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LESSON II.

Leason, two begins where Lesson one | Reaves off, that is, at the dead man's Hort:"

Fasson two takes up the army movement and before you attempt it in the water it should be thoroughly master-

Take a trip, if you will, to the bathing benches around Hongkong and the welled on land,

Your trip to the different beaches would known places in the nearby islands, the reveal to you that most of the swimmera places patronized by the majority are around here use the breast and side | Repulse Bay, Big Ware Bay, Clear Water spokes The breast strike is a horrid Bay. T.R.C., North Point, Kennedy) one. You have to swim-arcund with your Town. Stonecutters, Castle Peak and hent cooked back while you strain "the [Cheung Chow. If one were to take

life out of the musclés in the neck. Your a crnins of the swimmers who frequent jogenre stretched all over the place as all of these places he would probably find you try to imitates that difficult kick of about ten thousand. Just think the frogs. Your arms are pulled out to thousand out of a possibl», 800.00 or the sides "making vrecyons give way to, more The question b. why are there

you a greatest of all curses, the res not more swimmers? The answer is thesistance as presented by the chest and spirit is willing ant the flesh is weak thighs is enough to say anyone's strength gindly would they wil splash in the water if he tries to get hywhere. Taken er get out where they can feel the swell altogether it is the get difficult of or have loads of fan with a water polostrokes, it is not at all natural, is is ball, but, alas! they cannot swim. They extremely slow and awkward. To try to are nirait the water!

teach a beginner the breast stroke is, a In view of the crying need of an 1997 | grime. No wonder it takes sans of you way to learn to swim, one which abolishes. so long ta swia, The most harmful all fear of the water, one which applies thing you can do to a person learning to to all men, women and children alike. sin is to support them in the water: ?! the writer presents, the following method gives them- a file sense of support and ly which more than a thousand in Hong this is equally true of water wings and kong have been traght in the past two buys. They will learn a thousand times months and many hundreds more in pust faster without any support whatever if they are taught the right method and that is the dead man's float," first.,

Fenrs.

Working upon the principle that all non-swinters are afraid of the water, we Best should set about, to abolish this fear and to establish confidence in yourself and in the ability of the water to do its part.

The side stroke is more valuable than the breast stroke because it is more east fortable, is faster and is a valuable asset in life sowing. The scissors Rick. while rather difficult to get it perfect, Oh can learn the essentials of should by learned by all swimmers. But swimining with only a washbasin and both the breast stroke and side stroke: room enough to ding the arms and legs are harder to learn than the "crawl" about Fon cannot get rid of the fear and as our object is to teach the beginner of the water anless you get in it, feelin as short a time as possible, we will it, be covered with it, and at times even forge then how mud simply suggest that drink it. A child when it first sees after you have learned to swims you can dog, is very afraid of it and usually learn the other strokes. They will come. eries though fear. But let him pat the dog, or hold it, and immediately all fear of the dhimal is gone. The Bame

Coming back to the arm stroke on land acalogy holds true for water: when varor and trill. The preliminary" pove you have learned that you can keep your ment is similar to this movement of the eyes open under water without barming windmill. We will try the stroke with them, and that by taking a big breath, putting the face in the water and then stretching out, that you will font-well,

the rest of it is easy.

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LESSON. I.

So the very first thing you should do is to get out in the water to a little above the hips. place the hands on the knees and then after taking a big breath through the myul, slowly put the face into the water. Now take it out again and without raising the head let the water run off the face. Do not touch it with the hands! Repeat several times and then rest a bit to relieve your tense muscles. There is no doubt that they will be tense. One of the most important things in swimming is relaxation: so begin right now and relax take it easy Always face the shore in learning to swim.

thousand times easier after you have learned the principles of swimming.

one arm first and then with both. Bend at the waist and place the left-hand on the knee and the right hand stretched out in front Keep the fingers together palm down and the hand slightly cupped." Now with the arm straight, pull directly downward until the hand comes to the hip, raise the elbow higher than the shoulder and at the same time carry the arm around for the beginning of another stroke. The hand must not be brought under the ana pit in the recovery of the stroke. It should be carried out to the side so that there is only a small bend at the elbow. Repeat until the movement becomes smooth and not jerky. Always enter the water with the finger tips, arta straight, and on a line from the shoulder not close to the head. Now try the same with the left" hand; right hand on the right knee. After both arms have been.

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loosened up to the movement you are With your hands on your knees as he ready to use both at the same time. Begin fore, take a big breath, lower the head with either arm in frost and the other. into the water and open the eyes. Look stretched out the rear with the palm, up. around for a few seconds and see if you Now slowly make the Stroke with one art can see any white shells or your toes. while the other is carried around for Raise the head and let the water run off stroke. Co slowly until the movement is the face with the eyes open. Repeat several thoroughly mastered. Do not roll the times, until you know that you have no shoulders too much. Keep the chest fear of opening the eyes or having the straight to the trout. The head should face in the water. Now with the face in be lowered between the arms and not the water and the eyes open, take the turnest in either direction. The breathing hands off the knees and try to pick up comes later.

a white shell or touch your toes. I- You are now ready for the water. mediately if you are thinking, there Wade out until the water is a little above comes to you the sense of the buoyancy the waist, face the shora and repeat the of the water. This should be followed up land drill in the water. First che amm, by a few simple tests so as to eliminate then the other, then both, all the time. all fear of the inability of the water to standing still with the face out of the support you if you only let it. The first water. Do not hasten the stroke. Always

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test is the turtle float." After putting keep the arins one-half circle apart. Now exhaled and another breath taken, Prac member the essential thing is to exile the fare in the water and opening the with face in the water, eyes open. move tice this first by exhaling out of the water what you have taken in, then you will eyes, slowly draw the legs up underneath both arms until you sense the muove until the co-ordination is learned. With have the need of more. Later on you will you; to your amazement you find that you ment. This should be repeated several your hands on your kases practice exhal- be able to take more and with less diffi do float: This should be done without times standing still. and then a numbering in the water. The queer bubbles will culty. Finally, it will all come to you a jump, because jumping will make your of times walking slowly along the shore. body sink below the surface and before If you keep your eyes open you will not it has time to come back to the surface, wander into deep water. you begin to think you are lost and let Having mastered this you are ready to loose of your legs. Test number two and do the main thing in lesson two, that is, last is simply stretching nut straight with your arms out in front, shoulder with combining the arm movement with the "dead man's float, Do. a couple apart and the legs straight and "fect Loats so the feel comes back to together. It is understood that the face must be in the water all the time and you. Now get a good push off from the bottom and after your body has come to big breath taken beforehand.

the surface begin the arm movement. After gaining confidence in the buoy Move the arms slowly, inake complete aney of the water, the main object of strokes every time; no clawing," do not the first lesson comes to hand, that is move the legs, and be sure the head is thedead man's float." A drowned low enough in the water and the eyes woman floats face upwards, but a drown open. Practice, practice, practice. ed nan floats face downward. They say Having mastered lemon two, you had it is because he is ashamed of himself better call it a day and go home to The dead man's float" is lying stretch think it over or perhaps spank yourself ed out on the water, with the head in the for not having done its long time ago.. water and between the outstretched arms, feet together and leg and body all in á straight line. Practice the float by Lesson three, and the last one, to fer crouching down until the water is up to your shoulders, then take a big breath us the beginner is concerned, involves two put the face into the water and push off fundamentals, the breathing and the leg. from the bottom. You will find that you kick. The breathing will be dealt with can coast fifteen feet with very little first. In the first lesson, you learned to effort. Be sure to push in the line with take your breath through your mouth. the water and not up in the air because This applies throughout your swimming you will come down fat and not coust life. The breath is exhaled through the nose. This is the part which can be at all Practice, practice, practice” on this until you do not care if you sink or practiced in a basin of water at home. It not. Do it with muscles relaxed, eyes is a fundamental which must be thorough open and a good straight position in the ly mastered or your efficiency as a swim water. When the "dead man's float is mer will be nil. Take the breath off of You now come to the main thing in the are left to grapple with them naaided learned there is nothing to the rest. You one shoulder by turning the bead slightly third lesson, that is, the combination of Come and get the benefit of our Scientifo have abolished all fear of the water by to the side. The breath is taken with the arms, legs and breathing. First get method of Sight Testing and modern becoming thoroughly acquainted with it gasp. It is then turned back through the good"float" and "push-off, then equipment. Let us give you an socurate We generally say a person ought to same plane and exhaled: slowly through start the legs thrashing" and then the knowledge of the condition of your eye learn by this method, in three lessons, the nose. Just before the last of the arms After you have mastered the co

CHINESE OPTICAL COM so if you have learned the float the breath is exhaled, the ad is quickly ordination of the legs and arms you

67, Queen's Road, C first day it is better to leave well enough turned to the side where the remainder is should then bring in the breathing Try alone, and savo lessen two for the next time when you may not be so tired (Continued at foot of next columg.)] to get one or two breaths at first but re-

acon écase to bother you and if the face with ease and for the first time in your is submerged to the ears the bubbles will life you will experience that thrill of be practically eliminated. When you achievement and joy of having conquered bave gotten used to the new sensations a long feared for. and have learned to grab your breath This may seem a long way of telling you cff your shoulder you are then ready to the one or two fundamentals in cack lesson, combine the arms and the breathing. The but the details are essential so that you breath should be taken as the arm finished progress gradually and slowly abolishi the stroke and exhaled as the arm is car fear which is not an easy enemy to tied around and the stroke completed."down"Follow the system carefully. Breathe on one side only. Do not raise and learn bas lesson each day. If you are the head, it is simply turned to the side not satisfied with one lesson, do not pass. The faster the arm stroke the faster you on to the next. You only harm yourself. must take your breath. Go slow at first. in the end. If you are an apt pupil you You may breathe at every other stroke will learn in three lessons in three days. so as to give yourself more time. In If you are a bit slow with lesson one, de speed swimming you braathe less often not be discouraged; it is the hardest of an in ordinary swimming. It is best alt because of the new senaations. The for the beginner to learn to breatho at other two lessons will come much easier. every stroke

Above all let me-emphasize, Follow the Last but not least is the leg kick. The System 1.

A. E. DOW movement is of a thrashing" kind and comes from the hips. The knees are bent slightly. The fett are kept close together. The thrash" is up and down in the

IF YOU REQUIRE GLASSES verticle, plane. In swimming it devintes: somewhat to the side when the breath is

You need them now. To postpone the taken. Get in shallow water where, you can put your hands on the bottom and aaring of glasses because of groundless keep the face out. Practice the movement prejudice, is to take risk with your oyes, until you.

"feel" it. Now practice it To begin to care for your eyes to-day is from "dead man's float, You should better than to-morrow Ons eye, if not be able to make considerable progress with both, may be alightly defective, and defects can only grow wore it the eyes the lega alode,

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