Swimmer's Daily

  • The Cachoeira do Escorrega, or Escorrega Waterfall, in Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, forms a fun, natural waterslide for anyone willing to hike the 1.5 miles to get there.

  • In the Coast Guard, swimming is a necessary part of service. But, you don’t need to be a strong swimmer to join. The Coast Guard will offer extra swim training to recruits who need it.

  • If you have a foam roll or are considering buying one, but you don’t know how to use it or how it can help, this video is for you. Here is a short routine you can follow to release tight muscles. But first let’s understand what foam rolling does, how it helps and what mistakes to avoid. If you want to skip to the routine go to this minute in the video.

  • Who could be mad about free swimming lessons for kids? Uh…

  • Catch the aQuellé Midmar Mile this year on 9 and 10 February on SABC Sport YouTube!

    In order to handle the vast number of competitors, the swimmers swim out in 5 groups at three-minute intervals in 8 separate mile races over two days. The Saturday events start at 8:15 while the Sunday events start at 8:30.

    The Midmar Mile swimming race is held annually in February at the Midmar Dam, north of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Each year thousands of competitors, from serious international athletes and Olympic medallists to purely recreational swimmers, take part.

    In 2009 the event was recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest open water swimming event.

    Yes, the event requires participants to swim a mile (1.6 km), although in years with poor rainfall, competitors are subject to the infamous Midmar sprint start: a bedlam of bodies sprinting across the muddy lake-shore and through the shallows until the water is deep enough to swim!

    Some facts about the 2019 aQuellé Midmar Mile field:

    • Just over a quarter of the field is between 10 and 19 years of age.
    • The youngest swimmer is six-year-old Rachael Rodd.
    • The oldest swimmer is 86-year-old Mike Arbuthnot, who was one of the founders of the event back in 1974.
    • The company with the highest number of entrants is the South African National Defence Force (SANDF).
    • The school with the highest number of entries is Oranje Meisieskool.

     

    Join us Saturday morning at 8:15 and Sunday at 8:30 here on SABC Sport for all the action!

  • “I look kind of mean and aggressive looking,” Spitz said of the mesmerising photograph above. “Not mean in a personality way, but powerful.”

    For the modern viewer, the lack of goggles, let alone a swimming cap, is one of the most immediately striking aspects of the image; that and the fact that it looks like the nine-time Olympic champion (he also won two golds at the Mexico City 1968 Games) swam with his eyes closed.

    “My eyes were always open, I think it’s an illusion,” he protested with a laugh. As for no goggles, it equalled no problem. “We swam without goggles and we did just fine,” he said with an air of finality. “Since that time I have swum with goggles and I find that my head position is strange, a little different.”

    Read olympic.org

  • In this edition of The Science of Sport, we examine the latest scientific initiative that Canada’s Swimming World Champion Kylie Masse hopes will help with her charge to the podium.

  • Would you dare to jump into the frozen sea for some ice swimming? Have a look at how I did it ;-)
    Check what to do in Helsinki in winter (and why it should be ice swimming)! :D