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  • CC photo #400: Tórshavn 2013 FINA Swimming Official Schools course participants

    Feb 3, 2013

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

    There we are, 2 from Great Britain, 2 from Slovenia, Carol and Søren, and a whole lot of Faroese. Mission accomplished! :-)

    Participants of the Tórshavn 2013 FINA Swimming Official Schools course

  • Michael Phelps Aiming For PGA Tour?

    Feb 3, 2013

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    rokur
    in Dryland, Gossip

    http://youtu.be/nuF4fYAZWkU

  • Scottish Swimming Annual Report 2012

    Feb 3, 2013

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    rokur
    in Organization

    “This is the Annual Report 2012 of Scottish Swimming, the national governing body for swimming in Scotland. We represent clubs, swim schools, aquatic disciplines, athletes, coaches and thousands of talented and committed volunteers across the entire swimmer pathway from development and participation through to performance. Our vision is to ensure is to ensure that every single person in Scotland has access to quality swimming programmes, regardless of age or ability.” Via the17thman

    http://youtu.be/kXVOg3njbrc

  • Fast Swimming Techniques – Butterfly Body Position

    Feb 3, 2013

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    rokur
    in Technique

    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.

  • CC photo #399: FINA Swimming Officials School in Tórshavn, today

    Feb 2, 2013

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

    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

  • Ian Thorpe on getting back in the pool

    Feb 2, 2013

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    rokur
    in Competition, Technique, Training

    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.”

  • WetLab – A Waterlust film about students in water

    Feb 1, 2013

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    rokur
    in Nature, Open Water, Wow

    “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

  • Dolphins help young seal find its way home

    Feb 1, 2013

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    rokur
    in Nature

    Because, y’know, seal pups are generally clueless

    Via Buzzfeed

  • Cat Swims Laps To Lose Weight

    Feb 1, 2013

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    rokur
    in Health

    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

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