Swimmer's Daily

  • In the last few years, shark hysteria has reached all-time highs.There have been many different proposed solutions: sharks on Twitter, declaring open season for shark fishermen, netting beaches, and of course, hanging ragged chunks of meat off giant hooks, baiting them in, then killing them and dragging them out to sea. One solution stand out above the rest. It’s called Clever Buoy, and it makes a lot of sense. Much more sense than killing a species that is already in pretty dire straights, and one that we’re already killing millions of every year so we can eat soup and get boners, or whatever stupid thing someone stupid says that shark fins do. And now the Clever Buoy is finally getting in the water.

    See The Inertia and Clever Buoy

    https://youtu.be/QYHPe5xHcms

  • Guest post by Jez Birds, originally posted on SwimPath

    In keeping with our favourite tradition of fast stuff first, here’s a great little ultra short race skills set to improve the all important underwater phase in order to maintain that speed off the block and wall…

    Firstly, apt to reiterate that the purpose of the underwater kick is to maintain speed off the dive and turn, not to develop it! In contrast to a running sprint where speed needs to be built rapidly over the first part of the race, a swimmer is never again travelling as fast in the water as the moment that they first enter after the dive! And never again in the race until the short accelerative burst off the wall…

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  • A Singaporean swimmer has seen his hopes of qualifying for the Zika-threatened Rio de Janeiro Olympics hampered by another mosquito-borne illness after he contracted dengue fever.

    Danny Yeo, a 25-year-old freestyle specialist, contracted the virus two weeks ago and said he was unlikely to be at 100 percent for his last Olympic trial at the Singapore National Age Group Championships (SNAG) from March 16-20.

    “If I said it wouldn’t affect me, it would be a lie,” he was quoted as saying in Monday’s Straits Times.

    Read Reuters and The Straits Times

  • Honestly, I didn’t think our Mediterranean vacation could get much better.

    The dozen of us on the trip had already swum several miles a day through astonishing turquoise waters off Kas, a remote village on Turkey’s southwest coast, where cliffs soar up from the sea, the soft air is scented with jasmine and views of the glimmering bay are downright therapeutic.

    Amid a ring of seven islands earlier in the week, our group of open-water swimmers glided alongside limestone coastlines, the sunlight spangling the underwater landscape of smooth boulders and serrated pillars. We swam over marine forests swaying in the current. We crossed into the open sea, pulling rhythmically through a panorama of royal blue, a laser show of sunbeams funneling into a gleaming ring in the depth.

    “It’s like swimming in the sky,” my reluctant-swimmer wife, Susan, would say later in our breezy hotel room.

    Read The New York Times

  • Hype video for Notre Dame Swimming 2015-16.

  • A diver stumbles across a whale shark trapped in a commercial fishing line. Sensing the diver is there to help, the goliath lies still while the rope is cut.

    https://youtu.be/bYxsoLELIuI

  • Yesterday (february 13) Scandinavian Winter Swimming Cup was held in SkellefteÃ¥ and this year there were about 300 participants. The winter swimming was organised by ”Dark & Cold” which is one of the five organizers in the world to receive approval from the International Winter Swimming Association, IWSA, to hold a competition that is part of the World Cup.

  • This is the remix that aired on tonight’s (2/10/15) episode of Black-ish http://abc.go.com/shows/blackish

  • Simone Manuel, the first of three African Americans to place in the top three spots in the 100 yard freestyle in any Women’s NCAA Division I Swimming Championship, discusses her responsiblity in inspiring the next generation of African-American and minority swimmers. The two-time NCAA Champion, describes the efforts of her and her swimming peers in bringing awareness of the sport of swimming to the African-American community.