Seeking Unknown Shores With Ted Erikson

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California.

“…My awareness of motions, internal and external, included: movements in the womb; splashing in a bathtub; paddling in a small reservoir; entering a swimming pool; and making erratic progress across the open waters of lakes, channels, and oceans.

In open waters, external motions influenced progress due to winds, waves, currents, temperature, and denizens of the deep, while internal actions-feelings, thoughts required control to coordinate internal movements from the fingertips to the toes…”

For more information on how Ted Erikson, one of the luminaries of the open water community, views swimming, read his paper entitled Seeking Unknown Shores here.

Ted Erikson is shown above with Farallon Islands Swimming Federation co-founder Vito Bialla.

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