To educate, entertain, and enthuse all those who venture beyond the shoreline
World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
FINIS Finds, Fixes Freestyle Flaws Fast Courtesy of WOWSA, Livermore, California. The new Agility Paddles from FINIS are quite simply cool and a great addition to my training gear. The strapless paddles are a fantastic self-teaching aid that immediately enables you to become kinetically aware of your strengths and weaknesses in your swimming stroke. Because […]
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4-year-old Quinn, a 155-pound Leonberger, roams the halls and rooms of the Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center in Dallas, Texas bringing joy and hope to people facing devastating diagnoses. On the weekend, he also swims and occasionally swims alongside Olympians helping raise thousands of dollars for cancer research. When the energetic therapy dog isn’t
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Open water swimmers and triathletes often push the envelope. Adventurist types want to see what they are made of and see how close they can reach their true potential. When such adventurers and endurance junkies go beyond what is reasonable, they relish in the risk-taking behavior. When the open bodies of water are rough or
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Conditions do not always cooperate when open water swims are held. This places a huge amount of pressure on the race directors, safety personnel and volunteers. When rains, winds, waves, marine life, thunder and lightning invade the venue and corrupt the competition, open water swimming becomes roughwater swimming and swimmers face Mother Nature. But race
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When open water swimmers challenge themselves to swim from one island to another, or to swim across a channel or to traverse from point A to point B, they are exposing themselves to nature in ways that runners, cyclists, mountaineers or adventure racers can barely imagine. And sometimes, it hurts. Hurts badly. The swimmer wears
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A mother-child relationship never quite changes. When a mother carries her child for 9 months, bears the toll of childbirth (especially in the pre-epidural anesthesia era), and spends countless days caring for that child through infancy, childhood and adolescence, the feelings of love, nurturing, protection and guidance are profound and constant while disappointment, worry and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Australia’s Men’s Health Magazine gave a great title to this photo about Olympic 10 km Marathon Swim medal contender and 2-time Olympian Ky Hurst: Ky’s The Limit. It is. Because great things are in store for the outstanding waterman from Australia. Hurst will undoubtedly be an even more formidable
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the same way that athletes swim 2.4 miles in the Waikiki Roughwater Swim or 1 mile in the Great Swims, athletes are correctly credited with the shortest straight-line tangent when they do any kind of open water swim, even if they swim crookedly or are pushed by tides,
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Marcos Díaz returned to New York City, for another international humanitarian effort on behalf of the United Nations. Díaz participated in discussions, meetings, proposals and decision-making by the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development last week. Together with Bonian Golmohammadi, the Secretary-General of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, Natasha Despotovic, Executive Director of
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International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honour Swimmer Peter Jurzynski has set the bar for Americans who wish to repeatedly swim the English Channel. Over the course of 31 trips from his native Massachusetts across the pond to England, Jurzynski has made 20 attempts and 14 successful crossings, more than any other American. As he
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