“Close your fingers!” has been shouted by more than one swimming coach to young swimmers learning how to swim freestyle. But is that the best way to swim? Daniel Marinho, Tiago Barbosa, Victor Reis, João Vilas-Boas, Francisco Alves, Per Kjendlie, Abel Rouboa and António Silva presented their study, The Effect of Finger Spread on the […]

Michelle Macy explains in elaborate detail about her unprecedented swim across Clarence Strait in Alaska, from Revilligegado Island to Prince of Wales Island, near the famed Pennock Island Challenge in Ketchikan. Michelle’s 6 hour 36 minute swim for 15 miles in sub-10°C (50°C) water was difficult enough, but ride on the boat back was a

Erik Van Loon of the Rotterdam Swimming Ambassadors is gearing up for the July 18th Rondje Noordereiland in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Held in the biggest artifical harbor of the world, hosted the Rondje Noordereiland offers 1.5K and 3K swims as well as a 2 x 1.5K relay. Erik and his fellow Rotterdam Swimming Ambassadors who

The Who’s Who of the elite competitive world will be in Quebec, Canada for the 2010 World Open Water Swimming Championships in the famed lac St-Jean. The course is a bit tricky, especially when tactically navigating in a large pack of great swimmers, but the water will be relatively warm and flat with 3,000 fans

Jose Diaz wrote an interesting article in Spanish about Elena Martinez. His questions and her answers include: Nadandolibre: Your specialty is the 25K in the open water. For this type of competition, what factors are important? Elena: Without any doubt, for me the most important factor to swim 25K is what we call the coconut.

In addition to the free accommodations offer in Fiji for the Fiji Swims, David Handley, Founding Director of the Sculpture by the Sea, reminded us that the 18K swim in Fiji can be done in multiple ways: as a solo swimmer, as a duo swimmer, as a team of 5, as someone without a team

David Handley, Founding Director of the Fiji Swims and Sculpture by the Sea, announced a contest to win four free nights in Fiji to compete in the Fiji Swims. As one of the top open water swims in the world, Fiji Swims is offering one lucky swimmer from the USA the chance to win four

Nino Fazio reported from the Straits Of Messina in Sicily, Italy, “Yesterday, Finy Fichera from Taormina, a Sicilian master swimmer, completed a double-crossing of the Straits. The 82 year old swimmer is the oldest athlete to swim across the Straits. Two years ago, Finy completed a single crossing from Sicily to mainland Italy, but his

“The Kas Belediyesi, the 6th International Swimming and Marine Canoeing Competition from Meis, Greece to Kaş, Turkey, was awesome,” reported Ozden Ozturan of Istanbul. “The race is the Mediterrenian, so the sea was warm, crystal clear with little currents or tides. 144 swimmers from Turkey, USA, South Africa, England, Estonia, Australia and Northern Cyprus did