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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bruce Becker, M.D., M.S. received the 2011 John K Williams, Jr. Adaptive Aquatics Award from the International Swimming Hall of Fame. Dr. Becker has long been in the forefront of researching and implementing the effects of aquatic immersion and aquatic exercise on those injured or rehabilitating. The International Swimming […]
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Something is up with the courageous Dan Martin. Given his audacious plans for a Global Triathlon, where he will literally attempt to swim, bike and run around the Planet Earth, he is in heavy training. Today, he is reportedly doing an 8-hour swim in San Francisco Bay today in 53°F (11°C) water. Dan will start
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Simon Griffiths is the Publisher, Founder and Editor of H2Open Magazine, the world’s first and only magazine devoted to open water swimming. The former triathlon writer wants others to appreciate open water swimming in its many guises as he does: as a lifestyle, as a healthful exercise that challenges the mind and body, as an
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Daily Mail And Billy Butlin’s English Channel International Races Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With the U.K. abuzz with open water swimming in the lead-up to the 2012 London Olympics, the open water swimming phenonemon calls to mind the professional English Channel races that were held in the 1950’s. The first race was held
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How big was open water swimming in the 1940s and 1950s in America and Great Britain? Huge. Not only were the Billy Butlin’s English Channel International Races the rage during the 1950s, but also world-class swimmer Esther Williams starred in a series of films in the 1940s and early 1950s known as aquamusicals which featured
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Bruckner Chase, Swimming & Ocean Sports Editor of the Liberty Sports Magazine, provides this winter swimming commentary and advice: As a Master swim team, the Dolphin Club has some of the best-attended swim workouts and club events in the country. Members from age 20-80 log impressive yardage throughout the year, and not a single yard
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Lelané Rossouw-Bancroft is following in the footsteps of other great extreme swimmers such as Lynne Cox, Rachel Golub, Patricia Sener, Cristian Vergara, Ram Barkai, Andrew Chin and Lewis Pugh, by attempting a certified Ice Swim (a one mile swim in water of 5°C (41°F) or less without a wetsuit or neoprene cap. Dedicating her swim
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DURBAN, South Africa. Environmental campaigner Lewis Pugh gave a speech in Durban, South Africa this evening, the day before the opening of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Leaders from different faiths and world leaders heard Lewis speak about the fight against climate change, ending with the following plea: The right to have our environment
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Claire Bennison, an English Channel swimmer, completed the charity Super Six, that involves swimming Loch Lomond (in Scotland), walking Ben Nevis (Scotland), walking Scarfell Pike (England), swimming Windermere (England), walking Snowdon and swimming Bala Lake (Wales). Claire walked over 10,000 feet up the three biggest mountains and swam over 38 miles in the three biggest
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I went last month, to Dover to swim, but the weather wouldn’t allow it, the wind blew hard, vigor and vim, and the Channel raged over & about it. So I plodded in the harbor, up and down, calling Mike Oram every day, to talk about the weather, and smile or frown, depending on what
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