Deepen Your Knowledge – Broaden Your Dreams – Increase Your Potential
The World Open Water Swimming Federation (WOWSF) was founded in 2024 by Steven Munatones and Antonio Argüelles to provide a broad range of resources supporting the global growth, promotion, and recognition of all forms of open water swimming including exceptional solo and relay swims. WOWSF provides new and significantly expanded next-generation content based on his older WOWSA and 10kswim’s platforms, developed 24 years ago.
Course Description
The course is currently held in English, but it can also be provided in Spanish and French.
This course presents a comprehensive overview of the global community of open water swimming. The course offers lessons to learn about Olympic and professional marathon swimming, stage swimming, ice swimming, channel swimming, and the creation of your own unprecedented aquatic adventures.
This course is built upon the first-hand experiences, observations, coaching, and organizing open water events that span the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania by Steven Munatones (English + Japanese), Antonio Argüelles (Spanish + English + German), and Chris Morgan (English + French + German) from the 1980s to the present.
Take the entire course or only specific chapters that may be more appropriate to you and your goals.
We developed this program to educate and inspire people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds to venture beyond the shores. We want to entertain and encourage you to share the wonderful opportunities and places to swim around the world. We cover all aspects of the sport of open water swimming — from Olympic swimming to channel crossings, from marathon swims to short cold-water swims.
KAATSU Aqua can be performed in various locations:
- competitive swimming pools
- aqua therapy pools
- lakeside
- seaside
KAATSU Aqua can be performed while:
- swimming horizontally in the water, doing butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, combat stroke, or sidestroke while fully submerged
- treading water (e.g., eggbeatering)
- walking, stretching, jogging vertically in the water while not fully submerged
- using swimming or rehabilitation equipment (e.g., hand paddles, fins, kickboards, noodles, floating gear, stretch cords)
- practicing racing starts or (flip) turns
- passing, shooting, blocking (water polo) balls
- performing strength-training or core-strengthening drills (e.g., with Bosu Balls)
The KAATSU AirBands are made of neoprene and are waterproof. However, the controller units for the KAATSU Cycle 2.0, KAATSU C3, KAATSU B1, and KAATSU B2 models are not waterproof and should not be submerged in the water.
KAATSU Aqua can be used to improve/enhance:
- upper body
- lower body
- core
- lower back
