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Ned Denison embodies the spirit of open water swimming 365 days of the year. He not only possesses the spirit of adventure, tenacity and perseverance that open water swimmers are known for, but he also positively influences the world of open water swimming throughout the year. Every year. Year in and year out. But it […]
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Nature (founded in 1869) is a prestigious, peer-review weekly, international scientific journal founded in 1869. Chelsea M. Rochman (Aquatic Health Program, University of California, Davis), Eunha Hoh (Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University), Tomofumi Kurobe (University of California, Davis) and Swee J. The (University of California, Davis) published a paper in Nature
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Katie Rowe is a former world-class swimmer from Long Beach, California. Whether she is at the beach, in the surf, on a pool deck or appearing on television or in the movies, Rowe cuts a eye-catching figure. The all-around waterwoman turned to Hollywood after her academic studies were over.
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At the University of California San Diego, the OptiBrain Center serves as a consortium of cognitive neuroscientists and researchers from the Warfighter Performance Department of the Naval Health Research Center, Naval Special Warfare Group ONE, and University of California San Diego Department of Psychiatry. These OptiBrain researchers have conducted studies of elite performance and stress
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Our favorite workout is swimming along the shoreline that runs fairly straight when the surf is high. We love to swim along the surf break just right outside where the ocean waves start to break. As we swim parallel to coastline, we are in a great location to watch the big rollers come in and
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You know you are a wily old veteran swimmer if you… 1. can remember swimming an entire workout without goggles 2. came out of workout and remember seeing rings around all the lights 3. can remember a time when only rectangular-shaped hand paddles were used 4. can remember a time when there was only one
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Nuala Moore is swimming casually in Ventry beach in Dingle, Ireland. And then the next thing she knows, she is serving as the cover model in posters in Puerto Jarocho in Mexico. As the poster swimmer for the 2nd Gran Travesia de Agua Abiertas Veracruz, the photo captures the tranquility of swimming in Dingle –
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Sometimes athletes hit rocks, jetties, turn buoys, flotsam, jetsam or other athletes while competing in open water swims. Sometimes, they hit things or people quite hard causing lacerations and blood to appear. In cold water or in murky waters, it may be difficult to know that you are bleeding in these cases. But if you
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Draft off the hips or lower legs of the swimmer in front of you during long stretches between turn buoys. Stay within the V section of their wake. Drafting off the side enables you to breathe and look at your competitors instead of spending the time and effort to lift your neck and sight forward.
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With the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games coming up, the Olympic torch is being carried to the home of the 2014 Winter Olympics. It was carried over ice-cold rivers and mountains on its way to Sochi with the help of famed Russian ice swimmers Alexander Brylin and Sergey Popov. They both served as the Russian
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