An American boy is the first to emerge from big bathe in Lake Ontario. We need to get those steam whistles back in open water swimming.
http://youtu.be/7_gOqxt72Z4
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11th Annual National Black Heritage Championship Swim Meet
“Nine hundred twenty-seven swimmers, 122 race events, three 50-meter pools and 72,000 square feet — it’s all part of the 11th Annual National Black Heritage Championship Swim Meet.”
http://youtu.be/7DZbVuPCZa0
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Chloe McCardel prepares to swim from Cuba to USA
Chloe McCardel is doing final preparation for her world-record swim from Cuba to the USA without a shark cage or wetsuit. Angela Cox spoke to her about the attempt.
http://youtu.be/3eRbTTmOtJk
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CC photo #513: A manly looking MankoÄ at Rijeka 2008
Male swimmers often show up with quite a beard at the big meets, to be shaven off just before it counts (or not, if it doesn’t). Slovenia’s Peter MankoÄ is one of those that can intimidate also in this department.
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Dozens rescued by coastguards after Southwold Pier-to-Pub Swim goes wrong
Read for instance the BBC, the Mirror, MailOnline, Sky and EDP24A major search and rescue operation was launched yesterday after dozens of people taking part in the Southwold Pier-to-Pub Swim had to be pulled from the sea.
About 200 people were taking part in the event, which involved swimming around the town’s pier before heading to a pub, when more than 130 got into difficulty because of the tide and choppy conditions, initial reports at 1pm saying that 90 were missing. The RNLI lifeboats and lifeguards rescued 85 of them from the sea, the last one first located at 5.30pm, and two of them transferred to the local hospital with suspected hypothermia.
An apology from the organizers can be seen here on activeoutdoorsport.co.uk
Here is video from the RNLI search
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Pál Joensen on training camp in Australia
Sigh, while we local residents of the Faroe Islands are suffering from the seasonal rain (starting in May and ending in April), Pál Joensen has travelled to […grumble…] Gold Coast, Queensland, to train under the legendary Denis Cotterell, coach of Grant Hackett and now Jordan Harrison. Pál comments from Australia: “It is going very well, here. We are training extremely hard, almost every session, and working a lot on technique.”
To put it in perspective, here are my kids having fun last Saturday, balancing on a slippery PVC tube a few meters up during our annual ‘summer’ trip with the IT company I work at. You have to respect Pál for being able to adapt from this, to seemingly enjoy posing outdoors in budgie smugglers in subtropical Australia :-P
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Croatia Underwater Swimming Technique
This is a collection of video clips from 2012 swimming holiday season run by Strel Swimming Adventures, local tour operator. Video clips are used to do video analysis and improve swimming technique in open water.
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Blind toddler inspires others to swim
Colton Meyer has learned to navigate the water with his mom’s help
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CC photo #512: The start of the Rhodes 2007 Island Games triathlon
The start of the men’s triathlon at the Natwest 2007 Island Games in Rhodes, Greece. I was coach of the Faroese triathlon squad back then. The crooked but otherwise really nice outdoor swimming pool can be seen in the background.
