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The dislocated shoulder that Marcel Schouten experienced in the USA Swimming National Open Water Championships reminds us of the physicality that is rampant in the sport. The Dutch marathon swimmer must pulled back during the race so hard that he heard something pop in his shoulder and felt immediate pain. He stopped and pulled himself […]
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Courtesy of Hugh Brasher of Swim Serpentine, London. Even Texans are heading to London for the Swim Serpentine in September in London’s Hyde Park. 30-year-old Kandice Kirby is planning to celebrate her birthday by travelling 4,846 miles from Houston to London for the inaugural one-mile swim. “The race week falls a week after my birthday
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. GlaxoSmithKline will support Michael Ventre with body composition testing, physiological testing, functional movement tests and cognitive tests to understand how his cognitive state is affected during his planned 3,800 miles (6,115 km) New York to London Swim. “The science team from the GlaxoSmithKline Human Performance Lab in London will
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Are you a born-digital open water swimmer or a born-analog swimmer? You are a born-digital swimmer, if you began your open water career at a time when: * you informed your friends, family and colleagues about your swims and training via email * you posted information about your swims
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jared Anderson wrote an article in the latest issue of SwimSwam Magazine in which Stephen Redmond gave tidbits of information about each of the channel of the Oceans Seven. Redmond said of the Catalina Channel, “Catalina was the only channel that we swam on the exact day and time
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the 2016 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in Florida, NBC reported [here] that the Associated Press found that viral levels in Rio de Janeiro were 30,000 times higher than is considered alarming in the U.S. and Europe. We find this reporting about the water safety situation
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts graduate students Jonas Edvard and Nikolaj Steenfatt take fucus seaweed, a type of algae, from the Danish coastline and create chairs and lamps with it. They dry and grind the seaweed into a powder. Then cook it into a glue, using the natural
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The young shall inherit the world…and some of them are doing something about it. While Japanese designers Kosuke Araki, Noriaki Maetani, and Akira Muraoka are exploring a new type of packaging that uses agar that is derived from marine algae, Ari Jónsson is doing his part halfway across the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Daily News of Open Water Swimming: How do you feel ready to compete in an open water competition (winter swim, marathon swim, channel crossing, ice swim)? Adam Walker (aka Ocean Walker): I think training is the key. For me, doing 4-5 sessions a week of quality. I benefited the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Adam Eilath will attempt to break one of the longest standing records in the open water swimming world. The 28-year-old Israeli will attempt to break Suzanne Heim-Bowen‘s record of 6 crossings of the Golden Gate Bridge. He will attempt to cross the channel underneath the Golden Gate Bridge 8
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