游泳と水上安全に関する研究

静岡県を事例として

抄録

This study examined the influences of living environment and modernization on aquatic sports, with the relation of water accidents that were experienced.
The results were as follows:
1. Teaching swimming in the pool is most efficient for the beginner's level, since it is devoid of wave or current and can be easily controlled in terms of safety conditions, but it was considered that additional instructions in a natural environment (ex. sea, river) is important. That should ensure safety and more enjoyable swimming as well as preventing water accidents.
2. Judging from the accidents related aquatic sports in children and adolescents, it was thought that primary and junior high school education ought to include both theoretical and practical instruction in survival swimming and life saving, adjusted to the children's age and their developmental stage.
3. It was assumed that the process of growing old would be not accompanied with swimming and other aquatic sports related skills. In the decreased knowledge of the Japanese classical strokes and a similar decrease in the mastery of the sidestroke, one of approach to clear the problem, We should reconsider the advantages of the Japanese classical strokes, and should effort, to familiar their acquisition as life-long sport.