Swimmer's Daily

  • An excellent stroke to use if you suffer from blocked nasal passages is the breaststroke. While swimming the breaststroke, you will be able to take a breath every stroke through your mouth. This is the key for people who are having nose/breathing restrictions.  This way of breathing while swimming is different than ‘swim breathing’.  Swim breathing is when you exhale from your nose and take a breath in through your mouth.  (Quoted from the movie, The Sopranos, “Fagettaboutit.”)  The reality is, you are a mouth breather-and I am realist. If you try to swim breath, you won’t be swimming for long since water will be going up your nose.  You need solutions, not more problems. Please watch the attached the video about breaststroke.

    Another stroke you can use if you have blocked nasal passages is the sidestroke.  For the sidestroke, your nose and mouth do not have to be in the water. You will be lying on your side. However, if you are not familiar with the coordination of this stroke, please watch the attached video on side stroke. The key to doing the sidestroke properly is to have the ear on the water side in the water AT ALL TIMES. You cannot be lifting your head or ear out of the water. Not even a little. This takes practice. When you lift your head up out of the water this causes the lower half of your body to sink. The sidestroke can be a very restful stroke.

    How to Swim Side-Stroke #swimmingtips

    The backstroke would be another stroke suggestion. However, even though your head is out of the water at all times while doing this stroke, there are still challenges. When you lift your arm out of the water to take a stroke, water dribbles down your entire arm and onto your face. Most likely it will go up your nose. If you are not aware of this factoid, I am here to tell you that you will not be a happy camper when this happens. I tell all my swim students, “When you are pulling your arm out of the water and over your head, you must exhale from your nose to keep the water o-u-t (just like in swim breathing….yes). If you inhale, the water will go up your nose. Guess what? You will start coughing or you will stand up as you are gagging.” This is where I come in. If you are in shallow water (hopefully your teacher, like me, is instructing you there) you will be ok. But   what if you are not? Fill in the blanks……uh,oh….Watch the attached video on backstroke, please.

    I hope you have found these suggestions helpful and useful. I wish you much success in your swimming! And don’t forget to practice, practice, practice.

    Guest post by Barbie Nelis

     

  • Tessa Brown, 7, moves through the water like a mermaid. She twists and turns; she comes up for breath and dives back in. She swims through hoops and grabs diving toys. She spins around and touches the ground.

    She is free, joyous.

    “It feels good,” she says. “I can do a handstand in the water.”

    She figured out how to do that in her friend’s pool.

    “I just did it,” she says.

    See austin360

  • Tom van Dieren is the 20-year-old creator of SEA’SONS swimwear, a line of color-changing swim trunks. He had the idea to create a swim short that could change with water temperature. SEA’SONS swim shorts are treated with heat-sensitive microcapsules that change when you’re in the pool or ocean or when you’re out in the sun to dry.

  • Mark Spitz’s record-breaking run to his seventh gold medal had only one obstacle left: Australia’s Olympic champion Mike Wenden.

    Swimming under the Shadow of Mark Spitz | On the Line

  • The Italian Swimming Federation herewith is communicating with deep regret and disappointment the cancellation of the swimming event Energy for Swim 2018 scheduled in Turin on 20 and 21 December next.

    The “Federation Internationale de Natation” (FINA) declared the event “non approved”, even though it was organized by the Italian Swimming Federation with the support of the City of Torino and already included in the Italian national calendar, threatening sanctions against the participating athletes.

    The Italian Swimming Federation is therefore forced to cancel the event to protect the athletes who, many of them, had already expressed with enthusiasm the desire to compete in a spectacular event designed to increase the interest of swimming, to further enhance the image of the participants and to generate deeper public interest and strong impact for the benefit of the entire swimming movement.

    The Italian Swimming Federation takes this opportunity to thank sincerely the City of Turin for its support and the sponsors who would have contributed to the success of the organization.

    Read federnuoto.it

  • He has just spent the last 157 days to become the first swimmer, to circumnavigate the whole of Great Britain, 1,791 miles, nearly 3000 kilometres, without touching land. Swimming for up to 12 hours a day, and consuming up to 15,000 calories per day.

  • A horse was found in a swimming pool after seeking refuge from the Camp Fire in Paradise, CA.

    When Jeff Hill of paradise, California returned to his evacuated neighborhood during the camp fire, he found a horse in a backyard swimming pool.

    He said in a Facebook post the horse was tangled in the pool cover after escaping the flames.

    He said, the pool cover prevented her from drowning. Hill says he scrambled to unhook the cover and guided the horse up the shallow end steps.

    Resources eventually came to escort the horse from the fire zone.

    See for instance ABC11 and WWLP

  • Singapore is calling! From 15th to 17th November, the final event of the FINA Swimming World Cup 2018 will take place in Singapore. Find out if Wladimir Morozow and Sarah Sjöström can keep their current top positions or if someone else will be crowned as the champion of 2018!

    Current standings at the #SWC18 ahead of the final in Singapoore! | FINA Swimming World Cup 2018

  • Henrico County announced Tuesday that it will build the Henrico Aquatics Center, a 20,000-square-foot indoor swimming facility.

    The facility will have a 25-yard pool with 8 lanes, a warm-water instructional pool with zero-depth entry, a waterslide, and a family spray area. There will also be family-friendly locker rooms, retractable spectator seating and parking. The facility will have means-based membership rates as well as daily rates.

    “The Henrico Aquatics Center will be a game changer for youth and families,” County Manager John Vithoulkas said. “In addition to family swim times, the facility will offer swimming lessons, host practices and meets for our high school swim teams and get plenty of use by Henrico’s youth summer camps and community groups like the Police Athletic League.”

    See WRIC

    https://youtu.be/TK4QC32tdAI