Sidestroke

Page designated swimming swimming styles, in which the body is in the water side. The legs run the scissor-kick.

According to Cassius Dio Caesar was a good swimmer, swimming side of the dominated ( Cassius Dio 42.10; Plutarch Caesar 37). GutsMuths describes 1798 in his book " Small textbook of art of swimming for self- lessons " also a form of side swimming. The Englishman JH Thayer swam 1895 Page Swimming 91.44 meters (100 yards) in 1:02:50 minutes.