The Element tablet by Pantech offers a waterproof design, quick dual-core processor, HDMI output and 4G LTE data. Bad thing is that it is not operable underwater, and not particularly rugged beyond water resistance. Bottom line that it is a fun, midsize tabled geared more toward the accident-prone than the outdoor adventurer. Read full review here on CNET.com
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Shallow Water Blackout Prevention: The Whitner Milner Story
Whitner Milner died in the family pool from shallow water blackout, which experts believe to be the #1 cause of swimming-related deaths. Rhonda Milner, MD, is working with pool expert Tom Griffiths and Clarion, the safety sign company, to bring awareness to the danger, pointing to the 3 criteria of shallow water blackout: That it is competitive, repetitive and involves over-breathing. A sobering reply to that intelligence-inducing story earlier this evening.
Clarion: Drowning Prevention from Christopher King on Vimeo.
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UMD Swimming struggling to save their program from elimination
With less than five months to go, some are questioning whether the University of Maryland’s formula for saving its men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams was developed in good faith, or merely as a public relations stunt. They are supposed to raise $11.6 million by June 30, and have raised $1 million so far.
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The Race Club: George Bovell – Drills
One of the fastest men on the planet, George Bovell from Trinidad and Tobago shares some of his favorite drills for improving freestyle, courtesy of The Race Club.
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Guinness “Swim Black”
I’m not very comfortable with having a beer commercial on this site, but the build-up story is just so great that, well, please avert your eyes when we come to the brand :-)
Guinness “Swim Black” from Smoke & Mirrors on Vimeo.
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The Coldest Thing on Coney Island
Enjoy the celebration of thousand of swimmers as they welcomed 2012 with the annual Coney Island Polar Bear Club New Year’s Day Swim. Beware, there is a quite NSFW lady taking the plunge in just ‘tassels and a thong’, having promised to do so if she raised $5000 dollars for a young boy with a rare brain disease. And if you peek (as I know some people other than me who did), dig that man in the yellow cap doing the same, while his son covers his eyes :-)
The Coldest Thing on Coney Island from Hi – Tide Films Inc on Vimeo.
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Speedo Sponsored Rebecca Adlington Q&A session
Via the17thman
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Ellery demonstrating the Angel Wing Stroke
Fantastic :-)
Ellery Swimming II from rob b on Vimeo.
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Achieng Ajulu-Bushell quits swimming
Team GB’s first black female swimmer Achieng Ajulu-Bushell has taken a swipe at the sport’s national governing body for failing to support her while at a plateau in her progress. Widely regarded as one of Britain’s brighest talents, she recently dropped out of British Swimming’s World Class Performance program, and will now turn her attentions on achieving the grades needed to land a place at Oxford University in September. Saying that she would “rather have a first-class degree than an Olympic medal”, and following it up with this scathing remark:
“It is my easiest way of justifying it (not competing at the Games). I haven’t been overly motivated for a year and didn’t get better for two. It is a brutal sport and horrible to go through the plateau when things aren’t going right. There was a huge lack of support for athletes not doing well.
“So many needed attention that it just went against British Swimming’s ethos of this being a long-term sport. But I’m not bitter. I just got to the stage where I got fed up. My stroke was changed and I simply lost rhythm and strength in my legs.”
(And video from when Ajulu-Bushell was 15, she’s now 17)
Via ESPN, see also SwimmingWorld Magazine and The Telegraph