Sculling is a classic drill that pro swimmers perform almost on a daily basis to increase the feel for the water and therefor stroke efficiency. SwimGym founder and Olympic medalist Johan Kenkhuis breaks down this great drill and how you can use this in your daily training routine. Go to swimgym.com to watch the different sculling techniques and positions and start practicing today!
https://youtu.be/MD4Iya-0dVI
Eight-year-old Dulce is afraid of the water. But she has to get over it, her mother insists—it’s time to learn how to swim. In their coastal Colombian village, this is an essential rite of passage; Iscuandé is dependent on harvesting piangua shellfish, a type of edible mussel that’s a delicacy in nearby Ecuador. The village’s cockle harvest has traditionally been the province of women, and it’s time for Dulce to contribute. Besides, says her mother, what will happen to Dulce when the ever-rising seawater drowns the village? Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/ind…
100.000 Euros are up for grabs
LEN is delighted to announce the start of the second season of the LEN Swimming Cup with a new format and 100.000 Euros in overall prize money. The first leg is due this weekend in Luxembourg, followed by other long-established meets, the Swim Cup in Eindhoven, the Open de France and the Sette Colli in Rome.
After the initial season, the LEN Swimming Cup is back with a new format in which 100.000 euros will be distributed among the best performers, beyond the prize money offered by the respective hosts of the four meets.
“We are happy and proud to offer even more for our wonderful athletes in the LEN Swimming Cup, which are going to be among the highlights of the season, leading to the Olympic Games†LEN President Paolo Barelli said. “We involve well-established competitions to our series, this is the best way to serve our athletes and federations and to further promote the top discipline of European Aquatics.â€
The top 5 European overall performers among the men and women will be entitled to receive prize money from the pot of 100.000 Euro – the final rankings will be based on the two single best swims (by FINA points), each achieved in different legs (so swimmers will be eligible to receive prize money if they take part at least in two legs – and only the top two results will count). The male and female winner shall earn €16.000 respectively.
The first leg in Luxembourg will already feature some household names of the sport. France’s Olympic champion sprinter Florent Manaudou will continue his comeback campaign, fellow Olympic gold medallist Jeremy Stravius, open water world champion Aurelie Muller – who seeks Olympic success in the pool after she failed to qualify in the marathon – and Charlotte Bonnet are the leading members of the French delegation.
Freshly crowned LEN Award winner Katinka Hosszu is back to the Euro Meet once again, the 9-time world champion Hungarian is targeting more Olympic golds after her treble in Rio and this event is traditional stop in her preparations.
World-record holder butterflier Andriy Govorov and European champion and short-course world champion 1500m-man Mykhailo Romanchuk from Ukraine are also ready to rock in Luxembourg, just like Italy’s two most talented age-groupers, JWR-holder Nicolo Martinenghi and junior world champion Thomas Ceccon.
Altogether 785 athletes from 29 nations have been entered to the event, a giant field for the 22nd edition of the first grand swimming meet of the year.
LEN Swimming Cup 2020
Leg 1 – Euromeet, Luxembourg (24-26 January)
Leg 2 – Swim Cup Eindhoven (9-12 April)
Leg 3 – Open de France, Paris/Chartres (TBD)
Leg 4 – Sette Colli, Rome (26-28 June)
Press release from LEN
Imagine starting your academic year by taking a swim to school? Well, it’s become a norm for some school children in Mumias East, Kakamega County. This, after the makeshift bridge they were using was washed away in December by floods, forcing them to swim across river Lusumu to get to school. The school children, parents and teachers now want a lasting solution from the government.
Inner Harbor Homes highlights a foreclosed home in Baltimore with an unusual feature for an urban townhouse: a deep indoor swimming pool.
The home is hardly large enough to contain a hot tub, yet now accomodates a 15-ft pool on the ground floor. As this video makes clear, the interior is extensively modified around the pool: the kitchen is gone to make way for the pool itself and the floors above opened to create a multi-storey open space. There is a diving (?) platform up there. There’s a disquieting quality to the place. It maybe now exists only to serve the desires of the pool, which I propose we file under Euclid.
Someone spent a lot of money on this place, and whatever they were doing didn’t work out. The house, modernized but weird and blatantly dangerous, is on offer for $139k.
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Film for the award-winning campaign, Swimming in it. Demonstrating how plastic in the ocean affects marine life and how young people using STEM can help combat the problem.
More than 180 swimmers from 12 clubs across Southwestern Ontario competed in the 3rd Annual Special Olympics London Gliders Swim Meet Sunday at the Aquatic Centre in London.
A skydiving trip takes an unexpected turn when extreme turbulence sends a plane carrying a group of friends towards the Earth. The friends must jump from the doomed plane into the abyss of a cloudy sky and try to land in a safe place. However one of the men quickly realises he is in very real danger when he lands the middle of the ocean with no sign of land, or rescue.
https://youtu.be/KcCVDrnItmg
