Author: rokur

Production engineer and certified swim coach. Full-time IT consultant, spare-time swimming aficionado. 2 sons, 2 daughters and a wife. President of the Faroe Islands Aquatics Federation. Likes to run :-)

Guest Post

Mental Toughness Tips for Swimmers

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Guest post by Chelsea Watterston / Premier Pools The term ‘mental toughness’ refers to the resolve not to quit. Specifically, it’s the mental force that helps you stay on track and focus on maintaining perfect form even when your lungs and muscles are about to give up on you. This is what certain sports fans call ‘heart’ or ‘the will to win,’ and is romanticised in fiction as the force that spells the difference between victory and defeat.

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Nature

Bolton Strid: A Stream That Swallows People

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Between Barden Tower and Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire, England, lies one of nature’s most dangerous booby traps. It’s a small innocuous-looking mountain stream, about six feet across, known as Bolton Strid, or simply the Strid. But below the water’s surface is a deep chasm with powerful undercurrents that pulls anybody that falls into it to certain death. It is believed that not a single person who has fallen into the Strid has ever come out of it alive. Not even their bodies. Read Amusing Planet https://youtu.be/mCSUmwP02T8

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WTF

Diver survives being trapped inside cage with great white shark

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A diver escaped unscathed after he was trapped in a cage underwater with a great white shark. Footage of the incident, which took place near Guadalupe Island off the west coast of Mexico, shows the shark lunging for a large chunk of tuna that is tied to a rope from a boat. According to the video, which was published online, a diver was inside a metal cage to capture the act on camera while people on the boat looked on. See the Telegraph https://youtu.be/93WiSq9TIoM

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Organization

Nick Juba ends tenure as National Head Coach of Denmark

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After four very successful years in Danish swimming, Nick Juba will end his tenure as National Head Coach when his contract with the Danish Swimming Federation expires at the end of the year. The World Short-Course will therefore be the Brit’s last Championships in charge of the Danish National Team. The period from 2013 to 2016 has featured an impressive array of successful international results for Danish swimming sport. Denmark has won 26 medals, and secured 46 4th to 8th positions at the major long-course Championships [the Olympic Games, the World Championships and the European Championships], performing at a historically…

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