Swim Coordinator for the Novice, 1936

When learning to swim, so many people emulate a wet hen that they get nowhere at all. But with the new Swim Co-ordinator from 1936, the novice was assured of learning the right way to swim from the very start.

Water-shy people can now learn to swim on dry land and later take to the water, for the new Swim Co-ordinator trains leg and arm movements exactly as in actual swimming.

You lay yourself on the apparatus, as Bernice Claire was doing in the illustration, and by turning the hand cranks your arms and legs move up and down in exact duplication of the American crawl. Thus, after one or two lessons in “dry land” swimming, even those who have never swam before could handle themselves capably in the water. The device was installed at the Hotel Sheldon Pool, Gotham.