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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Team Santa Monica Open Water Clinic will be held on October 31st and November 1st. “The clinic is a fund-raising event to help develop the next generation of distance swimmers,” explains coach Dave Kelsheimer who was the 2015 recipient of the Glen S. Hummer Award and coached world […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Diana Nyad‘s memoir “Find a Way” was published to great fanfare this week. We recently saw Nyad do a dryland workout and found her focus and intensity to be, frankly, off the charts. For a 66-year-old to be able to push herself doing a such a physically difficult dryland
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Homecoming Day: Farallon Islands Tour and Swim, October 3rd 2015 from Kimberley Chambers on Vimeo. Kimberley Chambers joined the scientists at the Farallon Islands for a personal tour. “This trip was very significant for me, not the least of which because it was my first trip back to the islands since my solo Farallon Islands
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Photo courtesy of Team USA. Haley Anderson of Granite Bay, California and the Trojan Swim Club was named the Female Open Water Swimmer of the Year of USA Swimming as the annual United States Aquatic Sports Convention in Missouri. Anderson won the world 5 km title in Kazan, Russia in addition to qualifying for the
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Photos courtesy of Giorgio Scala of Deepbluemedia. Article courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jordan Wilimovsky of Malibu, California who swims for Team Santa Monica received the Fran Crippen Memorial Male Open Water Swimmer of the Year award at the United States Aquatic Sports Convention in Missouri. It was an award well-deserved as the 21-year-old
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the United States Aquatic Sports Convention in Missouri, Rowdy Gaines received the USA Swimming Award for his outstanding contributions to the sport. The USA Swimming Award is the highest honor among its 380,000 members. “I am incredibly humbled by this award, mainly because I think swimming has given
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Fourth Annual Pontchartrain Film Festival will be held on November 6th-7th. It opens with a free, outdoor screening of Dancing In the Water at the Mandeville Trailhead Amphitheater. Dancing In The Water is a feature-length film that follows Matt Moseley’s 25-mile swim across Lake Pontchartrain. A boat with
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his Journal in 1838: “Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.” Since
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Front page news in Japan described the nearly always turbulent Tsugaru Channel, its successes and failures during the 2015 season, its history, and how solo attempts and relay teams are coordinated by Masayuki Moriya of Ocean Navi. Photo includes the Ocean Navi team of Atusko Tamaru, Sakae Morikawa, Kiyoko
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. One year ago a local director met open water swimming visionary and advocate Jim Alabiso of Jacksonville, Florida and proposed commissioning a play inspired by his open water swimming adventures. “Some stories he read in newspapers or in my Water Works column in ARBUS Magazine or on social media,”
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