Swimmer's Daily

  • In this Swimisode Olympic Gold Medalist Rebecca Soni and Zach Hayden demonstrate fast swimming drills that will improve your swim training program. Coach Gary Hall teaches how to swim breaststroke drills that improve your swimming techniques. Catch all our Swimisodes and more exclusive video @ http://www.theraceclub.com/

  • Designing robots on the micro or nano scale (like, small enough to fit inside your body) is all about simplicity. There just isn’t room for complex motors or actuation systems. There’s barely room for any electronics whatsoever, not to mention batteries, which is why robots that can swim inside your bloodstream or zip around your eyeballs are often driven by magnetic fields. However, magnetic fields drag around anything and everything that happens to be magnetic, so in general, they’re best for controlling just one single microrobot robot at a time. Ideally, you’d want robots that can swim all by themselves, and a robotic micro-scallop, announced today in Nature Communications, could be the answer.

    See IEEE Spectrum

  • A swimmer in Australia pulled off an incredibly dangerous stunt involving the floating carcass of a dead whale and two hungry great white sharks, and lived to tell the tale.

    A 26-year-old man risked his life by jumping into the water and climbing on the whale while two sharks were gorging themselves on its flesh.

    “Out on the boat with the boys and one of my mates thought it’d be pretty funny if I surfed the whale so I just did it,” Harrison said.

    Harrison says it wasn’t until he was on top of the whale that he realized how dangerous what he’d just done was and he says looking back on it it’s something he would never do again.

    See ABC 7

  • Olympic 200m Butterfly Champion Chad le Clos united with arena to bring you this ‘unbelievable’ surf wear collection.

    Listen to the South African as he talks about his passion for surfing and the inspiration behind his new collection.

  • The 16th FINA World Championships will be held in Kazan, Russia, from July 24 – August 9, 2015. Kazan has now developed the most advanced sporting infrastructure in all of Russia and has one of the most advanced Aquatic facilities in the world.

    http://youtu.be/vB3K99psTlk

  • Courtesy of South African swimmer JustUsBrah / Calvyn Justus

    http://youtu.be/Ye3u6ujLEl0

  • In this week’s Spotlight, watch a man complete the most consecutive bench presses underwater — hold your breath!

  • A wildlife photographer has made a return trip to the Alaskan city of Kaktovik to capture the high number of polar bears being drawn to the area.

    David Swindler, 35, from Utah, first visited came to the city in October last year to photographer the bears going about their everyday lives on the Barrier Island.

    However, this year brought more challenges including two polar curious polar bears swimming after his boat.

    Mr Swindler shot the footage using a GoPro camera which captured the bears speeding up to the boat, going underwater and even touching the camera with their noses.

    See The Telegraph

    http://youtu.be/KvogdZWr6QE

  • Bolivian authorities say eight students have drowned during a swimming break on an end-of-term school trip.

    Local police chief Alberto Antezana says the 29 students aged 17 to 19 set out from the eastern city of Santa Cruz on a trip around part of the country. They asked the driver to stop at the Ichoa River so they could go swimming, but misjudged the force of the current.

    Rescuers recovered the last of the eight bodies on Wednesday.

    Read ABC News

    http://youtu.be/K6hthctlDqE