SWIMMING METHODS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 78, 2 April 1927, Page 14

SWIMMING METHODS.

NEW ZEALAND BEHIND TIMES. AMERICAN DIVES. .1 By !T<jlesraph— Special to "Star.") DUNEDIN, this day. In a letter, Mr. lE. H. Olds, formerly custodian-: and coach at the Dunedin Municipal; Baths, states that the American swimming authorities are very strict with the 1 , breast stroke, and he thinks the stroke -will be worked out altogether within a" year or so. "Americans don't like it," he writes, "and it has to go. There are too many arguments over the proper style, etc." Speaking of diving the ex-Dunedin coach states that he came across Dave Fall, a beautiful diver, at Stanford University, California. His voluntary dives are double, and a one ami "a-half cut away, two and a-half Gainer with a half twist (Gainer or Ivlolberg-this is called), half Gainer with full twist, two and ahalf back somersaults and two and ahalf back somersaults/with fiill< twist. The hunch; dive is never seen in America. All single -are- performed with hollbwrbackilSid th& head is never tucked, nor are.liands. to.the side. Olds praises the way the New Zealand meets are conducted, for although he considers. .New. Zealand is a long way behind the times in swimming methods, he thinks New Zealand meets areas well conducted as any in America.