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  • Can swimming make you smarter? (short answer: yes)

    Nov 1, 2013

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    rokur
    in Health, Training

    See wbtv.com

    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.

    WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for Charlotte, NC

  • Australian parents value swimming and water safety lessons above all other extra-curricular activities

    Nov 1, 2013

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    rokur
    in Safety

    See AUSTSWIM

    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 strokes”. 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.

    Learning Breast Stroke

    Image courtesy of Tommy Wong, CC BY 2.0

  • Florida Swimming and Diving: Defining Success

    Nov 1, 2013

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    rokur
    in Competition, Organization, Wow

    “We are Florida Swimming and Diving and this is how we define success.”

    http://youtu.be/xJW8ujh0OGw

  • Nice Arena ad featuring Gregorio Paltrinieri

    Nov 1, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in Equipment, Wow

    Title says “Swim to grow – Arena promotes the practice of swimming”. Or something like that.

  • What’s Next For Diana Nyad?

    Nov 1, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in Open Water

    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.

  • First night of Great Danes project apparently going well

    Nov 1, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in Fun, Organization

    Awesome photo taken by Danish Olympian Daniel Skaaning

    Post by Daniel Skaaning.
  • Beluga Whale bully sprays Chinese kid

    Nov 1, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in Fun, Nature

    “Step away from the window, kiddo!”

  • CC photo #670: Our flag among friends at BCN2013

    Nov 1, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition, Faroe Islands

    Just a photo from the FINA 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Our flag ‘Merkið‘ in the midst of our usual alphabet friends :-)

    Our flag among friends at BCN2013

  • Nick Juba interviewed as Great Danes project launches this weekend

    Nov 1, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in Competition, Organization, Training

    Nick JubaAs mentioned in September and October, the Great Danes project is an initiative aiming to strengthen the male side of Danish swimming, by offering a selection of their best young male swimmers the opportunity to step-up on the international stage. Svoem.dk has interviewed Danish national coach Nick Juba, as this project launches this weekend, with a training camp in Greve, Denmark.

    What will the main focus for this first gathering be?
    This weekend will be about laying a foundation for the Great Danes programme. I will be explaining to Denmark’s top male, home-based swimmers exactly what we are trying to achieve over the next three years. I know that the Great Danes is an important initiative for Danish swimming and, if we are to raise the standard of Danish men’s swimming to the current world- high women’s levels, we need to get it just right!

    How will you mentally strengthen the boys individually and as a group?
    ”There will be plenty of talking from an experienced group of Danish coaches and Team Denmark sports psychologists, but also from out-of-swimming speakers. Currently these guys, in swimming-terms need to have, stronger egos and more self-belief in their own capabilities. One mentor that I will use will be Jakob Andkjaer, a Danish World and European medallist from recent times. The Great Danes need to know exactly what it takes to live with the world’s best swimmers.”

    Read more here on svoem.dk (the interview itself in English)

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