Swimmer's Daily

  • BlueFin Aquatics is an 18 and under USA Swimming Level 2 Club Recognition and 2020 Club Excellence Bronze Medal Swim Program in Las Vegas with pools in both Henderson and Summerlin. Learn more at https://bluefinaquatics.com/

  • Thousands of miles from home, Red Flash sophomore Amelia Laudenbach anxiously nervously awaits updates from the devastating wildfires in Australia.

    https://youtu.be/PGwN3DwqyF0

  • This man may look like he’s just having a cool dip in the water but he’s actually swimming In the frigid waters of the Antarctic. Buzz60’s Mercer Morrison has the story.

    Daredevil Swimmer Becomes First Person To Swim Under Antarctic Ice Sheet Only Wearing Swim Trunks!

  • Open water technique is different from that of pool swimming. Coach Bryan Mineo lays out the foundations to creating a solid swim stroke, breathing and more in this swim tip video.

    Open Water Swim Tips: Technique

  • Thanks to funding from the London Marathon Charitable Trust, Swim England is helping centres across the country create inclusive swimming environments.

    Using a Poolpod makes swimming 'like freedom' for Stephen

  • It was holding on for deer life.

    Dramatic video posted to Twitter shows a Lexington, Kentucky, police officer saving a deer from an in-ground swimming pool.

    “You never know what a day on patrol will bring!⁣” the department wrote on its account.

    See New York Post

  • When former pool swimmer and Olympic gold medalist, Shane Gould, moved from mainland Australia to Bicheno, Tasmania in 2007, she noticed that no one in the local community was swimming in the ocean. In an effort to change that, she initiated a 5k swim from Waubs Bay to Diamond Island and back, which sparked an ocean swimming movement that advocates for the necessity of human engagement with nature and the un-regimented wandering that the vast Great Southern Reef provides.

    Renowned as one of the world’s greatest female swimmers, Gould swam at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and is still the only woman ever to win five individual medals. A year later she retired from competitive swimming and stepped out of the spotlight. She cultivated a unique private family life for 22 years living a sustainable lifestyle on a farm in southwestern Australia where she taught surfing and horse-back riding, while always maintaining a close connection to the coast.

    Gould holds two Masters degrees and recently completed her PhD from Victoria University in Melbourne where she used her position in Australian sporting history to complete an academic study of swimming and how it is represented in Australia. She maintains a strong belief that daily experiences with nature are vital for human development and wellbeing — a belief that is reflected through her robust level of fitness and daily morning swims, be it in summer or winter temperatures.

    #GreatSouthernReef
    www.greatsouthernreef.com

    Shane Gould | Wandering. Olympic swimmer ignites ocean swimming movement in Tasmania

  • SwimOutlet.com, the web’s most popular swim shop, unveiled its eighth annual 2020 Tech Suit Review this week, the most widely-read swim tech suit review in the swimming marketplace. This year’s review features an all-star list of four reviewers including two Olympians, multiple NCAA champions and two world championship medalists. Five brands are featured among the seven suits, and for the first-time short video summaries of each suit have been added to the reviews for customers to watch.

    As part of the Tech Suit Review debut, SwimOutlet.com also announced the launch of its new tech suit category filtering system that enables visitors and customers to search and filter suits by compression and tier: Elite Tech Suits, Mid-Tier Tech Suits, Entry-Level Tech Suits.

    With several of the suits expected to be worn on deck at Tokyo 2020 having been unveiled last year already, this year’s review features new suits from arena and Mizuno while Speedo, TYR have updated reviews to feature videos and new color options. The newly-updated Funkita and Funky Trunks APEX Predator suit will have its review released next month.

    First published in 2013, the annual SwimOutlet Tech Suit Review has become SwimOutlet.com’s most popular product comparison test and is the go-to destination for customers and swimmers around the world to read independent opinions and reviews from experts about new racing suits from the top manufacturers.

    “Every year we add new elements to our Tech Suit Review along with other new site features and functionality to help customers make more informed choices in their tech suit purchases,” said Elaina Cuoci, Director of Merchandising for SwimOutlet. “This year, we’re pleased to have assembled a new all-star crew of reviewers, to highlight the reviewer’s wear-test feedback on video and to complement that with our new filtering interface in the Tech Suit category on the SwimOutlet.com storefront.”

    The independent reviews and product testing were completed over the past month by Olympic Trials/NCAA finalist Julie Stupp (Los Angeles, CA), 2016 Olympian and world silver medalist Cammile Adams (Houston, TX), NCAA Champion from University of Texas John Shebat (Austin, TX) and 4-time NCAA relay champion and 2016 Olympian Dylan Carter (La Jolla, CA).

    The reviewers each received product briefings on the new suits, met with product experts from the brands and then tested them over multiple sessions assessing the suits for size/fit, material/construction and overall performance in the water.

    The product highlights from the 2020 Tech Suit Review include:

    • Two new suits from arena, the compressive Carbon Core FX, the successor to the popular Flex suit, and the more flexible Carbon Glide, available in February.

    • The latest iteration of the Mizuno GX-Sonic line with the debut of the GX-Sonic V ST & MR for both men and women, available in early February.

    • An update to the two top-of the line performance suits launched by legendary swim brand Speedo last year – the maximum compression LZR Pure Intent, worn by Caeleb Dressel, and the more flexible LZR Pure Valor.

    • The TYR Venzo in the X-Ray colorway, the suit of choice for the world’s most dominant female swimmer, Katie Ledecky.

    • Plus a review of the updated version of the APEX Predator suit from Australian-based Funkita + Funky Trunks, which will be published in February.

    Along with the 2020 Tech Suit Review text and videos, SwimOutlet.com encourages swimmers to also review product and brand information, sizing charts, customer comments and feedback from peers and coaches when making their purchasing decision.

    Read the 2020 Tech Suit Review