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Newport Beach, home of The Wedge, the renowned body surfing spot in Southern California, had some pretty decent surf. And so it was today was no different. The organizers of the Newport Pier-2-Pier delayed the start a bit in order for the surf to calm a bit, but it was still a challenge when 6-8 […]
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The first team up on the blocks for the 2013 Tsugaru Channel season, Team Ocean-navi, set the wetsuit record for a single relay crossing during yesterday’s collective effort. The Tsugaru Channel Swimming Association confirmed the time of the rapid relay in 6 hours 44 minutes under the steady helm of Captain Mizushima. Coached by Masayuki
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Year in and year out, John Szum shows up like clockwork at the Nantasket Beach Swim, a charity swim organized by Swim Across America this morning in Hull, Massachusetts. Szum participates annually in the Nantasket Beach Swim with a passion and a smile. After losing his wife to cancer, Szum has raised the most amount
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FINA sanctions two different open water swimming professional circuits: the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup and the longer FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix. Swimmers head to Mexico, Canada, Hong Kong, Macedonia, Italy, Brazil, Argentina, and China to compete in the most competitive open water races on the planet. Suntanned and smiling, trained and
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Given Hong Kong’s current waste crisis, the 9th annual Sheko Challenge, and world’s only Trisolothon, will continue to be one of the only sports event in Hong Kong where zero plastic water bottles are used for the athletes. Under the leadership of race director Doug Woodring, this mindset and initiative directly help reduce the waste
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Try the Baro Cook, a portable system from Korea where you only need water to cook food and eat warm meals. The system comes in rectangular containers or drinking tumblers and uses heating agents to automatically heat up the water and quickly prepare warm food. The system is especially useful where there is no electricity,
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Alecia Kelly just got inked with a colorful tattoo that signifies her personal feelings about being both empowered and humbled by her experiences in the open water world. “The swimming community makes the world seem both smaller on the one hand, because of the camaraderie and having friends all over,” says the California swimmer. “The
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Young Harper of Redwood City in northern California is ready for the open water and all its marine life that he may encounter along the way. His mother digs nautical haircuts and open water swimming styles. “We practice different looks in the bath. We laugh and have fun with it,” says mom Alecia Kelly who
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Samantha Cowen is not only an open water swimming newbie, but a true beginner to the world of aquatics. The popular Johannesburg DJ trains with Roger Finch who is helping her and her friend Caren Strydom train for Robben Island swim. “I swim with them at Wits University pool which is an outdoor 50 meter
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