Swimmer's Daily

  • Learn how to improve butterfly technique with Olympic Gold Medalist and World Record Holder Roland Schoeman and Coach Gary Hall. Butterfly is a challenging swimming stroke because it requires tremendous upper body strength and a strong kick. In order to perform great butterfly technique a swimmer not only needs great conditioning but also perfect timing. Good swimming technique for fly also requires minimizing the frontal drag forces that are so overpowering to all swimmers.

    Courtesy of theraceclub on YouTube

    Swimisodes – Improve Butterfly Technique – Skate Drill

  • Santa Clara is world famous for its swimming and synchronized swimming teams and for its spectacular water show productions.

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    Santa Clara Swimming and Water Shows

  • One of the most memorable events in swimming history occurred at the 1952 Olympic Games when the winner’s father jumped fully clothed into the pool to congratulate his son’s victory.

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    Jean Boiteux – 1952 Olympic Champion

  • Water Song is one of five different films from the same script. As part of Bombay Sapphire’s Imagination Series, Oscar winner Geoffrey Fletcher wrote a script stripped of any stage direction and asked people to imagine their film.

    Courtesy of BombaySapphire on YouTube

  • Michael Jamieson speaks to Sportsvibe about getting over not winning gold in Glasgow, the world championships in Russia and preparing for Rio 2016, as well as his new Speed LZR Racer X suit.

    Courtesy of sportsvibeTV on YouTube

  • Courtesy of XD Prod on YouTube

    http://youtu.be/fq0KaVURf2E

  • A family visiting Santa Barbara from Orange County had an unexpected visitor on their kayak, a sea lion pup!! Rodney and Lisa Gist and their three kids spent more than a half-hour with the pup on the back of their kayak on Valentine’s Day. They say it’s a holiday they will never forget.

    Courtesy of Joey Buttitta on YouTube

  • The Kosovo Swimming Federation became the 208th FINA Member, after the recent approval of affiliation by the FINA Bureau. The distribution of the FINA National Member Federations in the five continents is now as follows: Africa – 52; Americas – 44; Asia – 44; Europe – 52; Oceania – 16.

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  • A message from the FINA GMS

    We are pleased to announce that the registration for the 16th FINA World Masters Championships 2015 – Kazan (RUS) IS NOW OPEN!

    16th FINA World Championships – Kazan 2015

    The entry booklet for the Championships is available for download here.

    The registration for the FINA World Masters Championships is INDIVIDUAL. Each participant must create his own account and register through the FINA General Management System (FINA GMS) Public Portal by going to https://registration.fina.org

    The registration user guide dedicated to Masters can be found by clicking here

    Please note the following important deadlines for Registration:

    FINAL Registration and Individual Events Deadline: 15 June 2015

    • All persons willing to participate must be registered and have paid their registration fee to the event by 15 June 2015.
    • No registrations will be accepted after 15 June 2015.
    • All individual event entries must be paid by 15 June 2015.


    FINAL Sport Entries (Correction for Individual events and Submission of Team events entries) Deadline: 02 July 2015

    • All corrections to Individual swimming entries must be submitted by 02 July 2015. Only corrections to individual Swimming entry times(submitted and paid before 15 June 2015) will be accepted up to 02 July 2015.
    • All Team event entries must be submitted and paid by 02 July 2015. Only persons registered by the registration deadline (15 June 2015) will be able to be added to teams before the deadline (02 July 2015).
    • No changes or additions to Individual or Team event entries will be accepted after 02 July 2015


    NB: All fees must be paid by the respective deadline.

    For all information about the FINA World Masters Championships  Kazan 2015, please refer to the Official website of the Championships: http://masters.kazan2015.com/en

    Frequently Asked Questions about the Championships are on the Championships website located here: http://masters.kazan2015.com/en/faq

    Should you have any questions relating to the event, please send enquiries to: masters2015@kazan2015.com