How to Caper in Water

1595

“To caper with both his legges at once aboue the water. Lying vpon his backe straight as afore, his hands with their palmes downwards, pressing the water the better to keepe him vp, he must cast both his legges out of the water at once, and caper with them vpward as men vse to doe downward in dauncing, as thus.”

Everard Digby, A Short Introduction for to Learne to Swimme

When you’re trying to impress fellow swimmers at the pool, sometimes the backstroke just isn’t enough. This aquatic daunce will entrance onlookers with the sight of your legs capering gloriously past in the slow lane.