“Sebastien Murat experimented a lot with freediving on empty lungs. You could call him a pioneer on this method of freediving. But see for yourself ….”
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Kiteboarding a Salt Island
“You’ve seen kiteboarding. You’ve seen snowboarding. But what about saltboarding?”
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Bait 3D Trailer
“A group of people who get trapped in a Supermarket after a Tsunami hits the coast of Queensland, Australia. But they soon find out that they have more to worry about than being in a flooded grocery store, there’s a 12 foot shark swimming around them, and it’s hungry.”
Bait 3D Trailer from Conor Coyle on Vimeo.
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CC photo #275: Boxen, venue of the Herning 2013 European Short Course Swimming Championships
Breaking news from my good friend Jesper Harder at Herning Svømmeklub, LEN has awarded Denmark and the Danish city of Herning the 2013 European Short Course Swimming Championships, to be held in the Jyske Bank Boxen multiarena. Here is a photo of ‘The Box’, taken when Jesper drove me from Holstebro til Billund Airport after the 2012 Aqua Clinic. I’ll post it as tomorrow’s CC photo already today :-)
See also the official press release from the Danish Swimming Federation (in Danish)
(Boxen, CC BY 2.0 – use the photo as you wish, as long as you attribute :-)
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Red Bull 400: The hardest 400m Run in Europe
On a beautiful and sunny Saturday, 164 runners from 9 countries competed against each other trying to conquer the famous ski jump in Planica. The hardest 400 m run was won by the Turk Arslan Ahmet in the men category (5:02:53), and by the Austrian Teresa Stadlober in the women category (6:46:44).
– I’m pretty sure you can hit max HR, running up that hill :-S
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CC photo #274: Philippe Lucas at Rijeka 2008
The ‘nomadic’ French coach Philippe Lucas at the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships, a year after his split with long-time protegé Laure Manaudou. If I remember correctly, here at Rijeka 2008 coaching Romania’s Camelia Potec. As of September 2008, he is now again coaching Italy’s Federica Pellegrini, along with Amaury Leveaux and others at Narbonne, see for instance SwimNews.
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Paolo Barelli replaces Nory Kruchten as LEN president
Breaking news from our friend Bjørn Soleng live tweeting (or facebooking) the 2012 LEN Congress, Italy’s Mr Paolo Barelli replaces Mr Nory Kruchten from Luxembourg as president of the European Swimming Federation, Sweden’s Sven von Holst has been elected as one of five vice presidents, and Norway’s Per Rune Eknes is new member of the board.
See official press release here, also elected vice president is Germany’s Dr. Christa Thiel, and in her place new Treasurer Tamas Gyarfas from Hungary. New General Secreaty is GBR’s David Sparkes, replacing retired Sven Egil Folvik from Norway, and among the newly elected members of the LEN Bureau Russia’s Vladimir Salnikov and Serbia’s Aleksandar Sostar.
(Photo: Bjørn Soleng)
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What it looks like when a gun is fired underwater
Behold a Glock 22 being fired underwater, more awesome photos and video to be seen here on PetaPixel. So it was seems to be true what our physics teacher taught us at engineering school, that you wouldn’t be able to shoot through a 1 meter thick aquarium.
http://youtu.be/502KryEguA0
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Florida Gators Swimming & Diving Intro Video
