Courtesy of Ram Barkai, @FreedomSwimCapeTown,
Dear Freedom Swimmers,
Just to keep you updated with regard the Freedom Swim 2020:
We are still working towards setting our new date and format. We are in discussions with our sponsors. We look forward to sharing our new format with you when dates are finalised.
All swimmers who paid their entry fees to the Freedom Swim bank account have been refunded their full entry fees by me.
Please, if you haven’t sent your banking details – please do so.
All swimmers who paid via Big Bay Events will only be refunded 38% of their entry fees at this stage. These refunds will be paid shortly. We apologise for this difference in refunds but we have only managed to receive 38% of the full fees from Big Bay Events. We are working on it…
We hope you are all finding a way to keep swimming or at least keeping fit.
Be safe, stay at home and…
See you in all in the water
Ram Barkai
More information about stinger suit :
– yes Sir i learned i learned from my Scilian Channel 1995 , For that i just prepare the stinger suit for my swimming Sfax -Djerba but i didn’t use it during all my swim, it was kept on boat in case to throw it to me in case there would be Jelly fishes,
For my luck jelly fishes was not present on my water route So I didn’t use at all stinger suit , media team reported after taking some views of my swim and during their coming back to their port points they observed each time that many jelly fishes came to cover the sea behind me
Aren’t we all desperate for a SWIM challenge?
It’s here – The Freedom Swim Lockdown Challenge.
In order to celebrate South Africa’s Freedom Day.
It is FREE and ANYONE can take part- with or without a swimming pool.
The First 100 Successful finishers will receive the official Freedom swim swimming Caps.
It’s an international challenge!
The Challenge will take place on Monday the 27th April.
You can swim in your pool if you are lucky to have one, laps or bungee cord, else, be creative and improvise [with some water]
The 3 categories of the Challenge, in the same spirit of the Robben Island Freedom Swim:
1. SOLO – 1 hour swim.
2. HALF – 30 minutes swim.
3. RELAY – 1 Hour swim, 2-4 Swimmers.
Challenge Rules:
Feed break of 1 minute is allowed after every 10 minutes.
Relay – Swim Interval must be a minimum of 5 minutes
To validate your challenge:
1. Post a 10 sec video with a few words on how you completed the challenge on Freedom Swim’s Facebook page or post on your page and share on ours.
2. Instagram, Tag us on your Instagram story @freedom_swim and use #FS2020lockdownchallenge and #freedomswim.
The first 100 validated swims will receive a Freedom Swim Swimming Cap.
Have Fun, Stay Safe!