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Open Water Ranking Among The World’s Toughest Sports

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Illustration by Petra Zeiler for Outside Magazine. Dan Roe penned an interesting article in Outside Magazine called Ranking the World’s Toughest Outdoor Sports. The article focused on a comparison of rock climbing, downhill mountain biking, Nordic skiing, ultra-running and open water swimming. In order to complete the rankings of the world’s toughest outdoor sports, including […]

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2016 U.S. Masters Swimming National Coaching Clinic

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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Cokie Lepinski, Head Coach of the Swymnut Masters, and the San Mateo Athletic Club is hosting a sold-out 3-day U.S. Masters Swimming National Coaching Clinic on November 11th-13th in San Mateo, California. There appears to be a demand for the National Coaches Clinic where a combination of classroom and

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Swim Training’s Effects On The Rest Of Triathlon Training

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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Tri Specific‘s Kristian Manietta of Australia was interviewed about swimming training and how not to denegrate the rest of the triathlete’s training during the third session of the 2016 Global Swimming Summit. Coach Manietta reiterated his perspectives during the 38-minute interview. “Triathletes should not think of swimming as the

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Fill 3 Buckets for Better Swimming By Gerry Rodrigues

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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “No butterfly, backstroke or breaststroke,” says host Chris Ritter of Ritter Sports Performance who interviewed Tower 26 founder Gerry Rodrigues about open water swimming for triathletes during the first 58-minute session of the 2016 Global Swimming Summit. “Just freestyle…for a newbie or triathlete or a competitive swimmer hoping to

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Nejib Belhedi Pulls 100 Tons 550 Meters In World Iron Swim

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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nejib Belhedi keeps increasing his weight…pulled. On October 23rd, he pulled three boats, weighing a collective 100 tons, 550 meters in 32 minutes 30 minutes through the Bizerta Channel as part of his World Iron Swim Series in Tunisia. This attempt broke his previous World Iron Swim record where

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