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The richest cash prize in the history of New Zealand swimming is on the line this weekend at the 2.8 km State King of the Bays event. The final round of the 6-race State New Zealand Ocean Swim Series goes from Milford Beach to Takapuna Beach. The best open water swimming talent from both sides […]
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2009 world 5 km champion Australian Melissa Gorman finds herself uncharacteristically in sixth place going into the final race at the New Zealand Ocean Swim Series. But she does not intend to stay in that position. Especially with $20,000 on the line. If Gorman wins the 2.8 km State King of the Bays event this
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BlueJourneyImmersion-LeoneClinic 2013 from Bruckner Chase on Vimeo.
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Do you ever find your mind wandering during an open water swim? If you remain focused or are one of the swimmers who can maintain a disciplined stroke count up to tens of thousands, then major kudos to you. However, if you answered yes and occasionally – or frequently – get lost in your thoughts
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On April 1st, Donal Buckley reported on how the introduction of PED (performance enhancing drugs) by the World Anti-Doping Agency will affect all open water swimmers (read here). Among the various issues Buckley raises, we wonder about how the different channel swimming associations will determine and manage the following issues: 1. Methodology of Collection 2.
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The La Jolla Rough Water Swim. The Waikiki Roughwater Swim. Open water swimming used to be called many different things in the 20th century: long distance swimming, Rough water swimming, wild swimming, ocean swimming, and marathon swimming. Rough water swimming (or roughwater swimming) is simply swimming in open bodies of water, generally in an ocean
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He pulled off a brilliantly tactical marathon swim that played to his strengths at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Tunisian 3-time Olympic medalist Oussama Mellouli was apparently ready to ride off into the sunset as one of the greatest long distance freestylers of all time, but it was not to be. In his post-Olympic glory,
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Open water swimmers Sean Ryan and Ryan Feeley both scored points while swimming the 500-yard and 1,650-yard events at the NCAA Division I championships, helping their University of Michigan Wolverines teammates to their 12th overall NCAA Division I championship over the weekend at the American men’s collegiate championships. The speed both Ryan and Feeley demonstrated
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The 5th annual Be Kind To Your Yacker Week, a celebration of escort crews, kayakers, paddlers and volunteers, is upon us once again. Initiated in 2009 by Phil White (aka Flipperless Fil) of Derby, Vermont and the co-founder of Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association, this week is officially Yacker Week in the global open
Haiku To The Yacker Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In celebration of Be Kind To Your Yacker Week, Steven Munatones of the World Open Water Swimming Association penned the Haiku To The Yacker. at night alongside darkness on the left and right my lifeline and guide Copyright © 2008 – 2013 by World Open
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