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sounds good. nice you picked up Niek and my tip on that. I wish them well. they are still within the Belgium federation though a bit rogue – a rumor – don’t know the validity of that. I wonder why our Belgium counterparts in the IMSHoF did not consider them? OK… perhaps because it is […]
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The 4th Annual Lake Tahoe Sharkfest® Swim is scheduled for Sunday, August 25, 2013 and details and registration (now open!) can be found at sharkfestswim.com. Next year’s event will be moving from Incline Village to the spectacular Sand Harbor State Park, the most stunningly beautiful, boulder-strewn area of Lake Tahoe. Sign-up soon as we imagine
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The background of this issue can be found at the Marathon Swimmers Forum where here. For a detailed analysis of the issue, readers can follow the Blog of The Year produced by Donal Buckley here. With an increasing amount of information available online, more swimmers are becoming more aware of more possibilities and happenings in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It gives us great pleasure and is indeed a great honour to host in 2017 the 2nd Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships over 1000 m freestyle in our city of sport, Burghausen. Following the World Champs on 6-Jan, the Aqua Sphere German Open will take place for the
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Courtesy of Gregory S. Rotole, D.D.S. of Huntington Beach, California. In the pool, the body dolphin – also known as the fifth stroke – is used off the turns in pool swimming for maximum speed and efficiency. Analogously, adaptation of the body dolphin to open water and distance events permits the swimming of the other
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Back in the 20th century, professionals in pool swimming were strongly criticized and looked down upon. Administrators, referees and athletes who had the wrong value system The Americans fiercely stick to their amateur roles with a vast majority believing that anyone who makes money in the sport is somehow doing something wrong or participating with
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Nuala Moore and Anne Marie Ward prefer to swim cold. They have ventured between the Bering Strait as part of the 2013 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year team. They have visited China and Russia to participate in winter swimming competitions. And they have enjoyed ice swims from Ireland to cold water fun
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How to survive in a shipwreck? Here are my personal top 10… 1. Hop into a row boat (after giving the distress call on the radio) 2. Grab a life vest 3. Hang onto jetsam if a row boat or life vest are not available 4. Hope the water temperature is warm (if not, put
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