To educate, entertain, and enthuse all those who venture beyond the shoreline
World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
A Passion For The Ice By Dr. Nataliya Fatyanova Courtesy of Nuala Moore. To date, 483 swimmers from 38 countries have completed 330 Ice Miles – and hundreds more have competed in Ice Kilometers in many ice swimming events around the world. With an increasing number of ice swimmers doing increasingly colder and more extreme […]
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Courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame and Challenger Community News, Western New York. The exploits of Charles Jackson French and Charles Chapman, Jr. are part of open water swimming lore that was part the International Swimming Hall of Fame’s Black Swimming History Exhibition [see here]. The Exhibition told of the long-lost aquatic history of
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A Renaissance man is often applied to the gifted people of the Renaissance era (from the 14th to 17th century) who sought to develop their full intellectual, artistic, social and physical capabilities. The term often describes the great thinkers like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo Galilei, and Francis Bacon. So if that term was used
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The Power Of The Mind The Mind in Cold Water, courtesy of Tjerk Visscher, Blaricum, North Holland, The Netherlands.
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NieuwjaarZIT Courtesy of Tjerk Visscher, Blaricum, North Holland, The Netherlands. On 6 January 2019 as in previous years [see videos below], Health Center FIT organized another Polar Bear Swim with its Fit NieuwjaarsZit in Voorma en Walch under the guidance of Blaricum Wim Hof trainer Henk van den Bergh.
A Renaissance man is often applied to the gifted people of the Renaissance era (from the 14th to 17th century) who sought to develop their full intellectual, artistic, social and physical capabilities. The term often describes the great thinkers like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo Galilei, and Francis Bacon. So if that term was used
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Thinking imaginatively, the great scientist, painter, inventor, engineer and sculptor Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) would have enjoyed open water swimming in modern times. There are various hints in his writing, drawings, quotes and thinking that led us to believe so. Based on his most famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man is where he presented the ideal
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Richard Royal Crosses A Risky River Courtesy of Richard Royal, Humber, Northern England. After swimming 12 km in the North Sea from the Principality of Sealand to Felixstowe on UK’s east coast in August 2018 [see video below], British swimmer and former water polo player Richard Royal then completed the first two-way 3.7 km solo
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That Is How I Will Be Strong Courtesy of Ori Yehezkel, Sea of Galilee, Israel. It is not often – but it is very good – when open water swimmers are mentioned alongside great athletes in other sports. In a Hebrew-language book called Lexicon of Sports, edited by U. Simri and I. Pax and published
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A Childhood Dream Realized Courtesy of Endless Pools, Redondo Beach, California. After decades of fin swimming and professional marathon swimming, Yuko Matsuzaki finally achieved one of her childhood dreams: setting a Guinness World Record. She did it by swimming 24 hours in an Endless Pool in Redondo Beach, California at the WOWSA Ocean Fest. Matsuzaki
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