Basically, humans are familiar with the water inside the womb. In other words, while in the womb, the human being has been able to float on water. So basically all humans can swim. Only, because many children are not introduced to the world of water, so they are afraid of playing with water.

As a basis for this statement, you can see that the history books point out that human beings were actually able to swim since prehistoric times. There is much evidence to support this fact. The earliest evidence we can find through paintings of Stone Age swimmers has been discovered in ‘cave swimmers’ in the Wadi Sora area of ​​Gilf Kebir in southwestern Egypt. In addition, we can also point to the oldest of the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Odyssey, the Iliad, Beowulf and the Bible. You can read this topic in the book of Ezekiel 47:5, Acts 27:42, the Book of Isaiah 25:11. Nikolaus Wynmann is the first person to write a book on swimming in 1538. The title of this book is “Der Schwimmer oder ein über die Zwiegespräch Schwimmkunst” or in English “Dialogue on Art Swimmers”.

The swimming race was first held in Europe in 1800 after the construction of swimming pools. Most of the participants had time to swim with the breaststroke. In 1873, John Arthur Trudgen introduced the front crawl or a style called a trudgen to the racing pool. Trudgen mimics freestyle techniques in South American Indian tribes. Swimming is a sport at the 1896 Athens Olympics. In 1900, the backstroke was included as a new number in the Olympic pool. The International Swimming Federation (FINA) was formed in 1908. The butterfly stroke, originally a variation of the breaststroke, was accepted as a separate stroke in 1952.