position 21

Body  Balance.  Figs.  1  and  2 — Warming-up  exercise — the  crawl-kick.
Figs.  3,  4  and  5 — Land  drill  for  attaining  standing  position  from
face-submerged-floating 25

Body  Balance.  Fig.  1 — Face-submerged-floating,  second  position.
