Category: Wow
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‘To Row An Ocean’, a film about Livar Nysted
A really nice short film about extreme ocean rower Livar Nysted, the other true (living) sports hero of the Faroe Islands. Livar is an extremely grounded person, in the photo below he is giving free rides to children in a dressed-up rowing boat at the annual “Seaman’s Day” in KlaksvÃk.
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Deep End Dance
A short dance film, written and performed by David Bolger (choreographer and artistic director of CoisCéim Dance Theatre, Dublin) along with his 76-year-old mother, Madge Bolger. The film was shot in the Marian College swimming pool, where Madge worked as a swimming instructor for many years and where she taught David to swim. Deep End…
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Instabeat promises to track your pulse with a swim goggle head-up display
Remember ButterflEYE, the goggles that measure your heart rate while swimming? Well, that award-winning product has developed into Instabeat, a more streamlined and waterproof head-up monitor that displays instant feedback of your heart rate in your swim goggles, while at the same time tracking other parameters like laps swum and breathing pattern. In the video…
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GoPro: Surfing Iceland
Eoin McCarthy Deering wades into the freezing waters of Iceland in search of blissful waves.
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Touch the Wall excerpt: Missy Picks up the Trash
“This scene was described in the NYTimes article “Catching a Champion Swimmer on Film” by Karen Crouse goo.gl/P2P72 At the end of a long day shooting The 2012 Colorado High School State Championships in Fort Collins, Colorado, I was putting away gear in a small room off the pool deck when my partner Grant came came…
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RAF Swimming Championships Poster Step-by-Step
Yup, the RAF, the Royal Air Force. Awesome poster! RAF Swimmer Step-by-Step from Matt Stevenson on Vimeo.
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Snap – Motion To Light Wakeboarding
“The boundaries dividing sport and art are blurred in this collaboration between Red Bull and Snap! Orlando. Mike Dowdy, Adam Errington, and Dallas Friday strap lights to their wakeboards and join with light painter, Patrick Rochon, in an effort to capture the inherent emotion and creativity of athleticism.” Watch this video on YouTube
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Shark scares the crap out of fishing kayaker
So there he was, peacefully fishing from his kayak, when a shark took the bait. NSFW language is understandable. Watch this video on YouTube
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Swim Deep – She Changes The Weather
See Swim Deep on Tumblr and Facebook and Soundcloud SwimDeep from Agile Films on Vimeo.