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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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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Craig Lord of SwimVortex broke the news that FINA is considering use of wetsuits at the 2016 Rio Olympic 10K Marathon Swim (see here). Lord reported that FINA will consider rules that will allow wetsuits to be worn during the Olympic 10K marathon swim in Copacabana Beach. Apparently, the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Beth French is a 39-year-old British swimmer, motivational speaker, and coach. The 24-hour Club member plans to become the first person to complete a Calendar Year Oceans Seven. Her Calendar Year Oceans Seven will start with the North Channel, then the Catalina Channel, the Molokai Channel, the Cook Strait,
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Courtesy of Deepanjan Ghosh about Bimal Kumar Chandra. Deepanjan Ghosh writes about one of India’s pioneering English Channel swimmers in the article, Sink Or Swim: The Bimal Kumar Chandra Story, here. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. From the general public’s perspective, the ultimate achievement of pool swimmers is competing in the Summer Olympic Games. For many channel swimmers, the ultimate achievement is crossing the English Channel. Some athletes do both. There are not many of these cross-over athletes, but there are a few dozen of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are a number of colorful champions, powerful personalities and charismatic characters in the open water swimming world with great nicknames: From Double Down to Fly Guy, from the Paddlin’ Professor to the Dolphinman, these individuals come from all walks of life with a characteristically deep passion for the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. That was easy. I don’t need my goggles. I’m not hungry after that long workout. Those stings don’t bother me. I love my goggle tan. Getting lanolin on my clothes doesn’t bother me. My wife/husband doesn’t mind sand all over the car. I never tie my suit. I only
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