The breaststroke felt 'rational.' The crawl, not so much.
AdvertisementCatlin had set up various swimming competitions to please the many spectators who gathered for this event. The two Ojibwa swimmers, who may not have been particularly good swimmers at home, first raced one another several times. Despite its contempt for the crawl stroke,reported admiringly that both men swam “with the rapidity of an arrow, and almost as straight a tension of limb.
as “ugly gestures” and “trick” swimming. A struggle developed between competitive swimmers, who wanted to use the new fast stroke to win races, and recreational swimmers, who resented the implication that their swimming owed anything to Indigenous people.As we have seen, the crawl was probably not entirely unknown in Europe even before the Ojibwa demonstration.
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