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  • Johnny Weissmuller gets the Groucho treatment on YBYL

    Nov 11, 2011

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    rokur
    in History

    Grin, “You’re not allowed to say Amsterdam on TV”, via the 17thman.

  • Take a swim with the waterproof Fujitsu Arrows F-01D tablet

    Nov 10, 2011

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    rokur
    in Equipment

    Brilliant, 10.1″ 1280 x 800 HD display, Android 3.2 Honeycomb, a 1.0 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor, 1 GB Ram and 16 GB of internal storage with 32 GB being optional. Ready to take into the pool, read WebProNews.

  • Swimming, a passion of Fabien Gilot

    Nov 10, 2011

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    rokur
    in Fun, Nature

    Gee, wish I understood French now.

  • Family of sexually abused 14-year-old sues USA Swimming et at

    Nov 10, 2011

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    rokur
    in Safety

    “The victim, known as Jane Doe, claims that USA Swimming and Indiana Swimming had two opportunities to stop the swim coach before he molested the young female swimmer.” Christopher Wheat was sentenced in September 2010 to eight years in prison and two in community correction programs after he pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual misconduct with a minor and one count of child solicitation, the victim a swimmer on the Lawrence Swim Team where he was head coach and executive director. Read thestarpress.com.

  • UK 2011 Swimming and Diving Intro Video

    Nov 9, 2011

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    rokur
    in Fun, Organization

    OK, University of Kentucky, you win :-)

    UK 2011 Swimming and Diving Intro Video from UK Sports Video on Vimeo.

  • Jay Platt demonstrating his handcuffed, blindfolded and shackled technique

    Nov 9, 2011

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    rokur
    in Open Water

    So it’s already on Friday that Jay Platt will attempt to cross the Mississippi, blindfolded with hands and feets cuffed. Here is a video, and see also the Swim for the Warriors Facebook page, with additional videos and stuff in the lead-up to the swim.

  • Swimming Cup 2009 – remember the supersuits ?

    Nov 9, 2011

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    rokur
    in Fun

    Nice, maybe a bit nostalgic: “It don’t matter, cause cause have never been better. No not ever, life has never been better.” Is that Alexander Dale Oen swimming breaststroke without a bodysuit ?

    Swimming Cup 2009 from Paolo De Matteo on Vimeo.

  • Chloe Sutton: How to make swim practice fun

    Nov 8, 2011

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    rokur
    in Training

    Great blog post here on Universal Sports by Chloe Sutton:

    Coach Rose is very smart and sneaky. He will give us a really hard and seemingly long set, but make it so that if we go really fast, we get out of some of it. One of those sets might be 30×100 on 1:30. He’ll tell us that we can go whatever speed we want on all 30. If we want to go 1:25’s he doesn’t care. BUT, if we go under a time that he gives us on any of them, then that particular 100 counts for 2. If we go 15 of the 100s under the time that Coach gives us, then we’re done. The great part about this set is that he’s giving us a choice and letting us feel like we’re getting out of something. Obviously, we all only want to do 15, so we’ll sprint 15x100s at a really fast time because of the extra motivation, and we feel like it wasn’t that bad because we didn’t have to do 30. My time to beat might be around a 1:04 on sets like these. That sneaky Coach Rose …

  • Capturing surf tricks in bullet time with 30 GoPros

    Nov 8, 2011

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    rokur
    in Fun, Technology

    Timeslice Films and Rip Curl are at it again, freezing surf tricks in Matrix-style “bullet time”, now using an array of 30 GoPro cameras. Via PetaPixel.

    They’ve done it before, then using 52 Canon Rebel DSLR’s. But with the GoPros, the solution is waterproof :-)

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