Swimmer's Daily

  • Paul Giamatti has joined the small but impressive list of celebrities who were competitive swimmers before they achieved stardom, publicly discussing his past life in the pool during an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

    On the show to promote his upcoming film San Andreas, Giamatti talked about growing up in New Haven, Conn., as “the third-level backstroke guy” on his team. He doesn’t specify if the team was part of his high school or if it was a USA Swimming team.

    Giamatti also briefly talked about a training trip to the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in the 1980s, and said he thought he might be a member of the Hall of Fame. Though a few Hollywood celebrities are among the illustrious group of inductees, Giamatti is not one of them. He and Kimmel shared some laughs over a common occurrence among swimmers: the process of shaving.

    See Swimming World

    http://youtu.be/SkAQz81X3B4

  • 6-times Danish coach of the year Bo Jacobsen has decided to start his own coaching consulting business, see www.coachjacobsen.dk. Bo is brother and former coach of Danish swimming legend Mette Jacobsen, who also coached Jacob Carstensen to gold in the 400 freestyle at the 1997 World Short Course Championships.

    Bo was from 1994 to 2013 the flag bearer of Danish swimming outside of the National Training Center in Copenhagen, as head coach of 12-times Danish club of the year SGI/West Swim, later merged into Esbjerg Svømmeklub, before he moved on to new successes as national head coach of Finland, 2013-2015.

    And he is a nice guy ! :-)

    bo-jacobsen-coaching.pdf

     

  • Brian Goldman died peacefully Sunday morning (May 10, 2015) after a long battle with colon cancer. He is survived by his wife, Michele, his two adored sons, Jared and Ben, his parents Jill and Alan Goldman, his sisters Betsy Goldman and Melissa Rouse, brother-in-law Scott Rouse, nephews Jake and Austin Rouse, brother and sister-in-laws Mark and Tamar Hauptman and their children, Jacob, Rebecca, Gabrielle, and Noah. He is also survived by his precious Mudpuppy family.

  • Brock on your Block host Phil Brock talks with Mikey Flaherty of the organization Swim With Heart in Santa Monica. Swim With Heart focuses on children and adults with special need teaching them not only how to swim but how to also strengthen their bodies.

  • In part 3 of the official film of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games we turn our attention to Swimming, Athletics and we see Morocco’s Hicham El Guerrouj attempt to claim Olympic glory.

  • Lewis Pugh swims in the life-threatening conditions of the Antarctic Ocean where killer whales, leopard seals and the freezing temperatures of the water could kill him. And he does it all while wearing a Speedo.

    Pugh recently completed three swims in the Ross Sea where the icy water is 29 degrees Fahrenheit, and the only thing colder than jumping into that water is climbing out of it: The frigid air hits wind gusts up to 47 mph.

    Contrary to what you might be thinking, Pugh isn’t crazy, and he definitely doesn’t just do this for fun. He’s swimming in vulnerable ecosystems as an effort to bring attention to the impact our actions have on the oceans.

    See USA Today

  • And waterproof to boot, see PetaPixel

    Lily is a new robotic camera drone that aims to shake up not only the drone industry, but the camera industry as a whole. It’s the world’s first “throw-and-shoot camera” that lets anyone capture cinematic aerial photos and videos without needing to do any piloting.

  • For two weeks in May, our One Ocean Media Foundation helped organize, and film, a unique learn-to-swim project on the remote Maldivian island of Eydafushi. Despite living just a couple feet above sea level, many of the locals here never learn to swim. With the support of the SLOW LIFE Foundation and the Soneva Fushi Resort, our goal was to get moms and kids more confident in the water, in part as a means to impress upon them the importance of taking better care of the beautiful ocean that surrounds them.