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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Swimmers can run into all kinds of situations where their hearts spikes out of fear and worry. Sometimes the fear is misplaced and sometimes the fear is a result of a very real phenomenon. If swimmers head away from shore and unexpectedly hit a plastic bag or a bundle of kelp, the heart rate of […]
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Jacques Tuset is a 50-year-old french marathon swimmer and a French representative for the Channel Swimming Association. Besides winning the French Championships in 2005 at the age of 42 years, he is also president of a Surf Lifesaving Association in Montpellier. Tuset is a man whose DNA is all about open water swimming. He is
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SWIM4GOOD – THE GIBRALTAR CROSSING on behalf of Worldreader from Víctor Rins on Vimeo. A charity swim by Swim4Good with Mauricio Prieto, Susan Moody, and Emily Kunze.
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When we observe professional marathon races and amateur swims with an equal number of participants, one of the biggest differences we see is the relatively few numbers of packs of swimmers in the professional races compared with the amateur races. There are several reasons for this, but one principle helps shed light on the few
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“For a seemingly regular guy from Cambria, California it’s all about challenging our traditional understanding of ocean swimming and simply, our Earth’s waterscape. David Yudovin‘s personal and professional achievements are just part of the story. With such a down-to-earth style, he will share his passion and experiences.” Quoted from his new website here (davidyudovinchannelswimmer.com).
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While there are a select few who swim butterfly, backstroke, and breaststroke in the open water, the vast majority of open water swimmers focus on freestyle, both in competition and training. But the Open Water Swim Club has always recommended variety and incorporated a mixture of butterfly, backstroke, and breaststroke sets during its training sessions.
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Fergal Somerville of the Leinster Open Sea Committee will speak at the Global Open Water Swimming Conference this weekend. After completing his North Channel crossing earlier this summer, he continues to help out in the sport. Last week, he served as the observer for an unprecedented 12 km swim by Gary Fitzgerald of the Half
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Days after completing the English Channel in 10 hours 47 minutes in August, Attila Mányoki of Hungary headed over the Kalamata, Greece for the 25th annual Kalamata – Koroni Marathon. “On August 22nd, I drove back from the English Channel and I left for Greece on the 27th. During this time, there wasn’t a chance
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Andy Davis, Liz Fry, Jim Bayles, and Kevin Lederer swim from jetty to jetty like a postman does his mail routes. Over and over again, the quartet train while doing a 2.6-mile loop from jetty to jetty at Penfield Beach in Fairfield, Connecticut. Davis enjoys his training course so much, he wants others to join
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The bar was raised by a team in California and may be raised yet again by a team in Israel. The Night Train Swimmers set the world record for the longest non-stop ocean relay swim in history when they completed a 228-mile (367 km) swim down the California coast from north of Santa Barbara to
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