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Cameron Castro Tops First Global Swim Series Virtual Race #1 Courtesy of Global Swim Series. The Global Swim Series is hosting a number of Virtual Races. Virtual Race #1 was held on June 15th 2020 with the top swimmers posted below. Dylan Kent explains, “With open water swimming races cancelled around the world due to […]
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Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Ted Erikson took a trip down memory lane during today’s WOWSA Live program where he described his marathon swims in the Lake Michigan, English Channel, and the Farallon Islands including one of his most audacious racing moves, one of the greatest in open water swimming history. The 92-year-old
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Katie Rowe is an ocean swimmer and Hollywood stuntwoman who describes her career on WOWSA Live.
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Aiming For The Sky While Swimming In The World’s Oceans Courtesy of Sky News, English Channel. Lewis Pugh is a great storyteller. The United Nations Patron of the Oceans and International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer uses the world’s waterways to help tell his story while making appeals to government leaders to protect
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Brian Keenan On His Father Ted Keenan On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Brian Keenan (also known as Robbo) is the son of Irish swimmer Ted Keenan, a International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductee. Brian trained with his famed father and was on his escort boats during his marathon crossings
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Seal Beach, California. Mack’s Ear Dryer is battery-driver handheld device that dries ears naturally with warm, soothing air after swimming. “Drying your ears after you get out of the water is critical, especially if there is a possibility of swimming through slightly polluted water or there is any urban runoff in your
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Jamal Hill On Swimming Up Hill Towards Success On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Jamal Hill is one of the most interesting, inspirational, and introspective professional swimmers who I have ever meet,” says Steven Munatones who interviewed him for WOWSA Live. Guided by healer and swim coach Wilma Wong of Golden
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Yonaguni Island, Okinawa, Japan. In October 1994, Steven Munatones attempted and completed a solo 29 km circumnavigation of Yonaguni Island, the westernmost part of Japan in Okinawa – only 110 km from Taiwan. But he was not alone in pioneering this circumnavigation swim. The silver bodies of hundreds of hammerhead sharks circled
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Michael and Mackenzie Miller Talk Channel Swimming On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Michael Miller and his daughter Mackenzie Miller both crossed the Molokai Channel 30 years apart – using the same simple strategy: Walk in, swim across, walk out. Michael, the transplanted Ohioan, found himself on Oahu after hitchhiking his
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Milt Nelms On Open Water Swimming Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In today’s WOWSA Live, Catherine Breed talked about being exposed to viewing swimming from a different perspective by Milt Nelms while swimming at University of California Berkeley – see interview below. Instead of angles, Coach Nelms speaks about swimming with curves in mind.
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