Month: August 2019
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How To Do a Tumble Turn | Top Tips with Olympic Swimmer Stephanie Rice
Here is another detailed video of my step-by-step guide to mastering the tumble turn, or as some people call it, a flip turn. I’ve been teaching these for years and have noticed that some clients find it pretty overwhelming at the start, which is why I have broken this video up into stages. Don’t move…
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Air Force Pararescue Puts Me Through His Swimming Routine
Today I trained with Mike who has over 21 years of experience as a Pararescue Swimming Instructor. https://youtu.be/t-E0WXQ0IrU
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There’s now a surreal 200-ft high, glass-bottom pool in downtown Vancouver
The nearly-completed, 30-story ARC Vancouver tower, developed by Concord Pacific, features a glass-bottom pool on the 20th floor — the bottom of the arching portion of the structure — that allows swimmers to look 200 ft down onto the public plaza below. See DailyHive and Concord Pacific
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Anger Over Resignation of Swim Coach
Hey, hey, ho, ho Coach Beth should not go. Balloons, a petition, and signs of support, all for Beth Cholish. Families gathered outside the greater Scranton YMCA, protesting the former swimming coach’s resignation. “It just feels like Coach Beth was treated so unfairly that she could not even exist so she had to resign,†John…
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Agitos Foundation | Road to Lima – Para athletics and Para swimming
Training camps and workshops for Para athletics and Para swimming technical officials, coaches and athletes. The purpose of the Road to Lima project is to increase the number of participants and countries represented in the Lima 2019 Parapan American Games.
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Olympic gold medallist, Jodie Henry on the AIS
Three times Olympic gold medallist, swimmer, Jodie Henry visited the AIS in May 2019 to speak about the important role the AIS has in supporting athletes across Australia. Jodie also touched on how the AIS model has changed since her time as an athlete based at the AIS, in Canberra.
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Is it safe to swim in the Delaware or Schuylkill? What about Devil’s Pool? It’s complicated.
The federal Clean Water Act of 1972 regulated pollutants in U.S. waterways with the laudable goal of making then-filthy major city rivers “fishable and swimmable†by 1985. Certainly, not all waterways are swimmable even in 2019, but they are much cleaner. Some portions of the Delaware are swimmable based on bacteria levels. Other portions are…
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Neanderthals and Ancient Humans Suffered from Swimmer’s Ear: Study
Exostoses of the ear canal — more commonly called swimmer’s ear — were surprisingly common in Neanderthals, according to new research by scientists from the United States and France. […] In the study, Washington University researcher Erik Trinkaus and his colleagues from the University of Bordeaux and CNRS examined well-preserved ear canals in the remains…