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Walker’s Manly Exercises
- gonzo41 4y agoThe simple stuff has always been known. To run well you must wear a top hat. However, that climbing picture reminds me of my childhood school. I'm just old enough that all my school equipment used to be telephone poles constructed into very high, and very dangerous obstacles which routinely resulted in broken arms. Children really are missing out these days.
- geomark 4y agoThe jungle gym was the grim reaper of my schoolyard.
- finnh 4y agoMy local park had a hang-by-the-hands-only zip line about five feet above irregular brick ziggurats. No soft surfaces anywhere. It was so insane.
- noufalibrahim 4y agoOne of the interesting effects of such toys is that it helped kids form a clear picture of what they were capable of. I have a fairly accurate estimate of how high I can drop down from, how far I can jump etc.
- _dain_ 4y agoLet me introduce you to the SomethingAwful RIPline: a DIY amateur zipline which could accelerate children to 65mph. The vertical drop was 143 feet. Had anyone ridden this thing they would have been pasted. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1018965693897760768.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1018965693897760768.html
- blippage 4y agoA concussion is just a sign of weakness leaving your body.
- ycombinete 4y agoI’m surprised that climbing got an exemption from the apparent “wear a top hat at all costs” rule.
- bdcravens 4y agoI have misfortune of having a last name that while not frequently used in English, has an unfortunate meaning ("cowardly"). Seeing this in the title, does "By Craven" refer to someone with that name, or to someone considered cowardly by those doing the exercise? https://www.dictionary.com/browse/craven https://www.dictionary.com/browse/craven
- repsilat 4y agoIt was edited by someone called Craven, possibly a nom de plume. Still looking for more info. Some evidence in a Gutenberg copy: 'Edited by "Craven"' (name in quotes in the original) and that name below the editor's preface. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/69080/pg69080-images.html https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/69080/pg69080-images.ht... EDIT: https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:John_William_Carleton https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:John_William_Carleto... > John William Carleton > English writer, editor and army officer, published under the pseudonym "Craven"
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- djmips 4y agoIt does contain the word Raven which is pretty cool. C. Raven.
- doktrin 4y agoFor what it’s worth, I think yours is a dope name.
- googlryas 4y agoI think most people who hear the name, if they think anything, would just think of "wes craven"
- mathieuh 4y agoIn the UK it would be John Craven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Craven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Craven
- koolba 4y ago> It is important to be able to swim in a jacket and trousers. This explains why I never made it to the Olympics. I bet Phelps practices in a tuxedo.
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- mcv 4y agoSwimming lessons (here at least, but I'd hope it's universal) include swimming in clothes. Not quite jackets, though.
- baud147258 4y agowhere are you from? I've never heard of swimming lessons with clothes here in France, so I'm curious where it is common.
- michaelt 4y agoHere in the UK, 'water safety 2 award' [1] includes swimming in clothes. So if parents send a kid to swimming lessons for a few years, they'll end up doing it some time around age 10. (There are several different sequences of swimming awards, so it's no the second thing you learn despite the 2 in the name) [1] https://www.swimming.org/learntoswim/swim-england-water-safety-and-survival-awards/ https://www.swimming.org/learntoswim/swim-england-water-safe...
- mcv 4y ago10? How old do British kids start with swimming lessons? In Netherland, most children tend to start swimming lessons somewhere between the age of 4 and 6, and get their A and B swimming diplomas (both of which include swimming with clothes, as well the 4 basic strokes, diving, swimming underwater, etc) between the ages of 5 and 9 (depending on talent).
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- rubberwoodneck 4y agoI love the hats on the drawings. Really dates it.
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- djmips 4y agoA good portion of the book is devoted to horse riding.
- andersource 4y agoFor anyone excited by the outdoor gym illustration: The dangerous playgrounds of 1900s through vintage photographs https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/dangerous-playgrounds-1900s/ https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/dangerous-playgrounds-1900s... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31855163 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31855163
- amelius 4y agoReminds me of Action Park, which wasn't for softies (at least 6 people died). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Park Documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_Action_Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_Action_Park
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- lamchob 4y agoThe wikipedia article is pure gold! > The Bailey Ball was an Alpine Center attraction developed and tested, but never opened to the public, as a result of those tests. It consisted of a large foam sphere in which a rider could be secured, and then rolled downward. The plan was to do it on a track with PVC pipe as its outer rails, and one was built alongside a ski trail.[11]: 16:25 > The designers neglected to take into account the tendency of PVC pipe to expand in heat. During the first test, with a state inspector present on a hot summer day, the ball, with a man inside testing it, went off the track as a result of the pipe expanding and bounded down the adjacent ski slope. It continued through the parking lot, across Route 94, and came to rest in a swamp. After it came to a natural stop at the bottom, the inspector left without saying anything and park management abandoned the project.[11]: 16:25 [43]
- gadders 4y agoThat last picture of a climbing frame from 1942 wasn't much different from ones I played on as a kid in the 1970's: https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-1970s-historical-young-children-on-a-climbing-frame-outside-at-an-161983210.html https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-1970s-historical-young-chi... (Not that exact one, but a similar model in my part of Hampshire).
- langsoul-com 4y agoThe running part is amusing, basically taking small jumps, seems like it would kill your feet though.
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- shaftoe444 4y agoThe chapter on Indian clubs is very interesting. I didn't know they had been adopted by the British Army at one point.
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- jialutu 4y agoFor some reason, the illustrations really gave me the JoJo vibe. Does anyone else feel this book may have inspired Araki to create JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Phantom Blood?
- gadders 4y agoIf you want a US book on exercise from about the same era, you could do worse than read what Walt Whitman wrote. Examples: https://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/journalism/tei/per.00594.html https://whitmanarchive.org/published/periodical/journalism/t... Cool hardback book of excerpts: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Whitmans-Guide-Manly-Health-Training/dp/0399579486 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Whitmans-Guide-Manly-Health-Trainin... My favourite quote: “In robust training for this life, which is itself a continual fight with some form of adversary or other, the aim should be to form that solid and adamantine fiber which will endure long and serious attacks upon it, and come out unharmed from them, rather than the ability to perform sudden and brilliant feats, which often exhaust the powers in show, without doing any substantial good.”
- p0pcult 4y agoAnyone else (mis)read the title as "Walker's Manly Excuses"? As it stands, the actual book disappoints me.