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 :-)

Competition

Team GB announce Olympic swimmers

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Great Britain’s swimming team for the 2016 Olympics was announced on Thursday (21st April), with head coach Bill Furniss saying a revamped qualification process will help his swimmers achieve success at Rio 2016. https://youtu.be/UCVz3qaDTRg

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Science

Swimming lessons help with childrens’ maths results, study finds

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Swimming classes help middle class children boost their maths grades, a study by UCL has revealed. Children who take part in organised sports and physical activitieswere one and a half times more likely to reach higher than expected grades in their maths test at the end primary school at age 11, it found. Researchers claimed that the sense of achievement children experience while engaging in activities like swimming and dancing motivates them to do well in their academic studies as well. The study, which was carried out by NatCen Social Research, Newcastle University and ASK Research, analysed information on more than 6,400 English children born…

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Para Swimming

Daniel Dias wins 2016 Laureus Sports Award

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Brazilian swimmer Daniel Dias won the 2016 Laureus World Sports Award for Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability on Monday (18 April) during a glittering ceremony in Berlin, Germany. Allianz, a world-wide partner of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), was an official partner of the 2016 Laureus World Sports Awards. Dias won seven gold medals and a silver during the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Great Britain. Those achievements added to the 10 Paralympic gold medals he has collected, making him one of Brazil’s big hopes for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games in September. It is the…

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Fun

SwimJitsu – A Fun Introduction to Swimming

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Creating a unique and fun introduction to launch newcomers to swimming, USA Swimming has developed SwimJitsu – a new grow-the-sport program that combines swimming, inflatable obstacles and cannonballs. SwimJitsu is an in-water obstacle course that includes a series of entry-level swimming skills stages and 10 entertaining tasks. Participants become “swimjas” (a combination of swimming and ninja) by using traits such as wisdom, speed and agility. See Reach for the Wall https://youtu.be/ahNQ5koTASM

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Freediving

Freediving Nemo 33

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Freedivers Solenn Launay, Nancy Gibson and Stig Pryds recently came on a trip with http://www.aquacityfreediving.com/ to Nemo33, a 33 meter deep pool in Brussels, to play in the deep end. https://youtu.be/R01aGbw5MV8

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