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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
As an open water swimmer, American professional marathon swimmer Ashley Twichell logs many thousands of kilometers of training in the pool and open water. 90% of her pool practices tend to be freestyle with an average of 70,000-80,000 meters per week. This is her reflection on how she incorporates rest, recovery and rehabilitation into her […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Athletes of every sport spend hours of time preparing for a race, match, game, or event. Preparation includes practice, workouts, drills, scrimmages, weight-training, dryland work, rehabilitation, and mental preparation. While majority of athletes accept that it is the work they put in beforehand that has the greatest impact on
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Few things are as amazing and inspiring as watching veteran Angela Maurer swim stroke-for-stroke at the highest levels of the sport. Motherhood has not slowed her down, but the years have added to her wisdom and prowess in international marathon swims. “I will turn 38 years old during the 2013 FINA World Swimming Championships in
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Part of the lure of open water swimming is the opportunity to travel to new places, meet new people, and experience different types of venues and conditions, from tranquil lakes to angry seas. Swimming at high altitude in Switzerland or battling the high surf of Hawaii can create aquatic differences that are greater than between
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In preparation for his upcoming attempt to cross the Bering Strait in August, Nejib Belhedi extended his record swim by swimming 13 km across the Sidi Salem Dam in Testour, Tunisia. His 3 hours 15 minutes swim in the 7°C water was, he explained, “An important link to meet the challenge of crossing the Bering
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Robert Hamilton of Glasgow, Scotland has over 22 years of experience in the sports management industry as well as teaching swimming programmes and coaching at the Olympic level. Hamilton is also an open water coach with an overflowing interest in developing open water swimming in Scotland. His aim is to have a full Scottish series
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What Carina Bruwer does is, in a few words, maternally inspirational and athletically amazing. She has completed marathon swims across False Bay in South Africa, the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain to Morocco, Swim Around Key West in Florida (USA), International Swimming Marathon of Toroneos Gulf (Greece), English Channel in 12 hours 3 minutes, Around
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Allogrooming is when animals like monkeys groom each other, usually assisting each other with parasite removal and hygiene. Animals reciprocate in cleaning each other and removing parasites like ticks, fleas, and lice. When we visit open water swims from South Africa to Brazil, from Cayman Islands to Mexico, from Fiji to Hawaii, we inevitably observe
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Bulgarians (Petar Stoychev) and Swiss (Swann Oberson) trained with Germans (Thomas Lurz). Italians have trained in Florida and Russians have trained in Brazil in preparation for major international competitions. Ned Denison attracts swimmers from all over the globe to his swimming grounds in Sandycove Island while dozens of swimmers from all kinds of nations descend
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People eat more when they dine together than when they eat alone. But we often find that open water swimmers are much more likely to mimic the good traits – or challenges – of their open water friends, teammates and colleagues than not. When pushing themselves, many open water swimmers seem to be able to
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