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 Seven events, which have astonished the world

The achievement of Henry Kuprashvili has become the object of the world sensation. Seven unique events have contributed to the success:

• Henry Kuprashvili created absolutely new special psychological attitude. It is known that human being with hands and feet bound still to the body while in water is instinctively exposed to severe feeling of danger for dying. However, in the third millennium the “human-dolphin” managed to change this instinct and eliminate the fear syndrome;
• Henry Kuprashvili changed the humans’ perception of swimming – and partly even challenged the parable according to which a drowning man implores God for help and gets the answer to move his hands to be saved;
• On the Eve of new Millennium the world received a gift of completely new styles of Georgian swimming: “Ordinary Kolkhuri” (sport style) and “Hands and feet bound Kolkhuri" (military-training style);
• Henry Kuprashvili established “Hands and feet bound Kolkuri” i.e. military-training Kolhuri style for swimming over the world straits;
• Henry Kuprashvili showed the world, burdened with global problems that contemporary human should never give up no matter how tightly his/her hands and feet are bound. It seems like there is always a way out from the situation and the most important thing is to retain faith in God and moral strength;              
• Henry Kuprashvili revived ancient Georgian legend for the whole world and offered it as an incomparable Kolkhian cultural heritage the same way as Tim Severin revived the legend on Argonauts by sailing on the ancient Greek-type of ship from Greece to Georgia (historical Kolkheti); Heinrich Schlimann – “Iliada” by Homeros after the Troy diggings; George Byron – the legend of the love of Liandre and Heros by sailing the Dardanelles strait.  
• The myth about Amiran - Prometheus being confined to the Caucasus mountains – a symbol of handcuffed homeland until recent past - proves that the phenomenon of chains is not unknown for Georgian reality. This swimming can also be perceived as a warning for separated and contradictory Georgia that freedom and independence might become subjects for longing again.