This document provides a brief history and evolution of swimming from prehistoric times to modern day. It discusses how swimming began as a means of survival and transportation but was later banned in the Middle Ages due to religious views. However, swimming reemerged during the Renaissance as an important part of physical culture. The document also outlines the objectives and contents of the swimming lesson, including a group activity to discuss whether swimming is an important life activity.
4. Objectives
At the end of the lesson. Learners will able to;
● Determine the brief history and evolution of
Swimming, the terminologies, proper attire,
equipment, and facilities.
● Discuss the DO’s and DON’Ts in Swimming
classes;
● Participate actively in class discussions.
5. TABLE OF CONTENTS
01
Prehistoric/ ancient
times
Physical activity checklist
Quiz 1
04
Group Activity
History of swimming
02 05
Generalization
03 06
9. ● In the paintings on the cellar
wall, they demonstrated their
swimming technique. It is
possible they have overcome
water barriers like the current
arm-stroke and are clung to
logs and animal blowers and
have propulsive brake
motions like today's freestyle.
History of
swimming
10. This arm-stroke clearly illustrates the moving phase of the
freestyle arm-stroke: one arm is shown above the water
during the recovery phase, while the other arm is pulling
under water.
Ancient Egyptian clay tablet from 4000 – 9000 B.C.
11. The acquisition of the Swimming science in 594
B.C. was made compulsory by Solon at Athens
and the Sparta legislator, Lykourgos, in the 9th
century prescribed it in a strict law on
education.
Ancient Greeks 594 B.C.
12. "They cannot hold a public role if
they have no education and can't
swim or read or write." Plato said.
Ancient Greeks
13. Middle Ages to 1800
● Water has lost prominence
since the collapse of the
Roman Empire (476 A.D.). It
has been regarded as unclean
and immoral for any touch.
"They are highly dangerous
for wellbeing to bathe and
swim in open water every
day."
14. Middle Ages to 1800
● To the ban of swimming
faced up the humanist
thinkers, who believed that
drownings could not be
prevented by prohibiting
regulations but by
swimming lessons.
● swimming manual
published in 1538
15. THE
RENAISSANCE
OF SWIMMING
● The boom of the Renaissance
body culture has overcome all
the medieval prejudices against
swimming. People in the
Renaissance discovered the
beauty of the human body and
that of physical activity,
returned to the ancient values
of body culture.
18th century swimming pools
started to be built. The first
facilities were wooden framed
swimming pools on rivers. On the
bottom, down to the bottom of the
river, nets closed them from the
river or the lake. They were fixed
by chains and ropes, and they
were moored due to the stream of
the river.
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They showed their swimming technique in the paintings on the cave wall. It is likely that they overcame water obstacles
. We may discover a kind of swimming in some cave paintings from the stone age, but the style cannot be identified easily. Some writers argue that it's breast-paddling, some say dogpaddling
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Solon, the Athenian politician and lawmaker:
Lycurgus was the lawgiver of Sparta who established the military-oriented
Swimming was a test of culture for the ancient Greeks.
The acquisition of the Swimming science in 594 B.C. was made compulsory by Solon at Athens and the Sparta legislator, Lykourgos, in the 9th century prescribed it in a strict law on education
Water may have been the source of diseases and illnesses, and it was better to stay away from it. Water is not a divine but a vicious legacy, spread the Christian missioners.
Due to the prejudices against swimming and bathing and to the closing of the bath houses, the education of water skills fell short, and as a result the number of drownings increased with a huge proportion. In order to stop it, public bathing and swimming were banned all over Europe: in 1643
As people could not resist the temptation of water, only a few respected the regulation, so the open waters went on taking casualties.
Defying the Church and its prohibition, the first swimming manual written by Nicolaus Wynmann, a university professor in Ingolstadt, published in 1538, also encouraged the practice of swimming and emphasised the importance hereof. In his work entitled “The art of swimming”, the author presents not only the swimming styles and how to teach them but also describes how to jump in the water, how to dive and how to save someone from drowning. He propagates the primacy of teaching breaststroke. T
Swimming and bathing in open waters have become popular again.
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