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Building strong abdominal muscles is key to improving your open water swimming abilities. A strong core benefits open water swimmers especially when the water is choppy, lumpy and bumpy. Swimmers can remain more streamlined when they sight, their ability to swim straight is enhanced when their core is stronger and their body is not twisting […]
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Life-Altering Encounters By Brave Ocean Enthusiasts Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nine individuals, well aware of the importance of sharks to the marine ecosystem, are pushing for a resolution to greatly improve how fish stocks are managed worldwide, including shark species of which nearly a third are threatened with extinction or or on the
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People from far and wide have been curious about Diana Nyad‘s swim from Cuba to Florida. Diana is still being patient and still hanging strong, waiting for the optimal conditions…which will not come this week apparently. The weather forecast for southern Florida for the remainder of this week: Tuesday, September 14th: east winds near 15
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Diana Nyad does it. Hundreds of channel swimmers do it every year from Hawaii to Dover. And so did Jim Bayles of Connecticut around Block Island in 2005. The Daily News of Open Water Swimming had previously posted dozens of dream swims around the world – swims that have not yet been done, but may
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72 years after professional swimmer Orson Spencer first set the record in Great Salt Lake from Antelope Island to Black Rock Beach in 3:40:52, Gordon Gridley set a new record for the 8.12-mile course in 3:24:37 to swim his way into the record books in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. What was most
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A Manhattan Mermaid On An Open Water Journey Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Deanne Draeger replicated the first swim from Manhattan Island to Coney Island last month. Draeger celebrated the 99th anniversary of 17-year-old Rose Pitonof‘s swim from East 26th Street in Manhattan Island to the Steeplechase Pier in Coney Island. Like Rose, Draeger
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Rob Dumouchel of RobAquatics, the most passionate open water guy who’ll ever met who swims open water races from coast to coast, provided a detailed overview of the Big Shoulders swim in Lake Michigan off the shores of Chicago. The sounds from Rob‘s video of the elite heat gives a hint of the winds faced
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In Susan Casey‘s new book, THE WAVE: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean, she uses her uniquely colorful language to explain the lifestyles, mentality and exploits of the world’s greatest big wave surfers. The celebrated author and former swimmer perfectly captures the essence and mindset of the modern-day daredevils of
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The RiverFest 2010 kicked off with an endurance event in the open water, a 11.7-mile swim down the Willamette River from Oregon City to Portland. Nine solo swimmers and one relay team completed the RiverFest Swim that has opened up the waterways and mindset of other endurance athletes and open water swimmers in the state
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A total of 9,147 individuals (unique viewers) watched some portion of the live streaming of Friday’s Manhattan Island Marathon Swim world record attempt according to the certified statistics on UStream. While Mark Warkentin and Petar Stoychev, two Olympic swimmers, failed to break the record held by Shelley Taylor-Smith, Mark explains how difficult the swim was
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