Month: March 2013
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Introducing the Ryan Lochte Office Burn
“Are you ready to get your office burn on? Join Olympic Gold Medalist Ryan Lochte and performance coach David Jack for an exclusive office workout brought to you by Nissan and Men’s Health magazine.”
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Ryan Lochte’s New Love Interest
The Olympic swimmer gets cozy with a famous celeb. Find out who it is … or check out his Twitter account Me and beautiful carmenelectra my biggest crush since childhood. Finally meeting her. #jeah instagr.am/p/WgY8ApBGmC/ — Ryan Lochte (@ryanlochte) March 6, 2013
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Bondi Events – North Bondi Rough Water Ocean Swim
“Bondi Events – One of the events at Bondi in January 2013 was the North Bondi Rough Water Ocean Swim. This video was taken about Bondi Beach on 13/01/2013 and show’s the start of one of the heats.”
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CC photo #433: Ilaria Bianchi on top of the Istanbul 2012 medal podium
Italy’s Ilaria Bianchi gold winner in the women’s 100 meter butterfly at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. I sat beside her mother, which might explain why she’s looking this way. See the result list here
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Tarp Race between Nathan Adrian and Tyler Clary
Confession time – Once upon a time, I gave in and allowed my (teenage) swimmers to try this on the insulating swimming pool cover, after they had been begging for weeks. It was really, really fun, arranging relays and stuff on ‘dryland’ across the pool, right up until one of them went through the (old…
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Behold Brazilian biologists swimming with a giant anaconda
Read Brazil Dispatch Images of a giant anaconda being photographed underwater created a stir this week on Facebook Brazil. After the amazing images were posted and shared, many Facebook users posted comments doubting the authenticity of the photographs. Biologist Daniel De Granville, who took the pictures, assured the G1 network that the images of the…
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RefCam might very well be the next big thing in sports broadcasting
Broadcasters around the world are experimenting with mounting cameras on referees, to get a new and really in-game video angle. Now, in swimming we already have really nice video angles when the professional TV crews roll in … but maybe an idea for when we want to arrange our own (and low-cost) video streaming? See…
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Anacapa – Diving With Sea Lions
“Dive trip to Anacapa I did back in August 2012. Loved the big animals and Kelp Forrest. Shot on the GoPro Hero 2 with a dive housing and Sola 800 Video light for fish. Cut on FCPX with minimal color work.” Anacapa from Chris Aran on Vimeo.
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Heidi the Rabbit swims to relieve her pain
Heidi, a four-year-old continental giant rabbit, has had sessions in a heated pool while wearing a lifejacket, to relieve her from the pain from arthritis in her hips and knees and spondylosis in her neck. Hydrotherapy pool owner Linda Prove admitted she was sceptical when a vet referred the rabbit, but the treatment was “working…
