Marlon Kjærbo, chairman of Suðuroyar Svimjifelag in Vágur, Faroe Islands, here running to Tórshavn as part of a fundraising run between all Faroese swimming pools that are used in competitive swimming. He ran at least a marathon the first day, and has now on the second day clocked 13 hours and 58 minutes and 105,4 kilometers, raising money and collecting samples of pool water for our first long course pool, under construction in Vágur.
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Pools are a child’s playground.
Usually swimming is the lesson kids are learning while in the water.
But researchers out of Australia say there are other benefits with the simple strokes kids are getting smarter and YMCA aquatics instructor Saunte Bruton agrees.
“It teaches them another way of dealing with being afraid of things and it also teaches them the concept of actually doing more than one thing at a time,” said Bruton.
A four-year study reveals he younger children start swimming to the smarter pool of talent when it comes to intellectual and social skills.
“We’ve just seen some improvement in general, the sleep patter, the attention span; it’s just gotten so much better,” said parent Lisa Pugh.
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Australia were pleased that both parents and non-parents chose “learning to swim†as the most important activity for children aged 5 to 14 years when provided a set of seven popular extra-curricular activities in a recent community survey. In addition, when asked to assess the relative importance of a set of eight water safety and aquatic skills, the majority also rated “personal survival skills†as the most important, followed by “water safety knowledge†and “survival swimming strokesâ€. This survey finding contradicts the views of swimming teachers from previous research conducted by both organisations where teachers were asked to rank the same skills from a parent’s perception. Teachers of swimming and water safety believed that parents would value competitive strokes as the most important skills.
Image courtesy of Tommy Wong, CC BY 2.0
“We are Florida Swimming and Diving and this is how we define success.”
http://youtu.be/xJW8ujh0OGw
Title says “Swim to grow – Arena promotes the practice of swimming”. Or something like that.
Diana Nyad talks about what’s next in her life — from doing more “Swims For Relief”, writing another book, and doing her one-woman show.
“Step away from the window, kiddo!”
Just a photo from the FINA 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Our flag ‘Merkið‘ in the midst of our usual alphabet friends :-)
