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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “We all have one ‘channel’ to cross: be it the English Channel, thirty minutes of daily exercise, or just not quitting school.” So said Antonio Argüelles Díaz-González, the epitome of a Renaissance Man in the open water swimming world. The Mexican business leader and endurance athlete was voted into […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (IMSHOF) is proud to announce the following honourees of its Class of 2014: Honour Swimmers: * Antonio Argüelles Díaz-González (Mexico) * Forrest Nelson (U.S.A.) * Martin Strel (Slovenia) Honour Administrator: * Marty Veen (Netherlands) Honour Organisations: * Jersey Long Distance Swimming Club
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. John Gunn, Joel Richards, Ali Wilde, and Edward Morgan are heading out of their geographic zone and entering a more familiar comfort zone. What is their comfort zone? A physiological and psychological state where they fight to overcome discomfort, elements of risk, bone-penetrating cold and marine life. The quarter
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Foreign swimmers heading over to Japan have expressed concerns about swimming along the Japan archipelago due to the tsunami that destroyed the nuclear reactor in Fukushima, Japan in 2011. Ocean-goers wonder if swimming in the Pacific Ocean poses any risks – significant or
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kenichi Setsumasa completed a 9 hour 48 minute crossing of the Tsugaru Channel, a long-held goal. He started swimming at the age of five and continued through his school years where he retired as a national-level freestyler. Four years ago, the 24-year-old Japanese became hooked on open water swimming
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Like her male counterpart on top of the podium Yasunari Hirai, Charlotte Webby has earned the maximum points in the State Ocean Swim Series after winning her second consecutive victory at the 2.9 km State Harbour Crossing in Auckland today. Webby from New Plymouth dominated the field and finished
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Japanese Olympian Yasunari Hirai is 2 for 2 at the State Ocean Swim Series in New Zealand. He won the State Harbour Crossing leg in Auckland, a 2.9 km race from Bayswater to the Viaduct, in a close race over George O’Brien with Phillip Ryan a mere two seconds
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Swimming Smooth For 10 Years…And Beyond Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. This week, Swim Smooth‘s Paul Newsome and Adam Young celebrated the 10-year anniversary of their company, website and original DVDs. They discussed their decade-long journey here. “We’ve dedicated the blog to indulge in a little nostalgia looking back at our beginnings and giving
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Veterinarians occasionally describe medical doctors as those who take care of only one species. Cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz in her TED Talk (see here) reminds us of a similar analogy between pool swimming coaches and open water swimming coaches. While physicians focus on homo sapiens, veterinarians operate on a species-spanning
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are several iconic images that alway come to mind when we think of open water swimming. The first image is the mass open water swim when hundreds of swimmers race together along the seashore or in a lake. Another common image is of a channel swimmer greasing up
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