The Swimming Savant

Cosmo's approach to the recorded and new swimming strokes, so to have record and literature on endeavor for swimmers as well as for researchers (great bibl index), and further use in citing and trainee compo develop: Double Spanish stroke, Coupe Indienne, Turtoise, Long Trudgeon, Long backstoke, Free Colchian, Ohnukite, Screw-backstroke, Water Stride, Back Double Trudgen, Inverted Bat, Flicker, Ryowa-noshi, Dalton, Long Seaman’s Stroke. The Frenchman Melchisédech Thévenot wrote The Art of Swimming, describing a breaststroke very similar to the modern breaststroke. While the British raced using breaststroke, the Native Americans swam a variant of the front crawl.