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According to Donal Buckley of the LoneSwimmer.com who is in contact with the Stephen Redmond team headquartered on Oahu and Maui, Stephen is attempting his fifth leg of the Oceans Seven today. With the Catalina Channel only recently completed, his body has little time to recover, but with 80% of his effort depending on his […]
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The Vitruvian Man is a world-renowned drawing created by Leonardo da Vinci circa 1487. The drawing and accompanying text are sometimes called the Canon of Proportions. The drawing shows and explains the correlations of ideal human proportions. If Leonardo would have made the Vitruvian Swimmer for open water swimming, what would those proportions and explanations
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Thinking imaginatively, the great scientist, painter, inventor, engineer and sculptor Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) would have enjoyed open water swimming in modern times. There are various hints in his writing, drawings, quotes and thinking that led us to believe so. Based on his most famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man is where he presented the ideal
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According to a Michelle Macy tweet, “Anna-Carin Nordin completed Molokai Channel after 18+ hours. She looks amazing and all smiles“. After her 43.4K solo from Eckerö, Finland to Grisslehamn, Sweden in 14 hours 31 minutes under very rough seas and her Molokai conquest, this has been some year for the 41-year-old. Copyright © 2011 by
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If you ever wanted to swim in an atoll, head to Bora Bora. The Bora Bora Liquid Festival is a 7-day celebration of sports and ocean-based endurance events taking place on Bora Bora, Polynesia’s most beautiful island atoll. Race director Stephan Lambert, the event has grown since 2000 into an open water celebration of sporting
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You do not need a passport to cross it, but the shoreline is a distinct border marking the beginning of the world of open water, where rules and expectations are significantly different from those of the terrestrial world. If you cannot see the bottom, the open water course is essentially unfathomable, leading to an experience
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Swimsuit manufacturer FINIS has a special offer supporting next month’s Pan American Master’s swimming championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For a limited time, masters open water swimmers can pick up one of FINIS’s Velo technical swimsuit at a very special price for open water swimming competitors. Visit the FINIS web store and use code
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Terry cloth is a highly-absorbent fabric that has so many uses for the open water swimmer. Used to dry off, cleaning, wiping off sand, Vaseline or lanolin, sitting or lounging on the sand or ground, terrycloth is arguably the most essential material for aquatic athletes. It can be manufactured by weaving or knitting. The length
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Anna-Carin Nordin is a 41-year-old marathon swimmer from Sweden who swam 43.4K from Eckerö, Finland to Grisslehamn, Sweden in 14 hours 31 minutes under very rough seas. And now the former English Channel swimmer (12 hours flat) is in the warm waters waters of Hawaii, trying to tackle the tropically tough Molokai Channel. Talk about
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While perusing around SlowTwitch’s We Noticed, we noticed the crowded conditions at the swim start of the Norwegian Triathlon Championships in a photo (left) submitted by Dag Oliver. What were those kayakers thinking?!? Surely, they wanted to be close to the swimmers, but that close? In aerial photo submitted by Paul Jewkes of the Ironman
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