Swimmer's Daily

  • Here is another detailed video of my step-by-step guide to mastering the tumble turn, or as some people call it, a flip turn.

    I’ve been teaching these for years and have noticed that some clients find it pretty overwhelming at the start, which is why I have broken this video up into stages.

    Don’t move to the next stage until you have comfortably mastered the previous stage. Also, don’t be concerned if you get some water up your nose one the first few tries…that’s normal. Just make sure you are blocking your nose or blowing air out your nose as your turn.

    So try out these tips and I’m sure it will really help you improve or learn the tumble turn.

  • August 3, 2019

  • Today I trained with Mike who has over 21 years of experience as a Pararescue Swimming Instructor.

    https://youtu.be/t-E0WXQ0IrU

  • The nearly-completed, 30-story ARC Vancouver tower, developed by Concord Pacific, features a glass-bottom pool on the 20th floor — the bottom of the arching portion of the structure — that allows swimmers to look 200 ft down onto the public plaza below.

    See DailyHive and Concord Pacific

     

  • Hey, hey, ho, ho Coach Beth should not go.

    Balloons, a petition, and signs of support, all for Beth Cholish.

    Families gathered outside the greater Scranton YMCA, protesting the former swimming coach’s resignation.

    “It just feels like Coach Beth was treated so unfairly that she could not even exist so she had to resign,” John Swarts of Greenfield Township said.

    See WNEP

  • Training camps and workshops for Para athletics and Para swimming technical officials, coaches and athletes. The purpose of the Road to Lima project is to increase the number of participants and countries represented in the Lima 2019 Parapan American Games.

  • Three times Olympic gold medallist, swimmer, Jodie Henry visited the AIS in May 2019 to speak about the important role the AIS has in supporting athletes across Australia. Jodie also touched on how the AIS model has changed since her time as an athlete based at the AIS, in Canberra.

  • The federal Clean Water Act of 1972 regulated pollutants in U.S. waterways with the laudable goal of making then-filthy major city rivers “fishable and swimmable” by 1985. Certainly, not all waterways are swimmable even in 2019, but they are much cleaner. Some portions of the Delaware are swimmable based on bacteria levels.

    Other portions are not, including where the teens gathered near the defunct Pier 18, also known as Graffiti Pier. Their beach is a spit of dirt amid a concrete harbor that housed rail-yard operations in Kensington’s industrial heyday.

    Pollution is far from the only issue. There are good reasons that you rarely see anyone swimming in the urban Delaware. Drowning and being struck by boats and drifting debris are real risks. The city has an ordinance against swimming in areas not designated as safe based on suitable access, currents, river traffic, and other factors. The river is tidal from the Delaware Bay up through Trenton, so currents can be swift and strong.

    Read The Philadelphia Inquirer

    Photo by rik-shaw 黄包车

     

  • Exostoses of the ear canal — more commonly called swimmer’s ear — were surprisingly common in Neanderthals, according to new research by scientists from the United States and France. […]

    In the study, Washington University researcher Erik Trinkaus and his colleagues from the University of Bordeaux and CNRS examined well-preserved ear canals in the remains of 77 ancient humans, including Neanderthals, archaic and early modern humans.

    While the samples of archaic (20%) and early modern humans (Middle Paleolithic – 25%, Early/Mid Upper Paleolithic – 20.8%, Late Upper Paleolithic – 9.5%) exhibited similar frequencies of exostoses to modern human samples, the condition was exceptionally common (56.5%) in Neanderthals.

    Approximately half of the 23 Neanderthal remains examined exhibited mild to severe exostoses.

    “The most likely explanation for this pattern is that these Neanderthals spent a significant amount of time collecting resources in aquatic settings,” Dr. Trinkaus and co-authors said.

    Read Sci News

    neanderthal photo
    Photo by Allan Henderson