SWIMMING INSTRUCTION.
TO THX lOITOK. Sin, —I was very glad to see Mr Hanna’s letter in Tuesday’s Times, concerning swimming instruction, aa I believe be is absolutely right about the evil effects of this "crawl” stroke, so popular nowadays. I have noticed one boy at least, who used to be specially well developed, become flatchested. and with shoulders pushed forward, einoo he started learning to ewim, with hia class, at the Municipal Baths: last year. Ho has certainly got on very well, as far as speed and distance go, but evidently at the expense of what is worth far more—viz,, a straight back and an arched cheat. If this has been happening, more or less, to all the boys and girls who have been learning to swim at the Y'.M.C.A. and Municipal Baths of late years, it is a very unfortunate thing for their physical and I trust those in authority will consider the matter seriously and take immediate steps to see that it is put right. As far as I have been able to judge, breast and back _ swimming have been given very little attention, whereas they should have come first of all.—l am., etc., Basil Hooper.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18535, 21 April 1922, Page 7
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