Year: 2017
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Swim Junky Challenge – Verde Island Passage
Using footage from an early shoot down in Lobo Batangas, Philippines. This video was all about practicing color correction. Trying to make a uniform look. Getting colors realistic.
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Should you quit swimming? Asking the right question
Swimmers often write to me asking if they should quit swimming. They don’t enjoy swimming as much as they used to or they have stoped improving which makes them hate swimming. I would like to tell you a story about the greatest breaststroker of our time, Adam Peaty. In an interview he said that one…
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‘It Makes Me Feel Normal’: UK Invictus Swimmer On Power Of Sport
A swimmer from the UK Invictus Games team has spoken to Forces Network about the power of sport. It comes with the start of this year’s competition less than three weeks away. The last few training sessions are now taking place, with the Team UK swimmers meeting in Catterick for their final preparations. One of the athletes, Emma Pack, told Cath…
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Police raid home of Brazil Olympics chief over Rio 2016 vote buying
Brazilian investigators said on Tuesday that politicians and the head of the national Olympic committee arranged a $2 million bribe to bring the 2016 games to Rio de Janeiro, despite the city having the worst conditions to host the event. Police in Rio raided the home of Brazil’s Olympics chief, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, after prosecutors…
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Dog video shows the cutest canines swimming in Toronto pool
Dogs are allowed to join Greenwood Park’s last swim of the season. The outdoor Leslieville pool allowed the fury friends to join the fun on its last day of operation on Sunday.
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Rescue swimmer recalls seeing 2 children in Tupperware container
First responders from across the country came to Houston to help rescue people from rising floodwaters, including a coast guard team from Massachusetts involved in one of the most dramatic stories from the storm. One rescue swimmer said he’ll never forget a woman giving him a Tupperware container. He thought it was luggage and told…
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Would Bill English really swim in the Oreti River now?
The National leader says he would swim in the river, one of the South Island’s largest. Ian Telfer went to check it out.