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When Legacy Were Greater Back When Photo courtesy of John Titchen. Duke Kahanamoku was one of the most celebrated watermen and aquatic celebrities in history. Kahanamoku, born in 1890, was a 5-time Olympic medalist in swimming, an actor, a lawman, an early beach volleyball player, a renowned lifeguard, and a businessman credited with spreading the […]
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Swimming Around The World, Olympian Ashley Twichell On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU, Huntington Beach, California. Sixth place never seemed so good – or such a relief – for 5 km world champion Ashley Twichell. She has won world championship races, both individually and on relays. She has won multiple USA Swimming national titles in
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Lockdown Swimming Around The World Courtesy of WOWSA, Cape Town, South Africa and Flathead Lake, Montana. Open water swimmers are flexible, adaptable, and creative. If the water gets rougher or colder, they adapt and swim on. If the currents and tides gets stronger and flows in the opposite direction, they adapt to the situation both
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Dreaming Big With Jaimie Monahan On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU, Huntington Beach, California. New Yorker Jaimie Monahan was told after one of her Ice Miles in Siberia by the attending physician, “You have no vital signs (because he could not obtain her blood pressure), but you seem OK.” “I was smiling and laughing,” she
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Dipping At The Ponds: Patrick McLennan Explains On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU, Huntington Beach, California. “Whether it is dipping or marathon swimming, swimming brings people together,” observed WOWSA Live host and International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame chairman Ned Denison. New Zealand filmmaker and cold water swimmer Patrick McLennan then explained how the unique
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Closing In On The Ice Sevens Courtesy of Ram Barkai, International Ice Swimming Association. Jaimie Monahan and Ger Kennedy are the only swimmers who have completed the Ice Sevens. Monahan was the pioneer in completing 7 Ice Miles under the International Ice Swimming Association requisite requirements, achieved in June 2018. Kennedy became the second person
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Paul Georgescu And Ned Denison discuss their marathon and ice swimming experiences on WOWSA Live
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Sarah Turner Talks About Lockdown’s Impact On Swimmers On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU, Huntington Beach, California. Dr. Sarah Turner discussed the unprecedented impact of lockdowns across the world due to the coronavirus pandemic with Ned Denison on today’s
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Swimming Towards The Light With A Sense Of Urgency Courtesy of Lewis Pugh Foundation, Antarctica. Lewis Pugh describes his 1 km Icesheet Swim in a supraglacial lake swim in Antarctica in raw footage from the Lewis Pugh Foundation. Follow Pugh @lewispugh. For more information, visit lewispughfoundation.org. Copyright © 2020 by Lewis Pugh Foundation
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The 9 Hands Of Swimming Written by Chris Morgan, inspired by Andre Metzger. Vintage photo above shows young boys learning to swim while ironically appearing that they could also be learning to wrestle. Swimming improvement is, and will always be, a search for the best technique…whether it be through recycled biomechanical theories, hydrodynamics, physics or
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