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On December 19th in Dublin, Owen O’Keefe, Nuala Moore and Pádraig Mallon will be up for the Outsider People of the Year awards in the following categories: Most Inspiring Person, Audience Award, Breakthrough Performance of 2013, Most Devoted to the Outdoor Scene and Outsider of the Year. Outsider Magazine covers adventure, surfing, mountain biking, hiking, […]
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Open water freestyler…body surfer promoter…world-record high diver…surfer shaper…Alick Wickham was truly an aquatic innovator and pioneer. Wickham from Roviana Lagoon in the Solomon Islands was credited with shaping the first surfboard in Australia and introducing the crawl stroke (freestyle) to Australia when he demonstrated the crawl at Bronte Beach in Australia, although the freestyle at
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Dr. Steve Minaglia lives a very busy life as a physician, editor and father of 4 young children. But he gets in enough time to train for his channel swims throughout Hawaii even if he is only one of four board-certified specialists in the field of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery in Hawaii. “I
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On November 30th, Dr. Steve Minaglia completed an 11 hour 10 minute two-way crossing of the Pailolo Channel between the islands of Molokai and Maui. Escorted by pilot Paul Luuwai from Maui and paddle boarder Blair Norris from Oahu, the 40-year-old Professor at the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii
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Swimmers who have been stung by marine life in Mexico, Australia, the South Pacific, the Caribbean Sea and other warm bodies of water understand very well the pain, discomfort and effects of jellyfish stings that are felt by cold-water swimmers in the English Channel and Catalina Channel. Is there any relationship between the warmth of
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A number of renowned ice swimmers are invited to participate in a demonstration event at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games on February 2nd. The ice swimmers will swim with a number of national flags behind the Olympic Torch to help usher in the Winter Olympics. Ice swimmers Alexander Brylin and Sergey Popov are shown
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Roger Finch brings a heartwarming story from his native South Africa. “I am just the proudest non-parent around. Early this year I saw a young girl training much the same time of the day as me in a squad. What interested me was her training ethic, no messing talking or anything just work. I noticed
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Even without a place to practice open water swimming in her native city of Delhi, Indian swimmer Meenakshi Pahuja has traveled around the world as a swimming ambassador from India. The busy Assistant Professor in Physical Education & Programme Officer Alumna Relations at the Lady Shri Ram College in University of Delhi has participated in
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The Indonesia Swimming Federation was selected as an Honour Organisation for the Class of 2014 by the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. The trail-blazing Federation and its Open Water Swimming Committee was only recently formed in 2005, but it has been making strategic moves on the grassroots level and the international forefront as the
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The women’s race at the State Bay of Islands Classic today in the 2013 State New Zealand Ocean Swim Series was expected to be a tight battle between two of New Zealand’s up-and coming-swimmers Liana Smith and Paige Schendelaar-Kemp, who are both from Auckland. But the 15-year-old Schendelaar-Kemp quickly made it look easy with a
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