Swimming (the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes) (1893)
Sinclair, Archibald, Henry, William, Duke of Beaufort (Ed.) · Longmans, Green and Co. (London) · leaf 267
239 SIVIMMING knee and place it as high as possible against the abdomen of the front-rank man. The front-rank man will carry back the right foot one pace (fig. 11). Three—On the word ‘three, the rear-rank man will bend slightly over towards the front-rank man, and at the same time by a sudden push… … Front. Change—Rank—Two Decp.—These commands are the same as Nos. 30 and 33, and the drill is repeated. The object of teaching the foregoing drills on land is to inculcate into the minds of the pupils the correct methods of approaching and gripping a drowning person, as it is far easier to do this…
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