This is one of my favorite photos ( / swimming moments), despite of it being taken with a crappy DCR-HC96E camcorder meant for filming more than photography. A quay full of people in honor of the arrival of the island of Suðuroy’s triple 2008 European junior champion, Pál Joensen, and that little guy knows how to drive it home. Picture by the way taken only a few meters away from that picture yesterday, but now on dry land.
Thanks John Tierney, for starting my day out on a positive note !
Here below is a Happy Christmas / Serpentine Swim Celebration song featuring John and two others from the Serpentine Swimming Club. You know, if we added a bass (/me) to that trio, it could be a proper barbershop quartet ! :-)
This picture has been going viral these past two days, taken by Jóannis Sørensen on January 18, 2012 at Viðareiði in the Faroe Islands. He was on radio just now saying it had been shared about 2000 times already. He calls it “Where Nature Rules“.
My brother Bartal (the weather-interested geologist) sent me this weather satellite photo from the same day, with Faroe Islands looking like the evil belly button on top of the Earth.
It has been a tough winter, Bartal posted on Google+ on December 28th that we’d had 2 hurricanes (average windspeed above 33 m/s) and 3 storms (average windspeed above 25 m/s) only that (Christmas) week. If I sometimes seem a bit weak in energy here on the site, then you now know why. Sigh.
Australia’s Swimming WA is live streaming its 2011-2012 SWA Open and Age LC Championships finals every night from January 17th to 21st 2012 starting at 5:45pm local time, featuring for instance Blair Evans, Eamon Sullivan, Matt Abood, Geoff Huegill and Sweden’s Therese Alshammar. Other news disclose that Geoff Huegill has had his training disrupted by a series of viruses, saying over-training was partly to blame.
Two guys having a final chat before the Jóansøku 2011 open water swim across the Tvøroyri firth in Suðuroy, Faroe Islands. As you see, we are not following the open water rules strictly, when it comes to gloves and caps and snorkels etc. But then again, with the water temperature seldom over 7ºC (44.6ºF), it will never really be a normal, rules-abiding open water swim.
The 3.5-ton underwater statue of Saint Francis of Paola has been found, that disappeared in December. A patrol boat spotted a small floating buoy some 200 metres from the place where the statue was originally located, members of the Paola Divers Unit were called, and found the statue tied to the buoy’s mooring line, possibly dragged there by the net of a fishing boat. The statue is in good condition, but an arm is broken. Via AGI.it.
Really nice video here, featuring Jody Fisher, world champion in the freediving ‘Dynamic No Fins’ category from the 2011 AIDA World Indoor Championships in Lignano, Italy.
It is her first television commercial, she says on Facebook. Axa is a Lantmännen brand of breakfast products, here promoting their oatmeal flakes in particular.
Wow, a 4-man pushup with lift-off exercise, a 4-girl endurance session and … a, ehm, human pushup centipede ?
(If you look closely, you’ll notice that the front man in the first exercise is Pál Joensen)
