Comments on: Tarzan Skills: How to Swim, Dive, Climb, and Swing Like the Lord of the Apes http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/08/05/tarzan-skills-how-to-swim-dive-climb-and-swing-like-the-lord-of-the-apes/ Men's Interests and Lifestyle Sat, 18 May 2013 13:23:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Matthew Burnham http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/08/05/tarzan-skills-how-to-swim-dive-climb-and-swing-like-the-lord-of-the-apes/comment-page-1/#comment-281475 Matthew Burnham Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:22:03 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=11621#comment-281475 The front crawl method described is similar to the red cross method of teaching the crawl. There is another method I prefer that teaches “front quadrant swimming” a method I believe is more efficient and faster. The diagram for the crawl shows one hand back while the other is forward. In front quadrant swimming one hand is always in the front quadrant.

]]> By: El Callens http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/08/05/tarzan-skills-how-to-swim-dive-climb-and-swing-like-the-lord-of-the-apes/comment-page-1/#comment-113744 El Callens Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:58:47 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=11621#comment-113744 I believed that the yell was taken eventually to a growling dog. Dog’s yell are very appropriate with Tarzans’ yell. By the way very informative post. Now I know where that yell came from.

]]> By: ScottR http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/08/05/tarzan-skills-how-to-swim-dive-climb-and-swing-like-the-lord-of-the-apes/comment-page-1/#comment-113248 ScottR Sun, 08 Aug 2010 12:36:02 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=11621#comment-113248 Here is a video of the MR. Le Corre that John was speaking of.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKGF-ErsJiI

]]> By: J_Pier http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/08/05/tarzan-skills-how-to-swim-dive-climb-and-swing-like-the-lord-of-the-apes/comment-page-1/#comment-113232 J_Pier Sat, 07 Aug 2010 21:27:15 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=11621#comment-113232 We idolize real persons or characters mimicking the real person who sacrifice their lives for the interest of others. Individuals who insist on saving alligators even if they’ve been bitten by them.
This phenomenon is primarily due to the fact that we’re tired of seeing people, as individuals or groups, so rotten, lazy, selfish assholes who don’t stop at sacrificing their children, family, town and country just to feed their ugly inner self. they have no guts, will or courage to acknowledge even a small mistakes that they have made, a major indicator of an ignorant individual with limited understanding, comprehension and spiritual capacity.

]]> By: Chavez http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/08/05/tarzan-skills-how-to-swim-dive-climb-and-swing-like-the-lord-of-the-apes/comment-page-1/#comment-113231 Chavez Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:42:47 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=11621#comment-113231 That song that was in the video with the tree climbing guys is by Iron & Wine, it is his cover of “Such Great Heights”

]]> By: P.M.Lawrence http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/08/05/tarzan-skills-how-to-swim-dive-climb-and-swing-like-the-lord-of-the-apes/comment-page-1/#comment-113223 P.M.Lawrence Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:55:44 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=11621#comment-113223 “In Tarzan movies, a frequent scene is that of the Ape Man diving into a river and swimming briskly to fight an alligator that’s circling Jane… In a matter of seconds, Tarzan could scale a jungle tree to fight a jaguar or escape a herd of raging rhinos”.

An alligator? A jaguar? In Africa? Maybe in some of the other places he visited.

]]> By: Katydid http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/08/05/tarzan-skills-how-to-swim-dive-climb-and-swing-like-the-lord-of-the-apes/comment-page-1/#comment-113221 Katydid Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:12:18 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=11621#comment-113221 Sorry to get off topic….but does anyone know the name/singer of the song on the video with the tree climbing guys? It sounds familiar, but I can’t put my finger on it.

]]> By: Peter O'Reilly http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/08/05/tarzan-skills-how-to-swim-dive-climb-and-swing-like-the-lord-of-the-apes/comment-page-1/#comment-113201 Peter O'Reilly Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:09:16 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=11621#comment-113201 This article reminds me of a radio personality we have in Toronto.

Does anybody remember jamming in the jungle with Tarzan Dan? He always got his listeners who phoned in to do their best Tarzan yell?

It was pretty good back in the day.

]]> By: Chris http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/08/05/tarzan-skills-how-to-swim-dive-climb-and-swing-like-the-lord-of-the-apes/comment-page-1/#comment-113184 Chris Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:45:47 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=11621#comment-113184 Ah, but there are vines you can swing from even though they grow from the ground up: wild grape vines. Cut one loose near ground level and grab on. The thicker ones can hold the weight of even a large person since the vine branches out to attach itself to the trees branches in several locations. Maybe this is the vine the movie makers had in mind.

]]> By: Thomas P Connolly Jr http://www.artofmanliness.com/2010/08/05/tarzan-skills-how-to-swim-dive-climb-and-swing-like-the-lord-of-the-apes/comment-page-1/#comment-113155 Thomas P Connolly Jr Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:15:21 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=11621#comment-113155 As for the dive, just let me caution you first-timers. While at the Jones Beach Pool high dive board, I made a perfect swan dive…and nearly left my speedo on the top of the water! Okay, it was the 70′s and I was young. If not for incredibly quick thinking, I’d have come up wearing that speedo on my head. To save what little dignity I had, I splayed out my feet, catching the speedo at my ankles. Well, I thought that was a good idea. However, as I tried to bring up my suit, I soon realized that it had “rolled” down. This made bringing it back on quite difficult. Trying to swim AND put on a wet, rolled speedo was difficult, a problem the lifeguard took note of! He stood up, put that whistle in his mouth, and I desperately waved him off. I barely made it to the side, The moral of this tale, tie that damn suit tight! And maybe choose something other than a speedo.

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