Swimmer's Daily

  • We caught up with World Champion James Guy ahead of next months EISM inc. the British Swimming Championships to talk about 2018 and his goal for the season ahead.

  • Remember those Hektometer freediving goggles we reported on earlier this month?

    Well, the crowdfunding campaign for those goggles launched last week, and it reached its funding goal within the first two hours that the IndieGogo page was live.

    Over the past few months, the goggles have been tested at the Y-40 pool, and although initially it was thought they were good to 40m/130ft, they have proved reliable to 100m/330ft. Freediver Davide Carrera has tested them in competition, with multiple dives to 90m/300ft.

    According to Hektometer’s Klaus Schuwerk:

    “We reached our goal in less than 2 hours and right now we are over 300% thanks to many enthusiastic supporters from the freediving community, especially those who have tried the goggles at Y-40.”

    The Hektometer goggles are able to combine the clarity and visibility of a mask with the comfort and performance of fluid googles.

    See Deeper Blue and Indiegogo

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  • Strongman Swimming documents Ross Edgley’s incredible attempt to swim 40km with a 100lb tree tied to him between the Caribbean islands of St Lucia and Martinique.

    Training the mind to undertake a challenge such as this is just as important as ensuring your body is in peak condition. So Ross visited the Royal Marines in their Lympstone, England, headquarters to learn from elite troops about how he could improve and maintain his mental wellbeing while swimming for hours at once.

  • Leadership of America’s governing body over US swimming has, for decades, condoned a culture of sexual abuse — even as scores of coaches were arrested for their fiendish acts against kids, according to a bombshell report.

    The Orange County Register, citing police reports, court document and internal USA Swimming communications, showed how the governing body has done little to stop rampant sexual abuse.

    These horrific acts were so widespread and well-known that in 2005, then-USA Swimming president Ron Van Pool delivered a stunning speech, accusing his own organization of being “frightfully behind the curve” in addressing abuse cases.

    But in the years following Van Pool’s call to arms to fight sex abuse, nothing was done.

    Read New York Post

    https://youtu.be/GqmzMtp6iyw

    https://youtu.be/cVCaFcF4ISw

  • kids wear your sunscreen.

  • Mysteries at the Museum host Don Widman visits the International Swimming Hall of Fame to revel one of the most significant events in cultural history.

  • Kim Chambers is one of the world’s best marathon swimmers and is the sixth person to complete the “Oceans Seven”, the ultimate open water swimming challenge.

  • The Tsunami Swim Team competed against the Fitness Ocean Swim Team in a friendly swim meet to build and strengthen friendships between Japanese and American children. Maddox Prindle said he learned about self-improvement from his fellow swimmers.