Month: July 2014
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Nathan Adrian | Freestyle Stroke – Swim Technique
Watch the perfect freestyle stroke technique in action via our helpful how-to video, which includes a demonstration by Olympic freestyle sprint champion, Nathan Adrian, along with tips from our elite swim coach to help you improve your freestyle arm pull, hand entry and catch position. http://youtu.be/SONx52cyltI
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Siblings swim English Channel for Alzheimer’s awareness
Devin, Dustin and Danielle Wahl could be the first trio of siblings to swim across the English Channel at the same time. They’re doing it in part to raise awareness about Alzheimer’s, a disease that affected their loved ones. Norah O’Donnell reports.
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Shark tries to steal kayak fisherman’s catch
Warning, a bit of bad language, as can happen when a shark jumps on you. It’s a routine kayak fishing adventure for Isaac Brumaghim, until Chompy the shark shows up.
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Fishing For Piranhas – The Easy Way
Brazilian girl fishing for piranha using a piece of meat http://youtu.be/DyEaX71_XrQ
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Would you let your kids swim in the Dan river?
It sounds like something out of a third grader’s standardized testing: “If 39,000 tons of coal ash spilled into the river and they got 3,000 tons out, how many tons are left in the river?” We won’t do the math for you, but… well hey, why not? 36,000 tons. That’s how much coal ash (at…
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SwimmingWorld switching to WordPress
SwimmingWorld Magazine just announced that they will be switching to this site (at the moment in Beta), which is powered by WordPress like the one you are reading right now. So that would be two of my favorite sites switching to WordPress these past few days – The New Yorker (which had us mentioned back in…
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Behold a young Jason Statham competing at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
You might know him from such films as Snatch, The Italian Job and The Expendables, but back in the day, Jason Statham was a member of Britain’s National Diving Squad for twelve years. Here below competing for England at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, and being treated rather harshly (but maybe fairly, what do I know) by the…
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The Russian Swing
Gavin Peacock dives, flips, and completes an epic catch while being launched from a lakeside Russian Swing in Toronto, Canada.
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Swimmer’s dream fulfilled with help from jelly babies
A medical student who swam 21 miles across the Channel has told how jelly babies and a determination to raise money for charity got her through the gruelling challenge. Marisa Schubert spent 14 hours and 40 minutes making her way through the busy shipping lane between England and France. The 21-year-old, of Headington, managed to…