Month: January 2012
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Epic 6 pass trick shot in a swimming pool
They are a youth group called The Living Room, and they obviously know that they are good! Even plan to build wells in Mozambique with www.hungerstrike.org, if this YouTube video of theirs earns any money.
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Crazy dude swimming in a septic tank
Yeah, that’s the power I hold, to be able to go straight from ‘the good life’ in Southern California, to some Brazilian guy taking a bog bath in a septic tank.
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“Backyard Oasis”, the Palm Springs Art Museum swimming pool exhibition
This Saturday January 21st, 2012, Palm Springs Art Museum will open a new exhibition called “Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982“, celebrating the iconic backyard swimming pool, forever associated with the Southern California good life. “The photographs project a happier, supposedly better way of life,†says Daniell Cornell, the museum’s deputy…
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Swimming-Japan unveils new Kitajima for London Olympics
Called the Kosuke Kitajima Mark II, it … Naah, kidding, his name is Akihiro Yamaguchi, and he’s 17 year old. World junior champion from Lima 2011 in the 200 breaststroke, predicted to make a big splash at this year’s London Olympics, with even bolder targets himself, saying “I plan to win gold”. Even Kitajima’s mentor…
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Flying Devil Rays
♪ You will get the hang of it, I know it. You will get better and better, I know it. If you keep practicing, you can get better and better as you do it. ♫ (Believe in yourself)
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CC photo #16: Pál’s 1500 silver medal from Budapest 2010
This is what we’re fighting for. This and national pride in general :-)
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Nathan Adrian scorches the 2012 Austin Grand Prix 50 free
1st in 21.94 (long course meters), second man Frédérick Bousquet in 22.05, and Anthony Ervin (!) number three in 22.27. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine
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Phelps debuts the Speedo Fastskin3 system at the Austin Grand Prix
He won the 100 butterfly in 52.41 and the 400 IM in a for this time of the season impressive time of 4:16.95. Sure helps to see someone swim fast in that strange-looking ‘racing system’. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine here and here Here’s Michael Phelps talking to the media after 1st night’s 100 fly And here’s…
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The scariest waves ever surfed
In August of 2011, the French Navy threatened to arrest anyone attempting to go in the water off the coast of Teahup’o, Tahiti. Still, absolutely fantastic pictures, shot on August 27th by cinematographer Chris Bryan using a phantom camera. More Surfing Videos Source Mpora via thisiscolossal.com via Buzzfeed