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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We mentioned practicing feeding and drafting in an Endless Pool in previous articles (posted here as well as kicking workouts (posted here), stroke technique (posted here), and strength-training exercises (posted here). But you can also practice sighting and the Endless Pool version of the Body Brain Confusion Swim made […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Besides swimming, kicking, pulling, aqua-walking and aqua-jogging in an Endless Pool, there are numerous other exercises one can do including strength training. Blast the Endless Pool to its highest speed and outstretch your arms as you press your palms together under the water. Push your hands together against the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Capri Djatiasmoro has seen it all. “Each swimmer has their own unique go-to comfort food. As a crew member, I have seen everything from bon bons, oatmeal cookies and Kit Kats to apple sauce, egg salad, and prosciutto. You name it, it ‘s out there.” In the open water
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Two days before the 2015 Rose Pitonof Swim from Manhattan Island to Coney Island, Spencer Schneider fell off his Vespa and received 11 stitches to close his wounds. Without his doctor’s permission, Schneider had to pull out of the Rose Pitonof Swim, but he immediately began to plan a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When we think of swimmers with great kicking ability throughout open water swimming history, we automatically think of swimmers like Greta Andersen, Larisa Ilchenko and Jordan Wilimovsky. These swimmers always have great body position and always remain streamlined and balanced in the water, whether it was in the beginning,
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Courtesy of Dr. Chris Stockdale. Alison Streeter is most closely associated with the English Channel with her 43 Channel crossings. Theodore Yach is closely associated with Robben Island as is Nino Fazio with the Strait of Messina, John York with the Catalina Channel, Lynne Cox with Antarctica, Linda Kaiser in the Hawaiian Islands, Kristian Rutford
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Daichi Suzuki, chairman of the Japan Sports Agency, did a site tour of the FINA World Swimming Championship venues to be used at the 2021 Championships in Fukuoka, Japan this week. In a significant change to the traditional sea swimming site used at the 2001 FINA World Championships in
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An Open Water Adventure From Île Saint-Joseph Courtesy of Ned Denison and Gary Emich, Devil’s Island, French Guiana. Devil’s Island (French: île du Diable) is the third largest island of the Îles du Salut island group in the Atlantic Ocean, located 14 km (9 miles) off the coast of French Guiana in South America. The
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimmers and beach goers around the world use all kinds of terms about their local waters, sometimes tranquil, sometimes turbulent. A colorful phrase used in Bermuda, as told by Sean O’Connell, is ‘sucked under the boilers‘. Its background is the following: “Bermuda is surrounded by reefs which,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Alessandro Pilati of Nuoto in Acque Libere (NAL) announced a new open water swimming circuit, the Gran Fondo Italia (Circuito Gran Fondo Italia) that includes five marathon races throughout Italy. “The races touch 5 regions from the south to the north of Italy with distances ranging from 15 to
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