ABOUT SWIMMING…

INTRODUCTION. ALMOST FORGOTTEN TERMS AND NOTIONS

PHYSICAL CULTURE AND SWIMMING

The culture represents the last objective of life and education, of the human emancipation on the way of the personal life and the whole society. What may come after “it”? Not even talking about anti-culture!

So, Culture must influence the sports activity. There is a Sports culture, a Physical education culture, of the “physic” next to the culture of the mental, of the intellect (our elite posses a certain high cultural level in most of the domains… one thing to do is to sensitize everything between us; the statistics show that “in a random group, 15-20% is represented by the elite which corresponds to the analyzed category).

We can say that: the totality of the material, spiritual, intellectual values which configures the Physical culture notion are linked to the swimming practice – a beloved sports even in antiquity:

- sport of the organism endurance and health;

- sport with the most natural movements;

- sport with audience to public opinion;

- sport which raises the standard of hygiene;

- sport advised for sedentary people;

- sport of harmonic growth and development;

- sport by which life is being protected;

- sport with facilities that contribute to the development of the urban development;

(Swimming has friends among stamp collectors)

By the systematical practice of swimming nobody has anything to lose, but to gain – the universal character of swimming practice can be observed easily form this:

By practicing swimming – the fat ones will lose weight and the weak ones will gain weight!

So, we can admit that swimming is a necessity accepted by the 21th century civilization!

And this fact is not linked to the passing of the time. Swimming promotion has a long history which will be shown in this book…

Now, keep this in mind:

The next image shows the calm of a cathedral where you can find the balance you lost in every day life… and not only.

(* photo from personal collection)

The state, society in general, shall not accept any form of socialization of an action (modern constructions, hospitals, schools, roads, etc.) without conditioning the construction of a new swimming pool.