Talk:Swimming

historical event suggestion, civil disobedience protest Australia beach

First off, I'm only here because upon looking up the word decollete, I ended up with A LOT of history and historical periods I was not very familiar, and fashions, like displaying bare breasts in dresses, being fashionable for a long period preceding the Victorian era. Following a "bathing machine" link among others, brought me here.

Suggestion: IF not part of the historical articles regarding beach clothing or nude sunbathing/swimming, I recall something I read many years ago that might be of interest to include among such articles and history.

I believe during a period of very prudish social pressures regarding beaches there was some sort of massive social protest on a beach in Australia. I think it might have been not against nude sunbathing but that they were banning swimming or enjoying beaches even clothed, or banning any beach activities on Sundays ... or something along these lines. I'm recalling some sort of massive protest[civil disobedience], I think on a Sunday, a protest against both churches and the laws banning beach activities. It's been decades since I read about this historical event, but believe that a large group of the public, men AND women, protested by going to the beach, and breaking not some sort of silly prudish law restricting even swimming by anyone or probably I suppose at the least, the ban on mixing the sexes. What I'm recalling is a massive group of men and women shedding all clothing and going for a swim, to protest the highly restrictive beach laws. It's been a LONG time since I read that, and the memory is fuzzy but I think what was so unusual about it was it was a LONG time ago, like 19century or early decades of the 20th perhaps and the protest was against something much more draconian than banning nudity but banning even clothed or mixed sexes on the beach, but somehow the protest ended up a nude swimming event with a great number of the public showing up and participating, thumbing their noses at the domination of the churches and repression of the government. My recollection is poor and perhaps I've been highly inaccurate about this protest, but if it could be found of what I've typed about here, it might be an interesting addition to this section of wikipedia regarding clothing and swimming and "morality" of the day.

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Small children have negative buoyancy?

"An adult with fully developed and extended lungs has generally positive or at least neutral buoyancy, and can float with modest effort when calm and in still water. A small child has negative buoyancy and must make a sustained effort to avoid sinking rapidly."

There is no citation for this and I cannot find a source online. Search results tell me that babies have above average buoyancy, but I cannot find a source for the claim that small children have negative buoyancy. Behiindthesea (talk) 21:38, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

Emphasized squatting before swimming?

In science chapter, it's a bit weird to have the last sentence giving emphasis on swimmers doing Squats just before swimming. The article makes it sound like it's common practise. I am very familiar with squad competitive swimming and I can definitely say that doesn't seem like a thing. I took a look at the source and I actually own a copy of that cited book and have read the chapter on Squats - . The book just says it's good for improving your start and should be a mainstay exercise for swimmers. Other than saying it's a good all around exercise for lower extremity, there is nothing in the book that claims it's commonly used by swimmers broadly right before they swim. There is no doubt some may do it bu it's not a widespread practice among swimmers, so it's undue and somewhat misleading as if to insinuate it's a significant common practice. If anything, swimmers typically tend to shake out their arms in a wave like manner all over and do shoulder windmill mobility rotations and maybe do moderate toe jumps. That's way more common for swimmers before races and training sessions. JaredMcKenzie (talk) 13:35, 15 August 2026 (UTC)

So I removed the clarification tag and the dubious info. I instead added they may do arm swings for pre-swim and cited a vid. Thought it be better to just add swimmers do dryland training (outside pool sessions) that includes squats - as many serious swimmers indeed do this. So I added that instead and also systematic review showing results of such dryland training. JaredMcKenzie (talk) 07:57, 17 August 2026 (UTC)