According to The Billboard Magazine issue of April 25th 1942, Navy swim coach and professor Henry Ortland Jr. addressed the leading swim coaches of the era at the 1942 College Swimming Coaches Association meeting at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts that "the Japanese endurance swimmers were responsible for the reconstruction of the Singapore
Samurai As Scholars, Swimmers, And Swordsmen Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Japanese samurai has to master many things including swordsmanship, Chinese studies, poetry, spiritual discipline...and open water swimming. Samurai learned suijutsu or suiei-jutsu (æ°´è¡“ in Japanese), one form of a martial art of combative swimming. The samurai
While we often hear that open water swimming is a new and emerging sport, we are also constantly reminded of the long, colorful history of swimming in oceans, lakes, bays, channels, and rivers where historical records in various countries prove that open water swimming has been a sport for at least 2,000 years. Given this context from a historical
It is wartime and the United States Marines train to be ready for anything from battling onshore to dealing with combat situations in all kinds of unplanned conditions. And it is rare they would encounter these conditions without their boots on. And so when they train and do they practice their qualification swims in the open water, they swim with their
Suijutsu - How The Ancient Japanese Samurai Swam Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. "Just get in and swim..." is an instruction that simply would not work in ancient Japan. No, the Japanese samurai learned suijutsu or suiei-jutsu (æ°´è¡“ in Japanese) as one form of a martial art of combative swimming. Centuries ago, the Japanese samurai
