Swimmer's Daily

  • Watch Olympic gold medallist, Tyler Clary, demonstrate the perfect butterfly kick technique in our easy to follow how-to video, devised by our elite swim coaches to help you achieve a powerful butterfly kick.

    http://youtu.be/8s7-Zm_izBA

  • Bubbles the African elephant loves to swim and she enjoys the experience even more when she has friends to share it with. Bubbles has developed her own game of picking people up with her trunk and them placing them on her head. She waits for the person to jump off and, if they wait too long, she shakes them off. Bubbles then reaches out to pick them up and do it all over again. She really seems to enjoy doing this with new people, because she always gets a big reaction from them.

  • Watch the perfect freestyle stroke technique in action via our helpful how-to video, which includes a demonstration by Olympic freestyle sprint champion, Nathan Adrian, along with tips from our elite swim coach to help you improve your freestyle arm pull, hand entry and catch position.

    http://youtu.be/SONx52cyltI

  • Devin, Dustin and Danielle Wahl could be the first trio of siblings to swim across the English Channel at the same time. They’re doing it in part to raise awareness about Alzheimer’s, a disease that affected their loved ones. Norah O’Donnell reports.

  • Warning, a bit of bad language, as can happen when a shark jumps on you.

    It’s a routine kayak fishing adventure for Isaac Brumaghim, until Chompy the shark shows up.

  • Brazilian girl fishing for piranha using a piece of meat

    http://youtu.be/DyEaX71_XrQ

  • It sounds like something out of a third grader’s standardized testing: “If 39,000 tons of coal ash spilled into the river and they got 3,000 tons out, how many tons are left in the river?”

    We won’t do the math for you, but… well hey, why not?

    36,000 tons. That’s how much coal ash (at minimum) is still in the Dan River after a massive spill from the Duke Energy coal plant in Eden, NC on Feb. 2. The energy giant has since stopped trying to remove it – a decision green-lighted by the EPA – and, this week, the state lifted the recreational water advisory on the Dan. That means if you want to swim, tube, fish, clam, or just hang-out-and-cool-off in the Dan River, according to the State of North Carolina, you’re good to go.

    Officially, anyway.

    Read abc11.com

  • SwimmingWorld Magazine just announced that they will be switching to this site (at the moment in Beta), which is powered by WordPress like the one you are reading right now. So that would be two of my favorite sites switching to WordPress these past few days – The New Yorker (which had us mentioned back in 2012) and SwimmingWorld Magazine.

     

  • You might know him from such films as Snatch, The Italian Job and The Expendables, but back in the day, Jason Statham was a member of Britain’s National Diving Squad for twelve years. Here below competing for England at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, and being treated rather harshly (but maybe fairly, what do I know) by the TV commentator.

    http://youtu.be/Qsshwg2vulg

    Photo by GabboT