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Coastal challenge workout courtesy of WOWSA in Huntington Beach, California. Some swimmers get seasick in rough water conditions. Some swimmers swallow water when the water gets bumpy. Turbulence, waves, swells and surface chop can wreck havoc on a swimmer, especially when they are not acclimated to difficult conditions. When they practice in a pool and […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 13-year-old Abi Tripp, 17-year-old Nick Streicher, 17-year-old Michelle Sempowski, 17-year-old Natasha Dobson, 18-year-old Harley Bolton, 21-year-old Natalie Lambert, 23-year-old Jenna Lambert, and 53-year-old Vicki Keith have anxiously awaited the day when they could set off on their relay attempt to swim 305 km from west to east lengthwise across
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Photo shows flesh wounds of Steven Robles after a shark encounter along Manhattan Beach in Southern California. We asked, “If a shark is seen during a training swim by a pod of swimmers, what do ocean swimmers normally do? What should they do? What is the best advice? If a pod of swimmers are training
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California: an update to the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming: There were a lot of decades of swimming and open water experience when Marcy MacDonald and Scott Lautman jointly took off on their last leg of the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming last year in June. If there
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Daniel Robinson is an American open water swimmer from Seattle, Washington completed the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming with his second Half Century Club crossing. Robinson started off his Triple Crown campaign with a Manhattan Island Marathon Swim in 2006 and followed it up with a crossing of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Of all the various aquatic national teams around the world, the Hellenic Swimming Federation (Greece) is undeniably focused on its open water swimming discipline. Greece sent 28 athletes to the 2014 LEN European Swimming Championships this week in Berlin, Germany. Of those 28 athletes include, 9 for pool swimming
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On the first day of the 32nd LEN European Swimming Championships, Italy’s Martina Grimaldi finished an uncharacteristic 15 seconds behind the winner, placing 10th in the 10 km race and did not compete in the 5 km or 5 km team pursuit. But the powerful swimmer came back characteristically
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Cyprus Israel Swim Second Attempt Promo from Cyprus Israel Swim on Vimeo. Courtesy of Cyprus Israel Swim in the Mediterranean Sea. If you are going to swim 400 km non-stop, you better get mentally ready and physically confident to be able to swim through the night. This is exactly what Udi Erell, Doron Amosi, Ben
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Isabelle Härle once swam a 5 km swim in 52:54. She was flying in that race. She took it out hard and hung on to win a gold medal in the 5 km team pursuit for her native Germany at the 2013 FINA World Championships. But she had the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Even the world’s fastest and the most fit open water swimmers are proof that open water swimming carries unique risks in the aquatic world. From Rendy Lynn Opdycke (USA) in a rowing basin at the 2005 FINA World Championships in Montreal to Karley Stutzel (Canada) in a rowing basin
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