Year: 2014
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Blue Cross Blue Shield Ad Says Don’t Wait Too Long
I say “you go, big boy !!” :-) BCBS Swimming 30 from Colin Quinn on Vimeo.
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Swim race provides release for 81-year-old athlete
Read azcentral.com Two years of training led Ruby Sherlund to this moment. The 81-year-old gripped the side of the pool with manicured fingers on Sunday as she waited for the race to start. Her wheelchair sat empty on the pool deck at Mesquite Grove Aquatic Center in Chandler. At the sound of the buzzer, she…
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How to do the Double Entry Swimming Drill
Collegiate and Masters Swim Coach Doug Alban, MEd, CSCS explains and Swimmer Kyle Williams demonstrates the double entry swimming drill for freestyle swimmers and triathletes.
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US Olympian Alex Meyer on Vasa swim-specific dryland training
Learn how to strengthen and improve freestyle swimming for triathlon and open water from US Olympian Alex Meyer. He integrates time-efficient power based dryland swim-specific training on Vasa Trainers and Vasa Swim Ergometers. He relies on using the popular swim benches to connect better, more powerfully with the water, to sustain proper high elbow catch…
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Behold thousands of semi-naked men dipping and wrestling to get lucky sticks
Via Nothing To Do With Arbroath Thousands of semi-naked men clad only in brief loincloths took part in the biggest ‘naked festival’ in Japan, the Hadaka Matsuri, in the city of Okayama on Saturday night. http://youtu.be/X8Ec4qrW34s
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Rebecca Adlington: Why are we closing swimming pools?
Read BBC As British swimmers leapt from the London 2012 starting blocks, they should have been doing so in full confidence. But their performance was one of the few lowlights of 2012, with the team securing three medals instead of UK Sport’s target of at least five. “We put a lot of pressure on ourselves,”…
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The head of swimming explains Red Pine’s swim program
See redpinecamp.com For Once You Have Been A Camper, Something Is Here To Stay, Deep In Your Heart Forever, Which Nothing Can Take Away Here are some campers explaining their 50 mile swim
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Lovers Deep, British Submarine Hotel, Puts The Mile High Club To Shame
Read Huffington Post If you have a bottomless bank account and a love that goes deeper than the ocean, a British travel outfit has created a package that allows lovers to make their own tsunami waves in a romantic getaway aboard a luxury submarine. OK, so it’s not yellow. But for adventurous couples who may…
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Swim program helps children with special needs
On Saturday mornings, the swimming pool at the France A. Cordova Recreational Center splashes with the sound of children learning to swim, but that sound also helps parents with children in the Special Needs Aquatic Program breathe a sigh of relief.