許其正：游泳去

「游泳去！」

「好！」

烈日當空，夏日正盛。「好熱！」這話到處可以聽到。是熱呀！好多人前往游泳。游 泳正是這季節裡最熱門的事。

其實，游泳不只是浸涼而已，它更有積極的意義。它是一種很好的運動，是廣及全身 的。想想，當一個人進入水裡游泳，有哪一部分不浸到水？有哪一部分不在運動？不 管是蛙式、蝶式、仰式、自由式，甚至狗爬式，甚至只浸在水裡不動，都能獲得運動 的效益，都能嘗到游泳的美味。

水有水性，人有其重量，不懂水性，下水必沉；但是如何使其不但下水不沉，反而浮 而能遊？這豈止是口說為憑的事？沒有下過水的游泳教練，說得頭頭是道，下水仍然 必沉必溺。所以必需下水，實際去游，去經驗。學什麼東西，實際去做，去經驗，是 最重要的工夫。一回生，二回熟，漸漸地便學會了。至於錯誤，那是免不了的，沒什 麼好怕。學習本來就是嘗試錯誤的歷程；如果能由錯誤中得到經驗，達到成功，那又 何樂不為？

游泳去！夏熱時候，大家是最喜歡去游泳的了。但游泳不只是浸在水裡消暑而已，它 更有積極的意義。我們去游泳，是要追求這意義。

Let’s go Swimming     Hsu ChiCheng

“Let’s go swimming!”

“Okay!”

Here is the raging sun, the summer is vigorous. “Great hot!” We can hear this word everywhere. It’s certain hot! There are many persons go to swimming. Swimming is just the most popular thing in this season.

In fact, swimming isn’t just to soak and cool self, it has the positive meaning. It’s a good exercise, is extensive to whole body. May you think, when a person enter the water to swim, is there which part of the body not soak to the water? Is there which part of the body is not in exercise? No matter breaststroke, butterfly stroke, backstroke, freestyle swimming, even dog paddle, even only soak within the water without move, will obtain benefit of the exercise, will taste the flavour of the swimming.

There is the characteristics of the current, and there is the weight of the person, if one ignores of the characteristics, he will be sunk; how to free from sinking into the water only, on the contrary to float on the water to swim? Is it only relies on the matter of verbal expressions? The swim coach instructor explains clear and convincing, he’ll surely sink and dead still while he enters the water. So one must enters the water to swim, to experience. To do reality and experience is the most important work while you learn something. Difficult at first but easy later on, then you’ll do it well slowly. As to mistake, it can’t escape, no any fear of. Learning originally is the course of trying the mistake; what’s the sense of not doing it while we can obtain experience from mistake?

Let’s go swimming! In the hot time of summer, we all like most to go to swim. However, swim is not only to soak within the water to fade away the hot summer, it has more positive meaning. We pursue this meaning while we go to swim.@

責任編輯：林芳宇