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How did swim start?

Man does not swim naturally, as certain animals do. He has had to learn how to swim.

Originally, man must have learned to swim by watching animals that swim by instinct. Early man probably had to learn how to swim in order to survive under certain conditions.

The first effort man made to swim imitated a dog. Such a stroke has always been known as the ‘dog paddle’. But then man wanted to find a way of swimming that gave him more buoyancy and an opportunity to coordinate the motions of the arms and legs.

So more than two thousand years ago he developed the method of swimming known as the breast stroke. This stroke is still used by many people for restful distance swimming in rough open water.

Swimming was rated highly in the days of ancient Greece and Rome and was used as part of the training of warriors.