Georgian swimming comprises several styles unique to Georgia: “Lazuri” (Free Colchian), “Hands and feet bound Kolkhuri” (Military Colchian), “Apkhazuri” (Abkhazian), “Okribula”, “Iberiuli” (Iberian), “Takhvia” and partly “Khashuruli” and “Kizikuri”. More traditional movements of the extremities are restricted or barred and forward motion is accomplished by dolphin-like undulation of hips and paired feet. These styles emulate the motions of mammals such as the seal, dolphin, sea lion, whale, otter, and beaver, which have evolved adaptations to water that enable them to attain an optimal swimming ability. The Georgian style of swimming (Colchian and Iberian style) was revived by the swimmer Henry Kuprashvili. He laid foundation of Georgian styles of swimming study process and established the school of swimming. History In the beginning of the 1960s, Levan Kursua (1887-1969), a resident of the seaside village of Ergeta (Anaklia) in Mingrelia (Colchis), retold a Georgian legend about Colchian (Lazica) and Iberian warriors who, as part of their training, used a style of swimming where their hands and feet were bound firmly. His narrative proposed that while, initially daunting, this style of swimming could also be used as a regimen to develop discipline and physical stamina in martial culture: psychological preparation of the warrior - a person with hands and feet bound firmly to the body, forcefully exposed to water is made to confront fear of drowning or water in a way intended to develop resources that enable them to overcome psychological barriers encountered in various other extreme conditions. chances for escape by water for a warrior taken captive (as from a ship or a bridge) were better even if they were bound The revival of these unique Georgian style of swimming started at the “Lagune Vere” sports complex in Tbilisi. One of the Georgian style of swimming, military-training style “Hands and feet bound Kolkhuri” (Military Colchian), was revived when on January 28, 2001, many journalists and other spectators witnessed an unusual feat that served to acquaint Georgian swimming to the world. A man, with straightened legs together and arms at the side, bound at the chest, hips, thighs and ankles, jumped into the water. Henry Kuprashvili was the first man to uninterruptedly swim 2 kilometers in the Kolkhuri style. Georgian records were set for TV reporting purchases by Reuters and the Associated Press. American TV channel CNN called the swimmer the “human dolphin” and broadcast his interview several times. In 2002, for the