Welcome to the awesome jet bike revolution, where you bike in water, 30 minutes of Jet Bike equalling 2 hours of standard bike while sweating less, according to FitWet. Well, at least it keeps those bikes out of the pool. Via Gizmag
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Liquipel-coated iPhone 5 gets soaked filming FlyBoard ad, and survives
According to Sparkhouse, their new ad for the FlyBoard from Fly Jet Sports was filmed entirely using an iPhone 5 coated in a water-resistant coating made by Liquipel.
Here’s the finished ad
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Lucas is ‘the biggest mouth in French swimming’, says Donze
Controversial coach Philippe Lucas will return to the France coaching setup for the duration of the European short-course swimming championships in Chartres next month after a five-year absence from the national fold. Read Business Recorder
National technical director Christian Donze
“He’s (Lucas) the biggest mouth in French swimming but above all a coach with experience and competence at the very highest level.”
Awesome, I wish I understood more French ! :-)
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Longest wave Surfed By a Dog
The longest wave surfed by a dog (open water) is 107.2 meters (351.7 ft), and was achieved by Abbie Girl (USA) at Ocean Beach Dog Beach, in San Diego, California, USA, on 18 October 2011.
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Felix Baumgartner to jump from space today
No I know, hopefully not swimming relevant, but I’m watching this crazy Swiss guy jumping from the stratosphere today, to freefall at the speed of sound after only 30 seconds. Live on YouTube, he is entering the capsule at this moment, jumping in about 2 hours.
UPDATE: The launch has been aborted for today, due to gusty winds.
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CC photo #284: The big boys sprint at Istanbul 2009
OK, not totally sure here, but I think the guy with the ‘meat hook’ stroke on lane 4 from us is Frédérick Bousquet, here winning the men’s 50 freestyle prelims at the LEN 2009 European Short Course Championships in Istanbul, Turkey in 21.18, on his way to winning the event in 20.53 that same evening.
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CC photo #283: Faroese swimmers checking out a gift box at DÃ…M 2008
Don’t really remember what is was, and why they got it, but for some reason our young Faroese swimmers got a gift box at the Danish Youth Championships 2008. The interest was immense :-)
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Swimming at Black Rock
“This video starts with me picking the GoPro up off the ocean floor. I’d lost it about 10 minutes earlier. It fell out of my pocket while swimming to check out some gentle splashing in the water (I thought was a turtle). Luckily the camera is silver so I was able to spot it half-buried in the sand. Anyhow, turns out, the splashing wasn’t a turtle at all.”
Swimming at Black Rock from Matt Terski on Vimeo.
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Sander Smørdal joins Speed Endurance, first post is about Scandinavia at London 2012
Excellent news, Norwegian swimmer/blogger Sander E. Smørdal has been added as author to the Speed Endurance Swimming Blog, his first post there is an interesting recap of “London 2012 – The Scandinavian Story“. Sander also publishes the Norwegian part of Simma.nu, as well as working for TV2 in Norway, but now you’ll get it in English too ! :-)
“For the Nordic countries in general the London Olympic Games was a giant let down. Following great expectations, the Scandinavians as a whole delivered no medals, and for Norway: not even a semi final.”
Sander at the MU 2012 in KlaksvÃk, Faroe Islands, substituting as coach for Jón Bjarnason at SuSvim