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Meet Japan’s badass, elderly freediving women
Via Breitbart – “In Japan, elderly women freedive every day to collect shellfish, a fishing tradition that is struggling to hook the next generation.”
See also Tokyo Times: “Women diving into the ocean to pick abalones are known in Japan as “amas†or “sea womenâ€. Ladies diving into waters of up to 20 meters deep have become one of Japan’s trademarks, despite the fact that many of the ‘amas’ have lost their lives throughout the years due to the risky diving that is made just by wearing a simple mask.”
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Becoming Men – Short film about the Grand Canal freestyle diving kids
“During a long hot summer in inner city Dublin, a man looks back on his own youth. Things haven’t changed much.”
via The Irish Times, thanks John!
Becoming Men from Motherland on Vimeo.
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CC photo #632: Them shoes again
Proud teddy bears on top of the medal podium at the FINA 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain. This after the men’s 200 meter backstroke, result list here.
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Training Katie Ledecky for World Championships, by Bruce Gemmell, Part 1 (2013)
“Part 1 of 4: Bruce Gemmell, the head coach at Nation’s Capital Swim Club, talks about training Katie Ledecky for her successful swims at the 2013 world championships. From the 2013 American Swim Coaches Association’s world clinic.”
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
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Visually impaired student trains for long distance swim
Katie Cuppie an Northern Arizona University freshman is training for what may seem like the impossible. Being visually impaired isn’t something that holds Cuppie back, she plans to swim the distance from Alcatraz to San Francisco Bay.
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Camilla Pedersen communicates with family after 19 days in coma
Read the good news (in Danish) on triathlon.dkEuropean Ironman champion Camilla Pedersen has taken a big step back to life when she Sunday was taken out of the medically induced coma she has been kept in since she on September 3rd crashed on her bike and suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain. She has communicated with her family, but is still very groggy because of the medication. Danish national coach Michael Krüger says that the doctors have now started the recovery phase, which can vary from a few days to a few weeks, where after a long and hard rehabilitation period awaits.
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CC photo #631: Competition warm-up at BCN2013
Just a ‘miniature effect’ photo from the FINA 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain.
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Speedo Advisors | How to utilise swimming as a full body workout by Matt Taylor
“How to utilise swimming as a full body workout. Swimming advice and tips from Speedo Advisor Matt Taylor.”