Swimmer's Daily

  • Collegiate and Masters Swim Coach Doug Alban, MEd, CSCS explains and Swimmer Kyle Williams demonstrates the double entry swimming drill for freestyle swimmers and triathletes.

  • Learn how to strengthen and improve freestyle swimming for triathlon and open water from US Olympian Alex Meyer. He integrates time-efficient power based dryland swim-specific training on Vasa Trainers and Vasa Swim Ergometers. He relies on using the popular swim benches to connect better, more powerfully with the water, to sustain proper high elbow catch freestyle and prevent fatigue in races. This video will help any triathlete or swimmer who is time-crunched, can’t get to the pool often enough, or who wants to improve Freestyle swimming technique, sustained power, and endurance to swim better, faster, with greater confidence.

    http://youtu.be/5P1gZtc1ck0

  • Via Nothing To Do With Arbroath

    Thousands of semi-naked men clad only in brief loincloths took part in the biggest ‘naked festival’ in Japan, the Hadaka Matsuri, in the city of Okayama on Saturday night.

    http://youtu.be/X8Ec4qrW34s

  • Image courtesy of Rockybiggs, CC BY-SA 3.0
    Image courtesy of Rockybiggs, CC BY-SA 3.0

    Read BBC

    As British swimmers leapt from the London 2012 starting blocks, they should have been doing so in full confidence.

    But their performance was one of the few lowlights of 2012, with the team securing three medals instead of UK Sport’s target of at least five.

    “We put a lot of pressure on ourselves,” said Rebecca Adlington, who won two of those medals. “And there is always this fear that if we don’t perform, we will get our funding cut.”

    British Swimming’s funding was, indeed, cut by £4m. But it is not just at the elite level swimming has suffered.

    Since 2008, grassroots participation has fallen from 3.2 million to 2.9 million a week, while the Amateur Swimming Association says 51% of children aged seven to 11 cannot swim 25m.

    What has gone wrong with swimming in Britain?

  • See redpinecamp.com

    For Once You Have Been A Camper, Something Is Here To Stay, Deep In Your Heart Forever, Which Nothing Can Take Away

    Here are some campers explaining their 50 mile swim

  • Read Huffington Post

    If you have a bottomless bank account and a love that goes deeper than the ocean, a British travel outfit has created a package that allows lovers to make their own tsunami waves in a romantic getaway aboard a luxury submarine.

    OK, so it’s not yellow. But for adventurous couples who may have already inducted themselves into the Mile High Club at 35,000 feet, Oliver’s Travels has adapted a leisure submarine with luxury furnishings and “sound-proof living accommodations” as part of their Mile Low Club.

    The underwater marine hotel called “Lovers Deep” can be moored near the coral reef off the coast of St. Lucia or near a sunken battleship in the Red Sea.

    But love at the bottom of the ocean doesn’t come cheap. You’ll need to cough up $292,800 USD per night for a stay on the submarine vessel.

  • On Saturday mornings, the swimming pool at the France A. Cordova Recreational Center splashes with the sound of children learning to swim, but that sound also helps parents with children in the Special Needs Aquatic Program breathe a sigh of relief.

  • As you can read in English for instance here on seattlepi.com, a young orca has been separated from its family and faces an uncertain future in the Norwegian fjord of Ã…lsvÃ¥g. Norwegian media site VesterÃ…len Online has the story, and the heart-wrenching video when the tiny and seemingly battered calf cries for mommy.

  • See Today Health

    Former Olympic swimmer Sara Isakovic and psychiatrist Dr. Janet Taylor walk viewers through how athletes manage to compete at such high levels without succumbing to pressure, and how you can use their techniques.