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Thanks for adding this very interesting article to Wikipedia, it seems to have been written by someone with a lot of knowledge about this topic. However, parts of it are not suitable for an encyclopedia; they expressed various personal interpretations and opinions and therefore are not compatible with Wikipedia's neutral point of view principle. I have taken the following out:

  • Kolkhian-Iberian style of swimming is approaching the “creation” of nature with its meaning, method and form… And that’s why acquaintance with the World of original styles of Georgian swimming and their popularization is very important.
  • Georgian swimming is specific and develops the system of muscles that play very active role in perfection of classic sport styles of swimming. The sportsmen trained by using Georgian styles of swimming certainly should gain very big success in classic styles of swimming. Sport swimming in Georgia looks very painfully nowadays.

and the "Future prospect:" section:

  • With the object of next revival and popularization of Georgian swimming, it’s necessary to found the Sport Club of Georgian Swimming. It’s necessary to study the structure of Georgian swimming according to common regularities of sport, biomechanics’ and hydrodynamics’ theory. Corresponding research experiments have to be done (the process of swimming, hydrodynamic resistances, braking forces of body slipping impediment and etc.) It’s necessary to prepare the methodic of Georgian swimming according to international standards and publish notebooks on different languages. Wide work for popularization and it’s practical inculcation.
  • The swimming competition among World’s lifeguards in “Hands and feet bound Kolkhuri” should gain very big interest. Who, if not a lifeguard should know this Georgian style of swimming? We hope that the World should accept this Georgian “product” with no problem, if we deliver it “beautifully”. The duty of a lifeguard is to save life of a drowning man. At this time, drowning man is able to cause a death danger to his saver. That’s why it’s necessary for the lifeguard to know not only the technique of classic swimming, but has to swim in the water without using his hands and feet. In extreme situation one needs his hands to save the life of drowning man. Georgian style of swimming, military-training style “Hands and feet bound Kolkhuri” is the best to raise one’s mastery of swimming.
    • It should be very good, if an international competition among people whose age is up to 70 years in “Rachuli” swimming will be traditional.
  • Old people often feel their selves “aloof” from the society. They are treated, as outgoing people and society don’t expect anything new from them. Old people suffer the perspective that they have “no function” and are aloof from the active society. In our opinion, one of the ways to take them away from this condition, when they feel their selves without function is the swimming “Rachuli”. Swimmers compete with each other in swimming, but not in speed and by physical heavy duty, as in other sport competitions, but compete in gravity and slow swimming, as it suits old people. ’’’The winner is the swimmer who finishes last by’’’ unceasing movement of his feet and hands.The Main in this case is that a parson can win not by physical heavy duty, that can be fatal for people whose age is up to 70 years, but by right strategy, tactics and adroitness.
  • There are a lot of old people on Earth, including in retirement homes. Old people should get some “function” and some pleasure while swimming “Rachuli”. In our opinion, the ’’’World should accept this Georgian product too with no problem’’’.

While these are certainly opinions that one could agree with, they are still opinions and should better be expressed elsewhere, perhaps in form of a personal essay, not in an encyclopedia which has a strict policy of neutrality.

Regards, High on a tree 11:58, 3 December 2007 (UTC)