Category: Winter Swimming
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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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Bronx Polar Bears brace for icy Valentine’s Day plunge into Long Island Sound
Read NY Daily News An 80% chance of snow and freezing 13-mile-per-hour winds won’t deter Bronx Polar Bears Saturday from plunging into Long Island Sound’s chilly depths for a Valentine’s swim. Dozens of swimmers are expected to eschew gloomy forecasts in order to don bathing suits for a dive just off Orchard Beach for the…
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Polar Bear Swim at Dartmouth’s 2014 Winter Carnival
“Jump into the icy waters of Occom Pond for the Polar Bear Swim, one of the many events taking place during Dartmouth’s 2014 Winter Carnival.”
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Swedish Open Winter Swimming Championships 2014 Coming Up
See darkandcold.com A Winter Swimming Competition is being organized on Saturday 8 February, for the third consecutive year in SkellefteÃ¥ [Northern Sweden]. This is the Swedish Open Championship. Last year we had approximately 120 winter swimmers and this year “The Happy Friends of Dark and Cold†hope to double that figure. Here is a nice…