Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California.
The International Winter Swimming Association announced the inaugural Winter Swimming World Cup Series for the 2015 – 2016 season. The first five World Cup stages will take place in the following countries:
*The Jelgavas Roni Cup on November 7th in Jelgava, Latvia (visit here)
*The Big Chill Swim on 6th – 7th in February 2016 in Windermere, United Kingdom.
*The Scandinavian Winter Swimming Championships on February 2016 13th – 14th in Skellefteå, Sweden
*The 7th Pirita Open on 27th February 2016 held in Tallinn, Estonia
*The 10th Winter Swimming World Championships are held in 10th – 12th March 2016 in Tyumen, Russia
Depending on the location of the event and weather conditions, swim distances will range from 25m, 50m, 100m, 200m to 450m. The 1000m and 1 km participants usually comply with IWSA Water Temperature Classification. These are also the specialized words of the cold water swimming community:
*1-10-1
*acclimatization
*afterdrop
*ambient air temperature
*Avantouinti
*blood Pressure check
*body heat loss
*chain saw
*circum-rescue collapse
*climatic zoning
*cold member
*cold shock response
*confined water swim
*controlled entry
*cold shock response
*core
*core body temperature
*core cooling
*distressed swimmer
*dry suit
*ECG
*Ephiphany swimming
*Furious Fifties
*high-altitude ice swim
*high-altitude ice mile
*high-altitude swimming
*hot tub
*hot wet towel recovery
*hypothermia
*ice hold swimming
*Ice Ironman
*ice kilometer
*ice member
*ice mile
*ice pool swim
*ice swimming
*International Ice Swimming Association
*International Winter Swimming Association
*inspiratory gasp reflex
*IWSA Water Temperature Classification
*lido swim
*nice mile
*open water temperature perception scale
*pitchfork
*post rescue collapse
*pulse oximeter
*recovery area
*rewarming
*Roaring Forties
*rough handling
*safety diver
*second
*Shrieking Sixties
*spotter
*stroke rate
*Table of Climatic Zones
*Time and Motion Rule
*tow float
*warm member
*watcher
*water chill factor
*water pump
*wet start
*winter swimming
*Winter Swimming World Cup
Photo shows Lewis Pugh getting ready for colder temperatures.
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