Month: August 2014
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The Ripple Effect – How a Small Oz Town Produced 5 Surf Champions
Five thousand. That’s the population of Coolangatta, Australia. Yet someway, somehow, this tiny town has produced more surfing world champions than anywhere else in the world. A lot of that has to do with the local wave. You may have heard of it – it’s called the Superbank. But in The Ripple Effect, we learn…
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High Diving comes to Russia
Following the remarkable introduction of High Diving in the FINA World Championships programme and crowning moment of the first-ever World champions in Barcelona (ESP) last year, Kazan (RUS) will host the inaugural edition of the FINA High Diving World Cup on August 8-10, 2014. Two events are on the programme: a men’s competition in three…
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LEN moves 2015 Short Course Europeans to December
With a majority decision, through mail vote, the LEN Bureau approved to move the next European Short Course Swimming Championships from January to December 2015. Earlier this year LEN allocated the next edition of the European Short Course Swimming Championships to the city of Netanya (ISR) – the dates of the event were set at…
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Dolphins surfing off Esperance, Western Australia
Dave filmed this amazing aerial vision with his quadcopter off Esperance, along south Western Australia’s beautiful coastline. Huge pods of bottlenose dolphins cruise the shoreline and surf the crystal clear turquoise waves.
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“Girl Water Diviner” – original 1954 reel from British Pathe
Catherine Bent is a female water diviner whose body is highly sensitive to nature and physical elements. She identifies spots where water and underground streams can be tapped into, using a bizarre zombie-like walk which throws her body around so violently that “sometimes she falls flat on her face”.
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Your Body on Brain Doping: Red Bull team push through fatigue with neurostimulation
In the late 1990s, South African researcher Tim Noakes proposed that a “central governor” in the brain prevents us from getting too dangerously close to the absolute limits of our bodies. Physiologists have been arguing ever since about the brain’s role in determining truly “maximal” effort, but the bottom line is clear: “We know there’s…
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Amanda Beard talks Rio 2016, more in Springfield
Seven-time Olympic swimming medalist Amanda Beard was in Springfield on Friday, Aug. 1, 2014, putting on a clinic at the west-side YMCA. She’s continuing her professional career, aiming at a spot in the 2016 Rio games, 20 years after her first Olympic medals in Atlanta.
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South African Arctic Swimmer Planning to break Extreme record between Russia & USA
As South Africa anticipates great success in the pool at the Commonwealth games, one man from Cape Town is looking to take swimming to another level. Ryan Stramrood won’t win a medal for his endeavours, but that won’t lessen his satisfaction if he completes his goal, as our reporter Dan Williams found out.
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Eurosport – Berlin 2014 European Swimming Championships Trailer
See also Eurosport http://vimeo.com/102315353