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Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, globally known by her stage name Beyoncé, is an extremely popular American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress…who sounds like an open water swimmer by this interview with Shape Magazine: …I love the sound of the ocean and the way the water feels on my skin. It’s like it baptizes me. It also […]
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The multi-talented Carina Bruwer, the lead player of SAMA Award-winning instrumental pop group Sterling EQ, successfully rounded Cape Point in South Africa this Tuesday. The renowned South African open water swimmer finished the 8 km extreme Swim for Hope in 2 hours 36 minutes. The solo charity swim was performed in support of the Little
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When Open Water Source coaches introduce feeding and hydration to open water swimmers, they break up the teaching into bite-sized segments in what they call the Open Water 6T: Tools Techniques Timing Tactics Turf Taste 1. Tools includes the feeding instrument (feeding stick, hand-to-hand, rope-attached cup), the marine vessel
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In order to help elevate the sport of open water swimming, FINA’s most experienced open water swimming representatives from the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee give lectures and share their expertise and experience with coaches, administrators, and athletes around the world. Zouheir El Moufti of Morocco (shown on left) and Sam Greetham of England
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Chicken Little is a folk tale about a chicken that believes the world is coming to an end. The phrase “The sky is falling!” features prominently in the story. The sky is falling is a common idiom indicating a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent. Lynn Kubasek tells us about Chicken-Little-of-the-Sea in the
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One of the great things about the Midmar Mile in South Africa is when families swim together. Mothers and sons. Fathers and daughters. Brothers and sisters. Husbands and wives. Copyright © 2013 by Open Water Swimming
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Douglas Mckell asked the English Channel swimming community how best to cope with the contraction of tendons and muscles in your arm which causes me to have my hand begin to make an involuntary fist while swimming in water below 55ºF (12.7ºC)? Ice swimming stalwart and International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame honouree Ned Denison
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Haley Anderson, Ashley Twichell, Christine Jennings, Eva Fabian, Emily Brunemann, and Becca Mann…now that is a loaded field at the upcoming USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in Castaic Lake in Southern California. First there is the recent graduate from USC, Anderson, the Olympic silver medalist in the 10K marathon swim. Then, there is
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One of the prettiest sights we have ever seen in the professional marathon swimming circuit was the beautiful pink swimsuit worn by Pilar Geijo of Argentina against the tropical blue of the Caribbean Sea at the 15 km FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix race in Isla Cozumel in Mexico. Geijo’s choice of colors in
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Swimming coaches the world over always talk about the important of a high elbow in the arm stroke in order to optimally position the hand and forearm. The best swimmers in the world utilize a high elbow position to get the most out of every stroke and maximize their propulsive forces. Olympic medalist and world
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