Swimmer's Daily

Month: March 2011

  • The Race Club on sustaining speed with a strong kick

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    Gary Hall Senior explains the law of inertia here, which is the tendency of an object in motion to remain in motion, or an object at rest to remain at rest, which is one of the reasons that we need a strong kick. Great drills too. Via www.theraceclub.net.

  • British Gas Swimming Championships 2011 Roundup

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    British Gas Swimming Championships 2011 – a round up of all the action from the Championships at the Manchester Aquatics Centre.

  • Hetland vs Dale Oen: It’s a tie!

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    At the Norwegian short course championships today, Aleksander Hetland and Alexander Dale Oen met in the 50 breaststroke, Hetland having won bronze in the Dubai 2010 World short course championships, and Dale Oen being the European champion in the 100 long course breaststroke. During prelims Hetland was faster, also leading the first half of the…

  • Bousquet and Bernard dip under 22

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    Frédérick Bousquet and Alain Bernard posted the first sub-22 second 50 freestyles of the year today at the Championnats de France de Natatation, Bousquet swimming 21.82 and Bernard 21.98. Camille Muffat set a second-best this year in the 100 free, clocking 53.97 where Heemskerk posted 53.70 earlier this month. Denmark’s Rikke Møller Pedersen won the…

  • Cryosauna, a high-tech alternative to ice baths

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    Athletes are increasingly using ice baths to stimulate recovery, as seen in this ClubWolverine video with Mike Bottom about swimming recovery. A more high-tech alternative is the cryosauna, where liquid nitrogen is turned into freezing gas, plunging the temperature below -200 degrees Fahrenheit (-128 degrees Celcius), for instance used by ‘Mad Scientist’ Alberto Salazar. The…

  • How about breathing liquid air?

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    Arnold Lande, a retired American heart and lung surgeon, has patented a scuba suit that would allow a human to breathe “liquid air”, a special solution that has been highly enriched with oxygen molecules. “The first trick you would have to learn is overcoming the gag reflex,” explains Lande, a 79-year-old inventor from St Louis,…

  • Swim to Empower: Teaching Bahamians How to Float

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    Eleuthera, Bahamas is named after the Greek word for “freedom,” Eleuthera is 110 miles long and just a mile at its widest. To the east is the occasionally wild Atlantic, to the west a shallow, usually calm Caribbean Sea. The waters on both sides are ideal for swimming. Unless, of course, you don’t know how…

  • Autistic kids crave water

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    A good read here 0n diversityinaquatics.com … Water is a magnet for all children.  It is fun.  It is soothing.  Water is the ultimate, non-threatening hug.  As an adult, what is your reaction when you sink into a hot bath?  Or sip a cool glass of water on a hot day?   Aaaaaahhhhhhh.  Exactly.  Now…

  • Agnel smokes the 400 free

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    18-year-old Yannick Agnel demolished the French record in 400 freestyle, at the Championnat de France today, swimming 3:43.85 where his French record from the European Championships where he beat Biedermann last summer was 3:46.17. Rouault followed him up until the last 100, from when Agnel took more than 3 seconds out of him, winning silver…