Japanese swimming style

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As Japanese swimming styles (?) ( Jap. 日本泳法 , Nihon-Eiho ) refers to various traditional Japanese floating forms. The Japanese swimming forms were originally practiced by the samurai and were partly also an element of the various Japanese martial arts .

The forms of swimming are shaped by the fact that swimming in Japan was not a sport in the past, but a necessary technique in order to be able to move in the water even with armor weighing 20 kg or, like the ninja , to go unnoticed underwater with the Gun in your mouth to be able to sneak up on the enemy.

The Japanese Swimming Association today summarizes twelve different forms of swimming under the term Japanese swimming styles (Japanese: 水 術, Suijutsu ). These forms or techniques of swimming differ considerably from one another. In the Kobori-ryuto-suijutsu technique , for example, the body is inclined, almost vertical, in the water and moves mainly by kicking the legs . This form of swimming enables the samurai to carry a weapon in their hands. In another form, the body lies on the same side of the body in the water all the time, similar to side swimming . Another form of swimming is similar to paddling dogs.

Japanese athletes like to incorporate elements from Japanese swimming into synchronized swimming .

All forms have in common that they are inferior to the known western swimming techniques in terms of effectiveness (utilization of physical strength) and speed . In the meantime, internationally known swimming techniques such as crawl swimming and breaststroke swimming are taught in school swimming lessons . Although the term Japanese swimming styles has become almost unknown to the public, the styles are still taught in fitness centers or privately organized in public swimming pools. In 2013 there were about 2,000 practitioners nationwide.

Trivia

When Japanese swimmers first took part in a European competition in Antwerp in 1920, the two athletes used a swimming style half-standing in the water, which was still strongly based on traditional samurai swimming.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ uni-hamburg.de: Swimming like a samurai: A 100-year-old scroll from Japan , published in March 2012, loaded on September 11, 2018
  2. ↑ Die Zeit : Samurai swimming: With 20 kilos of armor in the pool , from September 14, 2013, loaded on September 11, 2018
  3. ↑ Die Zeit : Samurai swimming: With 20 kilos of armor in the pool , from September 14, 2013, loaded on September 11, 2018

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