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The Strenuous Life Podcast with Stephan Kesting

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The Importance of Armored Swimming

I was really quite fascinated about some of the armored swimming. They do things so that they're able to maintain an even keel in the water. So they're trying to use their legs in sort of corkscrewing manners. And they can do things like right calligraphy while they're floating in the water for example. Just do that. You're crossing a river towards the enemy castle and you decide to, your poem comes to your mind and you. It's very different from Western style swimming. Some of the more combative arts actually they will engage in certain limited expressions of swordsmanship in the water or they will actually try to figure out how to have a flintlock

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