Swimmer's Daily

  • In this first of five webisodes on how to swim fast butterfly, Gary Hall Sr discusses body position and how it correlates to a strong kick and a low driving breath. Featuring footage from the Race Club‘s “Life is Worth Swimming” their newest DVD Starring Bobby Savulich and George Bovell III.

  • FINA Technical Swimming Committee Chairman Carol Zaleski (USA) and Honorary Secretary Søren Korbo (DEN) in charge of the first FINA Swimming Officials Schools course in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, Saturday 2 February 2013. This site yet again a bit quiet, today and tomorrow, because of this :-)

    FINA Swimming Officials School in Tórshavn

  • Read interview in The Scotsman

    “During competition you have to go into yourself, but you have to have the same kind of spatial awareness of the crowd, the arena, and how that can pull into your performance. The energy from the crowd or your competitors can contribute in a very positive way to your performance. It can also be detrimental. The best technical swimming will never be done in competition. The evolution of swimming happens in training.”

    A gold medal swim, then, isn’t necessarily someone’s best performance, just their fastest? “Sometimes you’ve been very successful and it wasn’t, technically, your best performance. I look back at some of my competitions and there are huge mistakes. You have to be good enough in training so that on a bad day in competition you’re still good enough to be able to perform.”

  • “Our friends in the MPS program (mps.rsmas.miami.edu) at the Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science bring cameras into the field to document a day in the life of a graduate student. Filmed entirely with GoPro Hero 2 and Hero 3 cameras. Underwater shots taken with the Blurfix lens by Snake River Prototyping. Spread the lust at www.waterlust.org”

    http://youtu.be/w4joiyM7gbY

  • Because, y’know, seal pups are generally clueless

    Via Buzzfeed

  • Ah, “Holly needs to loose some weight, and though it’s certainly odd to see a cat swimming, it’s the only kind of exercise that she’ll agree to”. Cool cat! Via Buzzfeed

    http://youtu.be/KvyOpmRrUWQ

  • Hungary’s László Cseh greeting Japan’s Daiya Seto after the men’s 400 meter individual medley final at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. Seto won in 3:59.15, Cseh second in 4:00.50, see the result list here.

    Cseh greeting Seto after the Istanbul 2012 men's 400 IM

  • Danish radio host Rune Hedeman had promised to complete three challenges if he got more than 5000 Facebook likes: To sing a birthday song for the Danish prime minister Helle Thorning, to have his eye pierced, and to complete a winter swim across a channel near the Danish Radio center. He received about 20,000 likes, which again resulted in him completing all three challenges in sequence this morning.

    I recommend skipping the birthday song and the piercing, as incredibly enough the icy swim seems the least painful part of this challenge, at least for us spectators :-P

    See DR.dk (swim from about 3:57)

    (Oh and yes, see-through wet retro swimsuit hefty ass crack alert)

  • Whale spotting Faroe style, this Tuesday a small humpback whale decided to go sight-seeing in our capitol Tórshavn, swimming into the marina which is as sheltered as it can be, in the heart of Tórshavn harbor, besides the Faroese seat of government, in the heart of the Faroe Islands.

    No need for boats here, you could just walk around it :-)

    This is Tinganes, the office of the Faroese prime minister. The whale swam to the left of it, all the way in to those yachts seen in the background.

    Tinganes, Tórshavn

    Picture courtesy of Stig Nygaard, CC BY 2.0

    Diver and underwater wildlife photographer Ingi Sørensen decided to go swimming with it, but unfortunately the water was really cloudy.