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Courtesy of Phil White of the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association, Vermont. Picking the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association Swimmer of the Year for 2015 is not just a time to spotlight a single extraordinary swimmer, we relish the opportunity to look back over a truly robust year of swimming and think on […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Adam Walker’s biography, entitled Man vs Ocean: A Toaster Salesman Who Sets Out to Swim the World’s Deadliest Oceans and Change His Life For Ever, is now the #1 best seller among swimmer biographies on Amazon. Man vs. Ocean is about Walker‘s life-changing Oceans Seven journey swimming seven channels
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The National Adventure Awards celebrate the very best of adventure across England, Wales and Scotland. The awards are open to anyone and any member of the public can submit nominations for people, teams and businesses across a broad range of categories. The judging panel consists of individuals from a
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Courtesy of WUCF TV’s ONE Central Florida, Lucky’s Lake Swim in Lake Cane, Orlando, Florida. Lucky’s Lake Swim is a 1 km lake swim started by Lucky Meisenheimer in Lake Cane at his home in 1989 in Orlando, Florida. The free swim has achieved a cult status with open water swimmers and triathletes and was
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Charlotte Webby won her second consecutive national championship at the New Zealand Open Water Championships 10 km race in Lake Taupo. In a tune-up for the upcoming Australian Open Water Nationals and the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim qualifying race in Portugal in June, Webby led from the start to
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Epic Swim Festival attracted over 650 swimmers, racing in the Mini Epic 100m, Minor Epic 500m, Mid Epic 1 km, Epic 2.5 km, Masters 2.5 km Classic, Epic 5 km, New Zealand 5 km Open Water Championships, New Zealand 10 km Open Water Championships, Epic 10 km and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kane Radford won his fifth consecutive national championship at the New Zealand Open Water Championships 10 km race in Lake Taupo (Epic Swim Festival). In a tune-up for the upcoming Australian Open Water Nationals and the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim qualifying race in Portugal in June, Radford has maintained
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Suijutsu On NHK-Television Courtesy of NHK-TV on suijutsu. “Just get in and swim…” is an instruction that simply would not work in ancient Japan. No, the Japanese samurai learned suijutsu or suiei-jutsu (水術 in Japanese) as one form of a martial art of combative swimming. Centuries ago, the Japanese samurai encountered numerous situations where he
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Courtesy of Josep Bagur Gomila. Margarita ‘Tita’ Llorens Bagur is going for another unprecedented marathon swim: this time, 90 km between the island of Ibiza and the coastal city of Dénia between Alicante and Valencia, Spain. Last year, Llorens completed her longest swim to date: a 84.3 km swim between the islands of Ibiza and
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