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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Around the shorelines of the open water swimming community from Santa Monica to São Paulo, there seems to be an increasing number of trident tattoos. Copyright © 2008 – 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. John Burleigh started the Cumbrae to Largs Swim with 8 other open water friends back in 2006. The 10th annual charity swim support the Gillian’s Saltire Appeal and is a 1.7-mile channel swim between Cumbrae and Largs about 33 miles (53 km) from Glasgow in western Scotland. The Gillian’s
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The inaugural Fear No Pier swim along the Southern California coast was conceived by Scott Zornig of Laguna Beach. The multi-stage expedition swim consisted of swimming a cumulative total of 19 km of ocean swimming around 27 piers that were spread out over 311 miles (500 km) of California
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Many people, especially practitioners of Parkour and Freerunning, find benefit in using quadrupedal movement in order to build full body strength. Moving quadrupedally exercises the thighs, core, shoulders, and triceps. Quadrupedal movement for exercise sounds to us very much like the sport of swimming or aquaour. Photo by Giorgio
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ice swimming, cold water acclimatization, rough water training, cross training, massive calorie input, year-round distance training. All these things are taken for granted by contemporary open water swimmers, but these concepts were singlehandedly discovered and utilized by a lone swimmer far, far away from the world’s oceans and channels.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Faisal Ahmad, Jordan’s national swim team coach from Amman, helps beginners in addition to the elite swimmer of his nation. In the northern Jordanian city of Irbid, Coach Ahmad is transforming the young lives of over 30 orphans through a program called The National Program for the Development of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We watched the video below, produced by C.G. P. Grey, and were stunned. We asked ourselves: “In a future world where automation and bots remove the need for human labor, what is left for the human population to do?” If humans are not needed for transportation, food production or
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With fewer than 600 days before the next Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and fewer than 200 days before the first Olympic marathon swimming qualifier in Russia, athletes are really focusing on their training now. Their coaches, friends, teammates, family members and neighbors are
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Photo and story background courtesy of Anthony Grote/Gameplan Media. The incredible Lorna Cochran is training to set two unheard-of records: each record will be a precursor to the future of open water swimming. Last year, the South African swimmer set the record for the oldest finisher at the aQuellé Midmar Mile, at 90 years young.
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Courtesy of Doug Woodring in Hong Kong. Pre-race focus and a visualization of the swim course…a picture of concentration and anticipation. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association